The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1883.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 30 April 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1883.

The practice nights of the Greytown Philharmonio Society have been fixed for Weduoaday evenings iu future. The Greytown Plain and Fancy Dress Ball Committee held a meeting oil Friday overling last at the Foresters' Artm Holel, Mr Loasby ocoupied the chair. There were also present Messrs Fuller, Cameron, lltight, and Webster. It was resolved that the Ball be held as usual on the last Thursday in June. Some other ravine business was transacted and the meeting adjourned for three weeks. The frame of the Greytown Police Court was erected on Saturday afternoon, and if it is possible to judge what the building will be like from ilia frame it will not be a very great improvement on the "Id court house which was burued down a few years ago. Gentlemen intending to go by coach from Masterton to the coursing meeting in ihe Lower Valley on May 15th are requested to give in their names to the Hon. Secretary at the Olub Hotel, Masterton, on or before May 12th. The coach will leave Masterton on the 14* h and visitors to the scene are reminded that that (hey will have to provide themselves with blankets. The Taraiahi-Carterton Highway Board contemplate we believe to strike a halfpenny rate this year as against tlio shilling rato on annual values last year. Taking the same nrea the former rate yields £699 16s 9|d and the latter £699 lis fid. The total of rates will, however, amount to £1196 18s BJd the difference being made up by the crown and native rates and by the new Ward that has been added to the Board. The Christchurch railway station was successfully illuminated by electrio light on Saturday, Messrs Lowes & lows add to their list of stock for Wednesday's sale, 100 crossbred ewes, and 50 superior lambs in wool, Mr R. J, Thompson, of Greytown, has purchased the remainder of the Greytown Factory's cheese, about two tons. Mr Colman Phillips' adjourned lecture on the South Sea Islands falls due thin evening. On the first occasion,the lecturer was unfortunate in his choice of a day, on the present one the weather is against him, We sincerely trust, however, that the inclement weather will break before the hour at whioli Mr Phillips is to giye his address, Mr William Cullen has been appointed sole ageni for the Singer Machine Company in this district, and will supply from his depot: all accessories for machines at Wellington catalogue prices. The Masterton Footballers turned ou' in force in Mr G. Dixon's paddock on Saturday afternoon. The team was well represented, only two of its members being absent, and those two unavoidably. The remaining thirteen succeeded in beating twenty-nine all coiners after a tough struggle. .Jamieson's play among the all-comers was very conspicuous, as was that of C. Bannister and several of the Maori players. It is quite gratifying to see that Masterton is aaain waking up to the fact that a good football team can be got together. The passing on Saturday on the part of the backs was a great improvement on that ot a week ago,There is still room for improvement, however. Some pass too soon and othei's wait too long and let themselves get collared.' There is still a great weakness in the backing up.'. If it is want of form let every member of the fiftsen so in this week for training. Too much Btress cannot be laid on the importance of passing and backing-up.. It is just as discouraging for a player running with the ball to find he is not backed up as it is for a player backing up- to find the runner is too selfish to pass.' There was undeniably a good deal' of sticking to the ball on Saturday. Players, if you mean to win matches, " gallery play" will never do it. You may elicit bursts of applause from the multitude with a long run, and you may present the appearance of a martyr, when at the end yon are brought to the earth with the ball under you; but if you wish to gain the admiration of footballers, a judicious pass is. worth more than a dozen yards, and the backing up more than the ,oheers of the spectators! Those wh« don't pass will soonget known, and players won't care to back them up. Let no man play for himself, but all for each other. There are, certainy, times when a long run is the thing, but remember, if you have any doubt of" negotiating" a man, pass the ball. Holmwood will make a good back, and. indeed, the last week has worked wendera on every man behind the sorimmage. Ellors should kick the moment he gets the ball. He ought to make a good three quarter back. After the game the match committee met and picked a team to play at Greytown next Saturday, The fifteen will play ail comers on Wedi nesday, "wet or fine," at i o'clock. Every player ia urgently requested to turn out. As the new uniforms have not yet arrived ' all members having blue or black jerseys are asked to leave them with the • secretary before Saturday next as some of the team have not got the old uniform ' Thefollowingis the Masterton teamfornext I 1 Saturday Messrs Harvey,' McLaohlan, ' Morrison (captain), McKenzie, J, and H. Bannister, B. Perry, S. Wickerson, J. Boss, J, Per;y, DeCastro, F. O'Connor, W. Perry,Hnlmwoi<d,Ellerß, Emergency; . —Back-0, Perry, forwards Jumeson, 0. Bannister. "I am Bpealiing," said a long-winded . orator, " for tho benefit of postority." " Yes," said one of his hearers, " and if you keep on much longer your nudienoe will be here."

