"We doubt," says a contemporary,"if the Government has effected muchby refusing to let Dr. Mannix land onIrish shores." We agree. What ismost wanted at the moment is that theGovernment should land on Ireland.
We feel that the time is now ripe forsomebody to pop up with the suggestionthat the wet summer has beencaused by the shooting in Belfast.
Manchester City Council has decidedto purchase the famous FreeTrade Hall for the sum of ninetythousand pounds. A thorough searchfor the Sacred Principles of Liberalism,which are said to be concealed somewherein the basement,will be undertaken assoon as the propertychanges hands.
There is no truthin the report thatMr. Lloyd George,after listening to thegrand howl of theWolf Cubs at Olympia,declared that it wasa very tame affair foranyone used to listeningto Mr. Devlin.
"Kangaroos andwallabies," says aColonial journalist,"are about the onlythings that the Australiansportsman canchase." Members ofthe M.C.C. team declarethat they expectto change all that.
Reports that the gold had been removedfrom the Bank of Ireland to thiscountry for the sake of safety have causedconsternation in Dublin. There wasalways a possibility, the Irish say,that the Sinn Feiners might not layhands on the stuff, but there isn't onechance in a hundred of it getting pastSir Eric Geddes.
À propos of the growing reluctanceon the part of railway servants to taketips from holiday-makers, it appearsthat they are merely following theexample set by the higher officials. Wehave positive information that only aweek or so since Sir Eric Geddes flatlyrefused to take a tip from The DailyMail.
While approving in principle of theproposal that the finger-prints of allchildren should be registered, Governmentofficials point out that the expensewould certainly be out of all proportionto the advantage obtained, inview of the prevailing high prices ofjam.
There is just this one consolationabout the weather of late. So far theGovernment have not placed a tax onrain.
"Soldiers are very dissatisfied withthe way in which ex-service men arenow being treated," states a Sundaypaper. We understand that, if this dissatisfactionshould spread, Mr. Churchillmay call upon the Army to resign.
After exhaustive experiments SignorMarconi has failed to obtain any wirelessmessage from Mars. Much anxietyis being felt by those persons havingfriends or mining shares there.
The youngest son of Sir Eric Geddesis learning to play golf. It is hoped bythis plan to keep his mind off thoughtsof a political career.
A reader living in Aberdeen informsus that the last batch of Scotch refugeesarrived from England last Thursday inan exhausted condition.
"Cats are very poor swimmers," statesa writer in a weekly journal. This nodoubt accounts for the exceptionallyhigh infantile mortality among thesedomestic pets.
Last week a wedding at Ibstock,Leicestershire, had to be postponedafter the ceremony had already begun,owing to the failure of the Registrar toappear. It was not until the bestman