THE LATE SHOW. TO THE EDITOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1301, 30 October 1880, Page 3

THE LATE SHOW. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, — I certainly agree with your correspondent " Cambridge Farmer " iv his remarks on the late show at Cambridge, and would like to know with him into what channel the gate money and subscriptions went? If the Farmer's Club is a Public body, in justice to the public the members ought to give an account of expenditure ; if they consider their institution a private one, they ought to feel humiliated and humbled at having to appeal to the public for support.— l am, &c, Pukekimu. " [We think both our correspondents err ' ' in supposing the Farmers' Club to be a private institution. So far as we know it is open to all farmers' at any rate. Ed.]

An Incident of the Old Coaching Days. — a writer in Leisure Sour revives an amusing incident of the old coaching days, thirty-five years ago. 'We were/ he says, ' riding on the top of a coach then running — there was no rail — between Stirling and Dunblane. Sitting next to us wu a Soot, whom an extia allowance of whisky had made something considerably less than canny. We were strangers to the places^— the villages, St. Ninians, &c., through which we were passing. We inquired, however, of our neighbour the name of one spot, and received a heavy dig in the ribs from his elbow, as he exolamed, "Dinnayou ken whaur ye were weel lickit ?" ' • What ?" we exclaimed, and received another dig or elbowing in the ribs, and again the question, " Dinna ye ken whaur ye were well lickit ?" It was his civil way of conveying to us the information that we were unconsciously passing over the field of Bannockburn. liOßoNoxmanby's congratulatory message to the Queen, despatched at 1 o'clock inMelbourne was received at Balmoral before 9 o'clock the same morning, Friday, October Ist, or, strange as it may seem, lour hours before H was sent,