■ Ten'lerß.nre invited by Messrs O'Mnlley & Pepperel! for thesupplyof ten thousand: fHoines i delivered. at theßunmahunga bridge. .Specifications and conditions are obtainable at Messrs Rappto' Hare's l store. . The Rev. Mr Morley. ono of the must capable preachers in the Wesleyan connection of this colony preached at, the Miatertoii Church on Sunday morning ttf a large congregation taking for his subject " David ■ the sweat singer of Israel." 1 A speoial meeting of the' Masterton Boroiissh Council will be held this even inc fur confirming tho burse,is list for 1883 84 Anyone who desires to have his imme inserted should call at the Borough i Qffico prior to this meoling when the roll | wdl be sianed and closed. i Thomas Peel the- man who reoeived I such severe injuries at Carterton a short I time ago through a horse bolting with a I trolly on a bush tramway, is about to be removed to the Wellington Hospital. Peel has been ati inmate.of, theGreytown Hospital sincii the accident, and it is at his request thai,the change is being made. It is reported that a detective officer is to be permanently .located in the - Wairarrapa. Judging from' occHsional visitors j from this department we venture to hope ' that the authorities will not forward one of tho Vregulars' but give us instead a sprightly old woman. . ': , [ A man named Spargo was indulging in a litre horse play at a .public house in | Masterton on Saturday evening last when by some means or, another a large vein in bis leg was severed,, and by ihe time medical aid was procured he lost the major portion of the blood'in his body, After the wound' was sewed up by Dr. Beard the sufferer was despatched to the hospital. A meeting of the Coursing Club . was held on Siturday evening at the Oiub Hotel Masierton to make final arrangements for the coursing in the 15ih May. It was arranged that Mr Hume's woolshed should be the camp and that the secretary write to Mr Hume thanking him for the permission he had kindly given to use it. The Greytown Footballers had an excellent praotice on Saturday, although only seven of the first team turned up. There wore twotity-ihree all comers on the ground, and the team played the all comers and beat ihem, scoring two goals and two tries .to one goal and two tries The play of the all comers was greatly admired, and although some of them were mere lads yet they gave an excellent account of themselves, and spoke well for the futuro of football in Greytown. Play was kept up for an hour and a quarter, and the team had to play all thoy knew to win. Another scratch match will be played on Wednesday, commencing at 4 o'clock, The team to play against Mas terton on Saturday next will be published in to morrows' issue.

The principal of the Normal School, Mr 0, 0. Howard, delivered on Saturday the Grst of a course of lectures on the soienoe and art of education. The Hon. Mr Dick, Minister of Education, M.H.R., was ako present, the numerous audience consisting mainly of teachers from the various schools in the Wellington district, including some from Mastertonand Greytown. Admission was by payment for the ooursß of twenty-six lectures. Mr Howard's introductory discourse was an enforcement-of the proposition that teachins; is an art and also a science. Hh treated the subject with the skill and tact of one who has mistered the art »f conveying information and quickening the understanding, insisting strongly on the neces aity lor teachers to avoid long words, and iro the patient training of the minds o' children to accustom them—especially the duller oliildren—to lenrn by little steps what at first may appear too strsiiije ami difficult. The teacher's object he siid, should not be to get through a lessim hut to ensure that the pupil shall understand what is at each lesson, no mutter how little that may be. Mr Howard's practical remarks on the general requirements of successful leaching were frequently applauded, for lie made many " points" whioli told with peculiar force »n the teachers present, and his skill in elocutionary delivery helped to make this opening lecture a success which promise" well ior tbo others to follow.— Times.