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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 185, 4 September 1878, Page 4

At the banquet given at Dunedin to the Canterbury footballers it was explained that the alleged opposition of the Bank of New Zealand to football was an unauthorised statement, " entirely due to a mistake of the Press " in Auckland. The '• Herald " reports that at the banquet the opinion was freely expressed that the Australian cricketers at Home had degraded cricket by making the game a commercial speculation. This is hardly correct. Such opinion was only expressed by Mr Neilson. The " Star" thus reports the references to the subject :— Mr Neilson referred to the visit of the Australian cricketers to the home country, and declared that their great victories were a fluke.— [Disapprobation.]— while he was willing to admit that there were two or three very good men in the team. He was of opinion that the Australians had degraded cricket by making it a commercial speculation. The Canterbury team, when they visited Australia, would pay their own expenses and would not take one shilling for gate money. Mr Eaker, whose name had been coupled with one of the toasts, assured the company that the sentiments just exgressed by Mr Neilson were not sympathised with or shared in by the cricketers of Canterbury. [Mr Neilson interposed the remark that they were merely bis own opinions.] For himself, he thought the Australians had performed wonders, and far more than he had ever anticipated from the form he had seen them display in Canterbury. They had greatly distinguished themselves at home, and their success was deserving of praise and recognition by all colonists. He concluded by assuring the company that the ideas of Mr Neilson on the subject were not entertained generally in Canterbury. The dinner was a very successful affair, Mr Bathgate occupying the chair. A suggestion made to send a New Zealand team of footballers to Australia was received with considerable enthusiasm. The sort of young women that can be met with on the West Coast may be gathered from the following, which the Times says is strictly correct:— -One who was a little girl in Hokitika and other places, on this portion of the Coast, went away to Reefton. She had reason, on what account it does not matter, to travel to Okarito. Not being largely endowed with this world's goods but having sturdy limbs under her, she walked from Reefton to Hokitika, accomplishing tho journey in such time as few men could do Yesterday she started on foot for Okarito, with a swag on her back weighing between 50 and 60lbs. This tramp is one that few old swagsmen care to undertake, but the plucky girl for she is little over 20 years of age, has every confidence as to overcoming all difficulties and reaching her destination m safety Such instances of female courage and mascularity are rare, and we are sure that our readers will join us in wishing the pedestrian heroine a safe journey. The Wanganui Chronicle of Monday says :— A pretty affair came to light last ! week, it appears that a certain employer of labor brought some men up from the Empire City some little time back, and agreed with them for so much a week and board. They very soon found, however, that nothing supplied to them in that establishment was calculated to tempt dainty or fastidious appetites, and, moreover, that they wero not expected to come again. They possessed their souls in patience, dragging out an existence for a time ; but at length human nature could endure it no longer, and five men and a boy resigned in a body, rather than submit any longer to the slow starvation process. Richard Jewitt, butcher, Shambles, York, informed the York Herald that on slaughtering a fine three-year-oid heifer on hia premises last week he discovered that the animal was possessed of two hearts. They did uofc appear to be conected, but were in immediate proximity to each other, and enclosed m a pericardium, as is usual in the case of a single heart. They were both of average size, aad healthy. .J* l° U i_u Te your childr en s look well to their health, and correct in time any symptoms that betoken approaching sickness. The Aperient Mixture of " Ghollah's Great Indian Cores » is a faithful preparation, and particularly suited to the ailments of children. Yon can get it at any •bhemists . Testimonial.—" The Glen " Caversham, near Dunedin, loth December 1875. Dkar Sir,— With much pleasure I testify to the speedy cure which your Aperient Mixture has effected ou my child aged four years. She having a very distressing cough, troubling her the rno'st in the night, and thereby disturbing her rest, for which we had tried different remedies but without effect ; and -at last, more by way of experiment, we administered your mixture in doses prescribed for children, and I am happy i*?*!' 6 ' after a few doses the COU B Q entirely Jeft her and has not since returned. You are at liberty to publish this if you think proper, as it shows the medicine to be quite a safe one for children.-(Signed> .' J. E, Rojiinson.