The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, l886. FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2393, 7 September 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1886. FOOTBALL.

A football craze has .possessed Masterton for the past day or two. Old and young, rich and poor, oue with another, have thought and talked of little else than football. Business has been Biißpended for football, and the large concourse of people who devoted yesterday to the contemplation of the game may find it difficult to justify the enthusiam which this manly sport evokea. Tho cost of yesterday's match with the Sydney men was a broken leg and a fractured collarbone, and the question may well be asked whether such a game is worth such a candle J On the whole we aro disposed to consider that it in, Broken bones are bad

things, but they grow together again, and there are worse evils in the world

than fractorea. When the Wairarapa team met the athletes of Now South Wales iu the football field it was gratifying to notice that in strength, endurance, and pluck thoy were a match for their opponents. The trial which brought out these qualities was a severe one, but we beliove thoroughly in the development of manly characteristics,, and we hare to thank football for doing good work in this direction, It was interesting to notice yesterday that the man with the broken leg and his comrade with the broken collar bone refused to leave the field till the match wag concluded.' If they could no longer take part in tho struggle themselves they must at'leist witness it, and so the plucky pair ignored .their own sufferings and thought of nothing but the issue of the contest.; There are hard,knocks in store for .those who take a liking for football, but on the other hand it is evident that football turns out some fine fellows, men with real "grit" in thorn, and for this reason we must not grumble if the cost of it is an Occasional fracture.;, Qn the whole, it is a more healthy'and lets dangerons amusement thai h6rw' ; kcing, and we : sheald neglected; ? iti* this district. Football, too, has a; federating tendenoy. Much haa beoa and written of late about

federation, but tlie real; steps .'Which lead 'uj) to genuine are intercolonial matchee : like that ofyea-. terday, where young menfromSydriey scrape an intimacy' with the young men of New Zealand and interchange experiences. ■ 4 ' .

The Masterton match of tho Wairarapa Gun Club takes place on Thurnday, September 23rd,

Tendors close to;day {or a i twelve months Bupply of timber for the Borough Council. ■;

Tenders for formation and metalling 49-chains Gladstone road, close; lit the Borough Council Chambors this Evening. We remind those interested of the. mooting of tho Gospel Tomperancfe Union at tho Presbyterian Church this evening,

\Yc have received a copy of the N;Z, Presbyterian for September. As usual it contains a deal of useful information, secular and roligious, Mossrs Lowes and lorns hold their yegular fortnightly sale of stock at their Mastorton yards, Kenall street. Their .catalogue will be found in another column. Mr David Heggie is this. aoaion travelling Daniel O'Connoll and Laird 0' Larpo, tho former a woll known thoroughbred and the latter a purobred Clydesdale. Both horses are well and favorably known in the Wairarapa district. Particulars of' their pedigree, &c., are given in another column.

Messrs C. Pownall & Co., mortgage agents, Wellington, notify in- their advertisement to-day that money is on the rise, the rato of interest for bubib above £6OO being from* 7to 7$ per cent, They havo for investment £20,000 to arrive by incoming mail from England, and advise intending borrowers to apply early, It is now denied that anything was efor amiss with Trenton, who has recovered his position in the Melbourne Cup betting.

A correspondent suggests that step ß should be taken at an early date to form a swimming club. He recommends that the captain of the cadet corpshould undertake the initiation of ayouth'a club. There is along stretch of deep water in the Waipoua river just about a mile out of town that might be leased for the club. At a meeting of the shooting Committee of the Masterton Rifles held last evening it was derided to fire a match against Carterion' on Saturday the 11th inst, The team to represent Masterton will be chosen from the following Captain Donald, Sergeant Matthews, Sergeant Kibblewhite, Corpl, McLachlan, Vol., C. Bently, G. Bently, Kummer, Hoffiens, W. Welch, R. McKenao, Ankotell, and W, A, Wilton. Referee, Liout. Thomp-' son. The team will leave Masterton by the 10 o'clock train, and are requested to meet for practice on Thursday at 1 o'clock p.m.

The Ainborloy correspondent of the Chrißtchurch Press writes that two boys, named Koch and Dempsey, had a narrow escape from drowning while attempting to cross the North Kowai tho other evening in a spring cart, tho cart being washed down the river and capsizod. A man, named Borham, very pluekily rode in, but his horse being washed from undor 'him he got out with great difficulty, Constable Nestor then rode in and got hold of the boys and put them on his horse, Nestor then went down the stream andhad a very narrow escape, but managed to get hold of the trap horse and get out. Great paaise is due to Borham and Constable Nestor for the plucky way they acted.

