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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1334, 26 July 1883, Page 3

Mr C. J, Jeesel has been made a baronet in rebognitiou of the sterling merits of his father, the late Sir George Jeasel, as a lawyer and a Judge, Sir George Jessel was the first Hebrew who ever sat upon the English Bench of Judges. During the two years of his Solicitor-Generalship Sir George took upwards of £44,000 in fees. The Lancet condemns the way in which football is at present played, although in doing so it does not object to wholesome athleticism. It wishes to see the game purged of its rough and dangerous elements and made one of skill, and one in which the weaker members of the community may join on equal terms with the strong and powerful, Kicks and blows ought to be expended on the ball, and not on the shine and bodies of opponents ; collaring, hacking, and scrimmaging ought to be abolished, and more scops given for the development of the finer qualities of the grace in the direction of speed, dixterity, and finesse.