SPORTING NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4043, 10 February 1876, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES.

Football ha* been played out, and in England a'mania for skating on rollers is bteadily increasing aDd if it continues much longer (s.tyß the London correspondent of the ' Press') two-thirds of the populat on will be on wheels. There is hardly a town in England now without its. skating jink. Brighton has four, and as to London, rinks ure starting up in all direction '. The e araalarm the oountryand the of towns roany private ricks, and " tea and. t-kating at. 4 p.m." is a frequent form of invitation now. Anything that ipossible to a skater <w the ioe cau be achieved with the Plimpton sk kte on asphalte. It is not m re than eighteen months since its introduction amoijrst us, but so -general h.<s the accom pliahme-it become that to oonfess inability to skati; on wheela is an adnrii«pioh as humiliating to a young person ha to ray that lie or she canno* d-inco, A curious question has been decided in the It. M. Court, iNelson. The local 'Times' states that E. J?. Jone-i appeared in answer to a su-nmons; charging him with the deten ion of a silver cup, the property of no onu iu particular. Mr 11. Adams appeared for- the prosecutor ; Mr Fell for the defendant. The factof thi» case are as follows:—The defendant, previous to the last Friendly Soc etie3' Fete, unde took the collection of subscriptions for the purchase of a troi by, to be given under ceiti-in conditions t» the winner of the chain in race. One of th-j stipulationi was that the cup was to be won twice

befo.e it became the actual, property of tho oWu»r. Last year it was won. by Aloran, of Wellington, who left it in charge of the piesjht defendant untl he (Moran) won i. agaiu, or else proved a faster pedes trian. For the past nine months this cup has been a cause of content.on. the Fete Com mittse claim to b»> its custodians, Mr Jones alleges that Mnraai has a prd tem. right of ownership, and to see who was right this ca*e was brought to Court. His Worsnip suggest* d ttat as thee w:vs no fear of defendant failinr to produce the CAip wheu called upon, it should remain in his cliarge until the morning of the Ist o - February,, and then be handed over to the committee * /ho weie appointed to arrange the sport?. 1 lavh to pay his own coat*. . ...

A wajaani a Watheta, J&nsHe, has just po cured her fi'/fch divorce, iter lawyer has u-ti-nmted his w/iUingcegs to enteiiaia a propositi u to take hei •■ cases by yearly contract at reduc.d