The New Zealand Football Team.

Free Lance, Volume VI, Issue 269, 26 August 1905, Page 16

The New Zealand Football Team.

(By "Toiuchline.")

Just as the Free Lance is goiing to press the New Zealand' team to play against the Australians at Dunedmn on Saturday, the 2nd September, is available. It is as follows : — Full-back. Turtill (Canterbury)., , Thxee-q<uarteirs ; Gcilray (Dunedin), Mackenzie (Auckland), and Bennett (Ot^go), or McPterson (Otago). Five-eighths: Smith (Nelson) and Wrigley (Wairarapa). Half: Burgess (Southland). Forwards: Dodd, Watkins, Gross, Spencer (Wellington), Francis (Auckland 1 * E. and C. Purdue (Southland). Winig-forward : Aroh. MoMinn (Manawatu). The team is a good one, and! as bound to give satisfaction. As far as Wellington is concerned, the backbome of the forward division is dirawn from ' tihe local scrummfhg brigade, and the; quartette chosen are well worth their places. I must, however, express a feeling of ddisappodaitment that Wiight has not caught the selectors' eyes — perhaps it was too miuch to expect to giet the whole fire in. , The wing-forward surp'rases me — I lan,<jied this posatdon was a certainty 'for 1 W. T*yl cT J the Auoklander, whom oriticis have declared' to be even a better man t3ban Grallaher, the captain of the New Zealand team now on tottr. We all have our own opinions, but in tnis instance the selectors seem to me to have got together a fine seven. Personally, I would have preferred! Logan (Wairarapa.) to Burgess at balf-baok, but the Tatter's showing against the New Zealand team in the Otagoi — New Zealand match was said to be good enough to give him a place in the Home team.

Smith, and Wrigley have both played in the three-quarter line m games they have taken part in in Wellington. Some of us think the latter a marvel, but from what is known, I would! personally have preferred Ward (Hawke's Bay) to Smith.

The Wellington Kennel Club wants you to go along and see the dogia — the farthtul fi lends oi man. The show takes pliaoe on Wednesday and Thursday next, judging to begin at 9.30. This will be the nineteenth show the dub has held, and Hi® Excellency the Governor is going along to open it. Included in the list of exhibitors are. Mass May Seddon, Mrs. A. E. Kernot, Sir Joseph W>ard, and Mr. F. Dyer, and fanciers from all parts of New Zealand. Two notable exhibits in the show will be an Esquimo dag, born near the South Pole when the Discovery was looking for it, the property of Sir Joseph Ward. Miss Beere will have on exhibition her quartette of recently-imported) King Charles amd Japanese spaniels. Challenge prizes are to be given) for roughooated collies, cocker spaniels, fox-ter-riers, and the King of England's fiavourite — Irish terriers. There are also large entries of most other breeds.

Eight hundred seats, at 5s <a seat, were booked for one night of the Tittell Brune show ait. Palmerston North. It is a record. • • * George Tacius, the British woman Impersonator, siings as a baritone or a soprano at will. He is said to have a range of three octaves. • • • It is rumoured that the owners of thle Ghristehurch Theatre Royal are asking the Christ chuircih Oity Council £18,000 for the property. It is estimated that vaudeville in New York employs 26,000,000 dollars, costs 500,000 dollars a week, and draws 1,000,000 dollars a week. • * * The Royal Comic Opera Company will most likely get round to us again next year, and give us "The Orchid," "The Cingalee," and "Veronique." • • * Gracde Warner, a mere novice when here with her father sixteen or seventeen years ago, is now touring Great Britain with her own company in "The Scarlet Clue." • • • Rose Aguinaldo, the pretty and youthful Klipino contortionist, here with Mtzgeralds' circus about five years ago, died in America reoently from cerebroepinal meningitis. • • • Singer and actress 3>ecima Moore is about to marry Major Guggisberg, a Royal Engineer officer, and director of surveys in the "white man's grave" country — Gold Coast. • * * Melba's golden notes. She sang four Bongs for Waldorf Astor, the American millionaire. Astor asked) her to be good l enough to hook on to a thousand pounds' worth of greenbacks. • ♦ * Rather quaint Magistrate's Court summons item from "Evening Post" : — "Alfred Parish v. Roy Redgrave, £8 (order for immediate execution)." It would be ia pity were so talented an actor to die so young. "Are you fond of music?" a friend asked the young man who was applauding vigorously at the concert, after a girl had sung in a veny painful way. "Not particularly," replied the young man frankly, "but I'm awfully fond of the musician.." * * * "The Midnight Mail," put on. ia Sydney by William, Anderson., burst its boiler, or something, on© recent night, and burnt Mr. George Cross severely. He piuokily finished the act, but was so seared that lie appeared on. subsequent nights unpainted, his face being too sore for the application of pigments. ouxry toia. ox d. long-naured 1 eaucoiusuas r D Who took a reiauve ne naoiati tseen toi yeius> to lieai a Watgxier operd.. ■'JJoet>n'& tdxub giouiouo sounu. «*ttt>CD you t he asked. "Well, no!"*aiial tin© onmer. "lou see, i<xr six yed-rs 1 wa& ctoeit engineer at a boaier-shop, an<l lately Ive been battery-maniager on a lou-fctamper piantl' - * * Madiame Patti has been, in court aid on account oi neu* cook. baad oook was kissed by tne butler, agaunst her will, and a policeman who saw the act woula not dieiend her, so both mem got sued. Patti wat> cauled by tue cook to give evidlenice. The butler had to pay £39 for the ikies, and the poiioemian 10& for neglect of duty. w * * Miss Manon Teirry reminasiceaiices : — "lake aili actresses, 1 receive many lettears from unknown people. One night I received an xll-written, ill-spelt, anonymous letter, enclosing some very complementary, but at the same time very indifferent, poetry xn my hoaiour. In the letter my unknown admarer stated that ne would like to , speak to me, but that he felt be dlared not. Would I, however, on leaving the stage door after the performance cadi out 'Goodnilghtl' just to show that I had received his letter and verses, and! was not offended by them or V™m- 'You will know me,' he added, 'because I shall be cracking nutsl'" * * * A writer of transpontine melodlrama {aays "Pasquin")'once pleaded! thus to a theatrical manager : "I have written in eceaies on a racecourse, in a pawnshop, in a gambling saloon, on the deck of a man-of-war, and on a railway line before the arrival of the 4.50 down express. I have written a pleading scene and a night-mare scene for the heroine, a boxing scene and a prison scene for the hero, a kitchem scene and 1 a rescue scene for the honest low comedian, and abdhionion, poison, and! suicide scenes for the villain. But must there, dear boy" — info voice broke with emotion — "must there be a murder in each act ?" The manager was deeply moved. He nut has hand on the author's shoulder. "It breaks my heart to/ say it," he replied, "but there must, dear boy, there must."