Correspondence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 390, 12 September 1874, Page 3

Correspondence.

THE LAWBEM3E CKICKET CLUB.

(To the Editor.)

Sib, What has become of our local Cricket Club ? Ib it defunct ? If " so, surely there is •ufficient enthusiasm am/ragst our young " men to reorganise a permanent club. This noble game ought not to be allowed to die out so ignominously. Strenuous efforts ought to be adopted to resuscitate it. At Clyde and B»lclutha, the valiant Knights of the Willow are endeavoring to reorganise their respective clubi, and why should this district continue to remain somnolent in this respect ? There is a number of followers of this healthful and vigorous recreation in the district who would, if steps were taken in this direction, readily come forward and give their support. — Wicket.

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The American yonng ladies having, it ia said, decided that squinting will be the fashion this winter, are now laboriously cultivating a pecnliarly facinatmg inversion of of the eyes. "Now. my little boys and girls," said a teacher. " I want you to be very still— so still that you,«ould hear a pin drop." For a minute afi was still, until one little boy shrieked ont, "Let her drop." Vermont— where, as is well known, no liquor is sold— has tixteen thousand drunkards, four thousand haibtual "hard drinkers," and twenty thousand young men just begin-ing-to drink. " John," a*id a doting parent to her gormandising son, "do yon really think you can eat the whole of the pudding with impunity ;" "I don't know, ma, M answered the young hoptful Jibuti I gues» I omx with fcipoon."