ALFREDTON GOSSIP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2602, 19 May 1887, Page 2

ALFREDTON GOSSIP.

Great guns! What a rumpus they make in Alfredtofoabout their cricket Club, I think, Mr Editor, that you and your readers will be sick of hearing about the Alfredtori cricket club. In your Daily of the sth inst. I see a few more notes from your , correspondent defending his famous olab. He accuses mo of writing spitefully and being more personal. lam not aw u'o that I havo either written personally or spitefully. At any rate he has not pointed it out in Ins elaborate production, He goes on to, state that I was allowed to look oh at the last match. This is pretty rich, since I was invited by a member of the committee to go and see the scientific play of the Alfredton cricket dub, and lastly to him about cripket, lam not a member of the Alfredfcon cricket club, and that he has gone astray in search of Cyolopa, In your Daily' of tho 7th inst., I see another letter by Mr Dunderdalo, the hon: secretary Alfrodton Cricket Club, which runs something in the same tone as your correspondent, wliioh I do not wonder, at, since birds of a feather'llock togfi: ther, i.e., your correspondent and the hon. secretary of the Alfredtoh criflkot club come from the same "nest, and I give to him the same auawer as your correspondent, and, in reply to his challenge, I would advise him to have a good look at himself, and then at gome' of the .other- mombere, but then I doubt if hp will- be able to find a substitute for himself, for with )}i? eyes he caunot be exposed to bo ajuifge, lam glad to find that bp has the caudour f.o/acknowledge ihe Club's weakness and I think ho ha* written more bitterly against it than! have, although perhaps ho will fail to see this. ■

Alas ! Poor little giant that.l .am.. lam about to bo swallowed up with good advice from your correspondent, and the Seoretary of tbo CncKot Club. What can a littlo ouo-eyod giant eoe in comparison to tbo six eyes of your Correspondent invl • the .occretajy of tbo Alfred ton Crickot Club. ; I seem to bo a little one oyod nuisance always poking my noso in the way. of what is now ctillod the 41fyedton clique. 'Jbe Alfredtop clitjnp is composed a few persona wlw vosidp in, a oqrtain coi'iicr of Alfrcdton, now famous fop tbo patches of improved waste lands lying near to the farms otindwtriow settlers and which patohes havo boon shut up by a few settlors, muoli to tbo detriment of others, and as I believe are much coveted by the Alfredton clique, although I am informed aud verily believe tlioy oannot purchase the same on account of their; possessing the limited area of laud. And now, after monopolising these patches for a number of years, it is natural he or they do not like to part with them. Dicta est, habit is a second nature and in this instance it is verified. So the only thing this clique can do is to play " dog in the manger" by claiming compensation for improvements they never made. There is one little matter I was about to forgot, and that is, your correspondent's accusation about me being the head of .gossipers, J must inform himthat unlike him, I stand} in my own shoe's and Jook through iny eye at all that is going pi]. I'must conclude, as Ihave taken up too much of your valuable space already. • I'will give you something mors interesting in my next, .. Cyclops.