FOOTBALL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2214, 13 June 1891, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

’ The Darktown (Temnka) .and.-Geraldine Juniors tried coDcliisiflQS lyUh each other on the Geraldine- Domain ,-oq Thursday i afternoun last. JJ. Slonohouse .-captained , the Geraldine team and' Tv Spillsne- tlw . Darklown. Gersldiae woo the toaj,--und; degided to defend the- western- gbal.V 3: Copping: set the ball rolling for’Dark-/*’' * town, and it Was smartly returned"'by C.'Buf ridge, and an' excelleiit g¥fna 6 ensued, in which Geraldine had the heat of scoring five points (1 goal Ah $ tries) to nil. For the’ winnera.Brskina, 1 H. and F. Taylor, ’H. Merrisou.v.A,. M McLean,--C. -Boriidge, .1. .Morrison,. .B. Smith, and B. Stonehonse played well, u while for the losers T. Spillane, J. Copping, J. Tangney, P. McOaskill, B. n O impbell, D. Grant, and _D Morris wers V conspicuous P. McCaskili deserves ’ spi-chl mention for his solendid backing 1 and krill'an*. kicking, . Mr. P.lJtomaon '* umpired for Garaldme ami Mr C. Harding ” for Temmki, Tin U-v. W. 0. Wood ’ c»rried tin leforee’s whistle, and gave his * decsions with equity. It may be only * fair to the Darktown boys to stateitliat B they were ranch lighter than the Geraldine 3 . boy*, .but..nevertheless -.pjaye.d,a plucky * game. J COLONIALS TKMDKA SKOOND, The Junior Flag match Intweeu the a above teams at Temuka-. oa Thursday re* J suited in a win for iho home team by j 5 points to 3. A- great deal of interest , was taken in the match, the Colonials j being r the favorites- At ( five minutes 5 from' lime, bpiog c dled tiie ecorss were } tnAs, Teinjik'a* l°goal, when ' McCaskill, by V look Urn ball , over the Hue and-‘wored, Storey, by a j splendid kick, placed a gi»»i. The Colmmhi now tried hard to iuett-sa• their score but 'he comUinhd|plsy i f the ppposiog forwards proyeuied any-further score, ( and the gome ended in the vidiorsj territory. Want of space prevents us giving J JlLuiofetiicf lof ftrHtfaptyectbsWts &M«l4n the Town Board - Office, Geraldine, on Wednesday evening-last to take into cohsideration the - advisability of rforming a Society for’the' 6f Cruelty to Anfmailk ; iii Hi'e.’Giii&fdim) Hftirfot. 1 *■ The attendance' 'WTis' v bfy ' toaagre’,' cAvibg no doubt, t'ii’Tt* fibl 1 and Mr Alfred White oc cn pio dth6'qhair. An apology for non-attendance‘.from Mr 0. U. Tripp was read, and I Ijp’carman ve*bally..app}pgißed I fpr, v the 7 Ab§ence r j)’f Mr atjuio say. that, .there were people in the district who. kept their cattle on nothing but the lick of a atone, and some farmers- who- worked horses suffering 7- adte' shoUlderH.- 1 r >Bome ; httrtes welrh. not a&iustbofgd To the when 'pat to'it ! were iute to gef sbre l slloufderk,‘ and it l Was dhljr by J keepingthem" nf.it that' they ' would get hardened and'-’aneWteln&f to'ploughing, Tn’Adbh ekaas ak theib thVy codi ld'hardly say that the animal was io poor‘cMid'ition. There were plenty of people who kept horsos'apd cows with about an eighth of an acre to'run on, and they could not get anything Toi eat. They were very-"Wftfcn turned- out -on - the public-roads-for the pickings they.;.-,might.,got there. The poundkeepsr was, continually pounding . .. ... m! ... 1 I v *

cattle, and he believed it paid their owners b‘tt«r to pay for feed than the pound fees, Mr Mundell said that he thought a Society such aa proposed was a very desirable thing. He had noticed for three or four years that numbers of people, kept cattle without Siifiicieot fead to keep them alive. He believed that they did it from sheer ignorance, not knowing what amount of feed was sufficient to keep an animal alive. These poor brutes wore creeping about undefi- their very eyes,'and anyone who had feeHpgs for- dumb animals as for human beingVbe thought it would be neglecting their duty if they did nothing to refiev6-, r .them from suffering. In the large Cities they had moved in this mattei'V and here (in Geraldine) they were possessed of a splendid district for feed, and yet they had to put up with the sight of animals literally starving by inches and kept in the hands Of men who knew no:t ■•boat keeping them. He, therefore, thought it very/ desirable to fi>rio a society in Geraldine, because the police were almost powerless ip the matter# .v vTiiey . ware unable to get a eonviction, without someone outside to assist theißL-'-He very seldom saw horses lathe district Vith sore shoulders. What he objected' to naoatly waß /beeping poor dumb Urnteis pining out" a , miserable existence and the-owners not-knowing that they were starving. He would propose —“.That it is a tery desirable thi'eg to establish ’* a society in Geraldioefjerithe ] porppseipf presenting cruelty to ainim’a I s. “ Mr Robert {Slammand the motion, Which!, was 1 ••carried, ''anJ a com- j miUee, contf stliig , of; Messrs Mundell, Hammou'd, the chairman, *was' sppoifted to.-'vießEWtainr the ■' manner in which. other «societies pee workwjj t|a infoflujatlpp Before la public meeting’ at lys early ,datp.. , A vole of thanks to tha chairman concluded the meeting. 771 m ■ . «■’ tv r t