Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 154, 25 May 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Winter with its biting blasts (absent in Waimate) is once football, more with us, and the bump of the football is lizard in the parks. Through the keen air come the lusty shouts of the kickists and the game goes merrily on*. Football as a pastime has been the salvation of the British race and the descendants thereof, .It has developed die muscle of the players and strong, diened the throats of the “ barrackers' c and he who comes to sneer and stavs to yell. It has helped on his mournful way the pessimist who collects the returns of the maimed, year by year, and th? sprightly chemist and the genial doctor welcome its yearlyadvent with smothered joy. They have had a very good opening of (he season in IVeilington, five members of one club being now in hospital with idjuvies ranging from a broken small log hone to snch as will engage the earnest attention of the erstwhile player for tins season at least. Auckland, with an equal number of incidents, has done even better. One player received the deep impression of a No. 12 shoe above the oar. A few minutes after a “ dandy scrum ” was finished in time to allow the combined teams to carry out a player whh a broken collar-bone, another with part of ilia frontispiece kicked off. and still another with both hands convulsively clutching a nose which, though issued in one part only, had suddenly been transformed into two. After this “ diversion ” nothing further occurred till a player got into his opponents “ twenty five.” The fifteen men who fell on him afterwards laid him alongside the rest in the ambulance waggon, and the, doctor’s verdict was “concussion of the brain and a crushed collarbone.' 1 Beside the national game the Hritish-Bocr war is very poor reading indeed.

p “ Raly,” said Kilclooi, as he stared in 1 amazement at Manoghne, borough who brought the news, “an , politics, d’ye mane t‘ till me tint t HMiry Mahnz travrlin far p - wather supphly cumpny. Mother o 4 Mawses, an him nrgyin agin ut sins : tha little shindy bechune tha Burra ! Couuslors. Didn he bilong ta tha * pahrti thut curst th’ wather aupphlv 1 uz tha invinshun av tha divil or tha . docthor’s ta waash his ky a rt.” “He , was," said Manoghuo. “An didunt . be knaw thim people as belaved tha town wuz rid in shtrait ta rooin av nt ivir thawt av a schame.” “He did;" said Manoghne, "but I herd it iznt thrue thut heoz bildin houses o i hiz secshuns an tha inshoorancea’ll be riz ivthurz no wather supphly." “ Rfebbo not, said Kiidooi, “ there’s a sight o’ things not thrue in this hurra. Wan ov thim is that tha fourman spinds ’is toime brakin’ stones and clanin’np tha rooads. T’other nite me gurl Judey, wid her noo bnike an’ tha yang fella as constitoots himself her gharjin ayngel at nites-wjis n ridin’ ’long paeeahle loike, admirin’ tha commit, whin all iv a suddint Judey’s jigger give -a boomp and bawch iv thim yvaz imhracin’ muther urth, wid commits in ivery cawner iv tha univnrse, ah’ wards uv pajn an’ anger (as the himbnk sez) in thur months. Tha rawds are in a shnkin’ sluait, an’ be tha powers iv tha Counsil dusn’t kaast its oi round thim occayshunall y, there’ll be thrubble. Tv tha Dook uv Yoeik cum ’long Quano shtreet, sure he’dfhink ’e wus bein’ thranspoorted throo’ tha works iv tha grate electrishian, Tisla. Ivapo yer v/ithir oi lifthT Manoghne, me boy. Give been in this rimnint iv savvige sivilizashiin fur twinty-foive years an’ oi can tell ye there’s goin’ to be sum fun in the near fyoochur. Whin ye want to diskuss tha incongrooities av loife in Woimatty kum to me an’ ye’ll foind oi knaw a. t,brick or too worth knasvin’.” “An 1 phwat div ye think av tha wather supphly, Kdldooi, at ahl at ahl ? ” “ Will, Manogluie, uts this way. Oim a rarin a houncin family iv byes nu gurrls, an whin they git oop in yeers thur’s nuthin fur em but tha groehory, tha phrinter’s divilin. ur tha tindin to tha sohls av tha pooblic’s fate. Av thur was a wather supphly thur’d be iakthries ahtarted an mills wurrkin and tha kinchins ud git a show. Thin thur’s tha quistion av a dhrop av clane wather to wash tha faytures av us an to .diloot out potheen, nivir minshining tha poshibility ay kapin His Majiaty King Favor out av tlja pla a-oe, Thur .ur lasfaina av rasyius wcj, Manoghue tha opjpQhaiDts pi

m 3 yillin abaht Amaroo, witch tha whole pig bald hedid, an wid • 3 f ]X t an sumthin ilse. Times aV panle. Manoghue, that’s agin hin, an wo’ve a good dbrap av here.’'