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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 1 September 1877, Page 2

A correspondent informs us (Rangitiktii "Advocate") that, last Sunday, a spirited contest at football was kept up for an hour between about a dozen navvies and a like number of town denizens m the township of Bulls. This is scarcely a fitting recreation for a Sunday. TheHawke's Bay "Herald" says:— "A: generation which is passing away entrusted its destinies to Mr Stafford and Mr Fox'by turns. The present generation are puzzled to know what they can have seen m either gentleman that induced them to do it." As Others See TJs.— An English paper, thus refers, to this Colony :— " New Zealand must always get a preference, for although it is more distant it feels nearer, being an English Colony ; its climate is like that of the lesser Britain -when the winter has been ' open ' and not Arctic; and, above .all, itreproduces, oddly enoughj -Jhe national andsectarian subdivisions', with' an exactness not witnessed m- Australia or Canada. There are; Scotch, English, and Irish" districts ; theY true-blue Presbyterian may settle down m Otago, aud try to Fancy that Dunedin recalls the smoke catarrhs, as well as the accent of 'Auld Reekie ; ' while the. High Churchman may try Christchurch and Lyttelton. All . shades ! .of Teligion, " however, flourish as amicably "together as . the indigenous * tree; tenia, "and r the middle class Briton feels himself very much at home. Still,* whatever the" choice an intending immigrant may make, it is. much to know that ; he has so good a variety ; and the invitation could hardly come at a fitter time, when de.clining trade and reduced wages are trying to - many .industries. .? i Perhaps, it ; is. - safe to '■. predict that New Zealand will always attain a preferehce^overthe San-fwi_h/lßbnds.'' ' . . What b;vbkcto)ot. says And what does, everybody say?. Wh^, that, as a Btrengthener of theiweak, an invigorant of the organs df- digestion and excretion, a solace for. the aged and decrepit, as a season medicine, a remedy for uterine, kidney and bladder complaints, -a protection against changes of air, water and diet, and an antidote to the consequences of dissipation, laj.e hours and overwork, thatUDOiiPH Woliße's SOH-EDAH iAaOMATIO, SOHWAPPS IS abr solutely matchless. ;;/ "..;