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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 150, 19 July 1888, Page 1

English Footballers' - Opinion of New> Zealand Players. if The captain of the English footballers, interviewed by a Melbourne Herald reporter, gave the following opinion as to the New Zealanders' play : — I' Throughout New Zealand the men, individually, are quite equal to our own players, but they seem to play exactly as we did in England two or three years ago. In ' England tho game is cut so very fine that we have found out all the fine points, and wo utilised our knowledge in New Zealand, aud whilst the players there perhaps take a .couple out of five chances we score four out of th© five. The style of passing the ball in New Zealand is certainly not equal to ours. Their idea of passing is to throw the ball behind without looking where their men are placed.. My opinion of passing is that a man should never pass unless man he passes to is in a better; position than himself, and if he is> charged' he should turn his back towards : the man who does iBO, ,and pass with both hands. I have continually driyen into our fellows the necessity of using both hands. ( The New Zealanders think that-passing with one hand is good enough, , but that is a a mistake. They are' heavy men and good scrimmagers. We do not believe in too .much scrimmaging, and ,try , to make the game Y very fast and open,, and therefore we try to screw ,■ the* scrum in order to get the" baU into the-'iopen. Why should we push through nine men when we can screw the; baU out much quicker, and besides the; play is much prettier, to watch. 'Sometimes a man got the ball, and could a have passed to someone, in a* ; -gpod position to run in, but the man seemed to .-forget that there were., fourteen .other men on his .side, and hi8;8ole idea was to score a try, and every thing else went out of his 1 head _, except the idea of crossing the line. In j our team the men play to each oth!er,-.and pass at, the proper oppor- . tunities. Perhaps the New/ Zealanders are a little better at scrimmaging } than we are." M. Faye, the Paris astronomer, has just read an interesting' communication - at \ the. Academy of /Science, which gives some curious — and -- startling information concerning the V Men, 4 in Mars." The author of. that commumca* tion .is M; Perrotin, of the Observatory; This, gentlemen brought a powerful glass to bear on the planet, and from what he saw it appears that Mars is not only in* habited by men but by most skilful and energetic canal cutlers and engineers^ who put M de Lesseps and his fellows [ piercers of isthmuses;' in back seats." Astronomers have already called the lines going from sea to sea on the surf ace of Mars *"canals, " but M. Perrotin says that some of these, waterways are, like the Panama project, still unfinished. Archdeacon Farrar suggests 'meeting the questions of infidelity with harder ■ questions; To most of the points raised by: sceptics Christendom ■•■ trahkly reii sponds, "I- do not know." Now let the ' tables vbe^turned- -Where did matter come from P Can. a dead thing create ' itself 'P Where did 'motion come from, savey-the finger-tip of Omnipotence? .Whence "came >the exquisite "order and ■ design of . Nature P If anyone told-you^ that millions of printers* : types, should fortuitously shape them* - .selyes into the divine comedy of -Dant-j f or -the plays of.* Shakespeare, would you. * not think him ajmadmah ? Whehce^came-' consciousness P V\ ho gave you free will ? IN THK EXCHANGE LAND AND MERCANTILE AUCTION, ROOMS Mannebs-street, Wellington. ON FRIDAY, 20th JULY, 1888,^ 'At 11 o'clock a.m. IMPORTANT -ABSOLUTE SALE OF UNRIVALLED COUNTRY PROPERTIES. To close partnership accounts of Messrs Harcourt and Co. T KENNEDY MACDONALD & • GO are" favored with instruc- ' tions from Chas. Dunckley, Esq., to sell by publib auction, on the above date, in order to close tbe partnership accounts - of Messrs Harcourt & Co. — - THE FOLLOWING AMONGST OTHER PROPERTIES :— Palmerston North. Lot 13. — The residence in Firzherberfc . street, Palmerston North, occupied by the Mayor, M r West, erected on town section 1063. . -The section cbhr tains 1 acre, and the residence has 7 rooms, stable, cow house, &c, with j well stocked and planted garden | and grounds. Lot 14. — Town .section 1065, adjoining lot 13, containing 1 acre, Feilding. Lot 15— Section 505, Gladstone street, Feilding ; acre, with 4- roomed house, let at 6s per week Lot 16 -Section 71, Makino road ; 1 acre, with 4»roomed house, let at 4a — per week 5 Lot 17-,- Section 40, Queen street, with, ; 4»rooined house, let at 5s per week Lot 18— Section 524, East street; 1 rood 29 perches. Lots 19 to 24 — Five allotments of section 103 ; each 44ft to Manchester street, by a depth of 132 ft .' !Pox;To2sr. Lot 25 — Section- 50 on the plan of the '. township, with.large store and dwelling (known as occupied by Mr McMillan), two cottages, and a chapel^ : all erected on land half an acre - < Lot 26- Part of section 88, with residence 1 | | thereon known asDr Barber's property; Lot 27; — Allotments 10 to 15 of section 87 havingeach frontages to Gross road Lot 28. — Allotments 1, 2, and 3 of sec« tion 88, and situated at the corner of " \iain road and Cross street Lot 29.- -Allotments 23, 24, and 25 of; section 88, fronting Public road and Crossroad. Lot-30 ; — Allotments 38 and 35 of section 88, fronting Cross ro-id i For full details, plans, &c, apply to T T. KENNEDY MACDONALD & CO., i Auctioneers Wellington, ;/