THE SPILT MILK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2263, 6 April 1886, Page 2

THE SPILT MILK.

TO THE EdITOB. Sib,—Kindly allow me through your valuable columns to confute the statement made in your yesterday's issue' lhattho Salvation band : was the cause of that great; disaster, the upsetting of a'couple of milk cans, and the probable necessitating of your reporter masticating his Sunday morning's breakfast without this household fluid—milk. You are in your remarks no. more than following, the example Bet by older-established journals in the Colony, in allowing the powers of imagination with which' you have been blessed to be exercised against this particular people (the Salvation Army), whet are endeavoring in their peculiar manner to bring about the elevation of the masses. But on this occasion l the qreat master wag in no way the result of the playing of the Army band. The horso in the mili cart was.startled: by the passing of a lad on horseback. As regards the profuse profanity indulged in, I think that it can easily: be accounted for in the fact that inutsal of attending to the

duties. of one who holds with ' reverence 1 :i the Sabbath day, the milkman-v/as going . his rounds while the bells-in the varioui churches were announcing, their eleven ■ o cluck service.' I may state-for your. , ■ information that for the.past .three'years" I ■ between forty and fifty Army bands have . been parading the streets througKouitho ,'■ I - Colony, not a single accident of apy e'en- ••' ous nature has oocurred; Trusting tbnt ■•; in future you wilt base your. conclusionV -'"■ ■•' on facta, and not on the imaginations of a /\\ prejudiced mind, ■ ~lk lam, &c'., '''(■'■VjJP-f' |An eyewitness of the occurrence viiM, firms the correctness, of our statement. No doubt, from "Bandsman's" point '■"'■ o view, aladon horseback is mora likely to scare an old milkhorae than' the shaums, sackbuts, and dulcemas of : tho Army~ED. W.D.] (To the Editor.) Sir.—As country cricketera almost invaribly cavil at tho umpire's : doacision with respect to a ' run out' or being '' ' stumped,'l would ask you to'be kind enough to insert Rules No. 17 and 21, takon from Lilly white's Annual, with '') explanatory notes by James Lillywhite, ' wlioso opinion.on such points ought to satisfy even country cricketers:— 'f ' ' XVII.—Or if .in staking, or at any V ' < >t.her time while the ball shall be in play,'.' both his feet shall not bo over the popping '■■.■ crease and his.wicket; put down, oxcept' i his bat be grounded within it, -Note, Th«' \ , word' over' in this law should read ' not &t |T,' groundedwithh.' Hence the striker 'sjjkJ< l '.' out if his foot is oft the line. '9& "'•,.', XXI,-Or if in running tho wickot. m .'Z struck down by a blow, or by the hand o? arm (with the ball in- hand,) before th» .'''V bat (in hand), or some part of Mb person. ] bo grounded ovor the popping crease. ' -Note. His bat or some part-of'-hia ; , porson must be grounded wiihm thV ' popping crease. On the croaso is, of ~" COUI'BO, out. lam, etc., A TRUE LOVER OF CRICKET.