ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 216, 19 September 1901, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

No fewer than seventeen exhibits o! * tgricoltor*! horses, cittle, and iheep vera entered by Bis Maj any the King at the aana il exhibition of the Royal lale of Wight Agricaltaral Society at Newport, aid be succeeded in winning (our champic-n priz<3s, in addition to five firata »nd five seconds. The Btv. Mr Chandler, preaching at the Oav-'rsham Baptist Obnreh, Dungttiiij condemned the action of the anthrrities of the Ot»go Football Asroctationon bbe manner of tbeir entertainment of the Aucklai d Association team. He said th'fc he wis not so Puritanic as to condemn manly physical recreation, but here was wh»t might bit a pare helpfnl lecreation bdog dragged down in such a way that the sympathies of Ohristiaa young men vonld he alienated. One night the t«m were taken to a music halt, on abotbeHo the the*' r?, and thm to a p : CDic on the lord's D*y, thus enconragiig the desecration r.f the Sabbath iy roeri•worldly cireless pes sore. It t h».re were any Christian y.aog men ia th» teams, as be belie»nl there weie, it wai only th m to evi!, and giv-| ing them a di>ls>ix for Christian wor•bip and work Tbey were devckpinjj j unscle at the expense cf cbut aner, i A good story is told (f M'a Wool'ey I wife of tbo prohibition ota or at pre■ent tbn colony. A 'a iy op Wellington w-y whi had tSs khaki fiver *ery tidy, was descanting t" Mrß Wcolley at a gteat rate on the •plend d qualities of tb» British bdldiers Au thit tbe refit i f tb« < o.upany coa'd do was liiten " flow do yo» socoon , Mrs Wo ■ll«-y,''she utk H,''for the Kngiis'i io«lU'»b trig *o much batter t'iun the American ones?" "Well," rep'ied the 'Markan lady. « yon see, i'.'s like this our American •oldiera haven't bad a greet deal ef Experience fiii.ee tie War of Indeprn !- «ace "!—Tableau!