There has been a little flutter in the world of steam propulsion of lato by the proposal to build a ship which would steam 40 miles an hour, and cross tho Atlantic in say, threo days. Wo have not seen the original proposal, but understand that the idea was that the ship should be 440 feet long, 48 feet broad, and 25 feet draught, with a displacement of 33(i0 tons. It is assumed that 36,000 I.H.P. would drivo such a ship 43.5 knots per hour, It is furthor proposed that the machineiy should be of tho fast steam-launch type-quiok-running and light. It haj boon calculated that 001b per I.H.P. is sufficient to allow for woight of boilers and machinery.' If this iB correct the weight would bo about 100Q tons, The machinery, .we presume, would havo to be worked under somewhat similar conditions as that of the fast steam launches; and putting the coal consumption at 31b per I.H.P. about 3400 tons of coal would be. required for threo days' steamiug, or more than double what tho ship could carry on the displacement givon; but of courso she would, under anv circumstances, have to start loadod down considerably below her normal draught, or othoswise sho would be " flying light" long before she rot into port. The feasibility of the scheme has been much contested, but it Bhould bo stated that Mr W. H. White (chief constructor) in his woll-known work of Naval Architecture, gives-countenance to the scheme, as to the possibility of using extremely quick and light running machinery under certain conditions, but of courso he is fully alive to the difficulty of running Bteam launch' machinery at the maximum speod for long distances,— Field, •

liven in China's high places Christianity is being riceivod favorably. The Foreign Missionary for April gives an account of a remarkable movement among the inmates of Prince Kung's palnco. No one has moro influential connections than Prince Kung. He is the son of the Emporiir Tao-Kwang who reigned 1821 - 1851, brother of the Emperor Hien-Feng 185118G2, undo of the last emperor T'umrChe 1862-1875, and tho present Emperor Kwang-Su. For nearly 25 years he was. practically at tho head of the empire. Ttfo or three years ago, one of Princo Kung'B house —an attendant on the Princo's favorite wife—became a rogulaf attendant at the first Presbyterian Church at Pekin, which is not far from the palace, and aoon it 1 came under the notice of the Princo that sho believed in the new doctrine. But the Prince declined to interfere with her in relig'ous matters, only requiring that the peace of tho palace shouldj, not be disturbed. "Encouraged by this generous treatment Madame Hsiao ventured to present her books to her mistress, who accepted and read thom with strong impressions of -their truth. Their contents soon became tho subject of earnest discussion with others, and the result was that ere long twelve of tho inmates of the palace avowed their rejection of idolatry, and acceptance of the Christian religion as true. And these twelve were accustomed, it is said, to meet together for Christian worship on the Sabbath day. Such was was the oncouraging report when the writer left Peking last July. Later., advices state that the twelve havo increased to thj{ty.one."-N.Z. Presbyterian. ■

•Anyone requiring New Zealand Tweed Uothrng will Bare monoy by purahaaimr at the Wo'rmia Cl°thlng Factory, for their suits at 19« M, 2fy, Sh M, 45s and 60s, and Mongers and 12a 6d, and trousers at 5s MarebopeatirwortyouMs.fte money. Note r -{n#iAOTT. v "■ .y, Y>' rot ■C6itain. •iinM during &o'noj£ ninths, M|'ihe preient' tjnw f wdV()iteoo|»t» at »nter.wjwh in jthe Wei- ■ Uapon the: rtqwrein 'ilteybu eaa be* wpnhed - wjtli a .grand 'Twcadiaaemtoah for, 2?/6, hoßoaUy worth. £3/.t Give me a trial i John TiioßiiyßN, the Peoplo's CSotbiep, Mli 6 :' tfeet Wdlliiwtoa.-rfAn.Tl,' . jj

ThoMnsteHou. Boro.ugh Council meet this.evon.irig,

Messrs-Williams and Barkw invito ten-, ders for shingles. The'third term of thp' girls' ojgh School, Wellington, will begin on Friday, 17 th September. • Tenders are invited by Mr G. Fannin, architect, for the erection of a shop and dvrelling in Queen ab^edt. . Messrs 0. Smith and Co.. cash drapers of Queen Street,' announce th:it this is the last week of their clearing sale. The uaual weekly danc'fc of the private Quadrille Assembly takes place to-morrow evening in the Theatre 'Royal, when the Volunteer Band will supply the music. The New Zealand Times, in concluding a very interesting account of the football match played here yesterday, says:— " The Australians had been warned to anticipate rough play, but to the credit of the Wairarnpa men there was nothing of the Borfc to be Been,"

A meeting of the Wairarapa Shearers' Committee was held on Saturday evening last, whon it was decided to hold a general meeting on Saturday, 18th inat, A letter was read from the flawkes Bay shearers, wh'o wore bound to . cliarge £1 per 100 for shearing under a.penalty of £5. A favorable reply was also received from the East Coast shearers.'

A somewhat alarming accident is reported in the New Zealand .Times as having happened upon the Government railway this morning; So far as we can learn, it appears that the ongine which conveyed the special train yesterday with the New South Wales footballors was returning to town when it-came into contact with a trolly hurling it, and Mr Quilice, who was riding upon it, down an embankment. Mr Quilice was conveyed into town to his brother's house in Grant road, Dr. Cole was then sent for, and we believe that gentleman states that two of the patient's upper ribs are broken upon the right side in front of- the chest. The man is very much cut and bruised about the right side of the-head and fade, and body; Dr Cule is of opinion that though badly injured, the patient will make a good recovery.