BOWLING

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 561, 3 November 1902, Page 3

BOWLING

At the Bowling Green on Saturday, tho following games wero played : Birss Massey Willoek Lewis Dixon Ferrri McGowan (skip) 21 Quigley (skip) 15 Hescott Witty Harris Collige Simson Gaudin Buttle (skip) 11 Bright (skip) 27 Matthewson Willoek Skeet (skip) 12 Nasmith (skip) 20

A mooting of the Gisborne Committee will be held to-day to make arrangements for the BennaDt matches, which are to be commenced on Thursday, when Gisborne meets Whataupoko. The latter Club will this year put two strong rinks into the field, and are likely to retain the Pennant, of which they are at present the proud possessors.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph, in ic-

ferring to the reception of .Sir Edmund Barton, .says:—'l he most extraordinary kind of welcome that a public man could receive who lias been entrusted with a great mission, and has returned to give a statement of its results, _ was accorded to Sir Edmund Barton. The 'Town Hall was densely packed. Until the advertised hour,

the meeting was excmplarily quiet, 'lhe entrance of several prominent politicians was the signal for a break in the harmony. Generally the receptions were cordial until Federal Ministers came to the front of the platform “ I am not here to talk to these enemies of the Empire.” exclaimed .Sir Edmund Barton at one stage of his address. “ When the disloyalists have ceased,” he continued, “ I will go on.’ At, another stage he alluded to the disturbers as traitors, and afterwards de-

nounced them as “ hired ruffian*. ’ “ If there is one thing.more than another which shows the character of the anarchist and the disloyalist it is on the occasion of welcoming their representative an occasion calling for me two attributes of loyalty to the Old Country and loyalty to his own,” ne said. Every one of these references was greeted with a storm of bowl*, and other established forms of energe-tically-expressed disapprobation. fciir Sir Edmund Barton has not the knack of handling a big audience. He was

in the face of a great meeting containing a strong minority of dissentient*. This minority he roused, not exactly to anger—for the meeting all througn was good-humored—hut to simple boi.sterousness. Federal Ministers have kept themselves so distinctly,- aioei from Sydney gatherings to which the ordinary elector could have access that the hostility and uproar were not perhaps an outburst of disapproval at the actual results of the mission to England as an indication of dissatisfaction with the general policy, of the Government.

It is said that even Mr Seddon failed to draw a satisfactory crowd when he landed at Auckland, and that his speeches in the North were a little ponderous. A reaction has set m against Iffy Imperialistic gag; but ptobably as soon as he discovers that this card is played out-, he will drop it and lead another. Already he has intimated that he has a good thing for the colony in the shape of half a million acres of native land ; hut why, oh why, have the Government _ kept this territory tied up in a napkin so long.—Wairarapa Times.