Strong Writing.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3167, 30 March 1889, Page 3

Strong Writing.

Under the flaming heading " Bas ball in the bush' the Boston Mm trated Police News sots out to write lot of iguorant muck about the terror of the tour of the Yunkeo basebal players in Australia, They talk (say the Sydney Referee) about beuiglitei antipodeans! How iufinitely uiof benighted i'n the dense clouds of hi own ignorance must the writar o such vapid twaddle be. To read th would-be witty rubbish, one rfouli imagine that Australia was a w li country peopled by wild niggers. Tin fact is, that Americans think basebal the only game on earth worth playing abuse aud revile football, and ridiculi cricket. They thing the players thi roily people on earth, and that all tin world should'bow down and worshij ihem. We found them big, strapping Mugh professionals, with few oxcep aons, and with extraordinary larg< r eet, without exception. We fount ihat there game was an improveincnl >n.the old English game of rounders, mly the batsman had not a tentli iart of as good a chance of hitting he ball, or scoring when he did. Wt leard them curse and bully the nnpire every time he gave a decision bid while quite willing, and eveu nxious to give Spucling a show, wo rere perfectly satisfied from the first hat baseball would never catch n here. Mr Spalding " copped the eedle" in Melbourne because the apers called basebell by its original ame of" rounders"; and carefully craping off the dust of Australia torn his team's number thirteens, he ook them over to Australia to face lie terrors of the jungle there after ho hair-breadth 'scapes of being aten by a wallaby, stung by a worniat, torn limb from limb by an infurited waddy-womerab, or fatally loisoued by an ah-ba-bla-coolibah lore. Same 'om alive poor sufferng lambs! This is what the News erves up:—" Baseball in the bush! ]he American national gamo played ly its ablest exponents before the iiishmen and kangaroos of Australia, Celly the beauty; Anson the irreiressible; Ward the intellectual; "feffer the statuesque; Bums the ady-killer; Kyan, the Adonis of entrefield! What a wealth of brains, nanly beauty, and atblctio talent, is 0 be lavished by Manager Spalding >n the hitherto benighted Antipoeans I What a time the hoys will lave I They will bo in danger from he aggressive female population, .'ravellers who have traversed the rilds of Australia say that one of the avorito ways of expressing love iractised by the dark-skinned but ntensely affectionate maiden oi the msli is to offer her accepted lover as , toothsome titbit to her cannibalistic hicftain father, Tho Chicago Mail onsiders that it is odds that Tommy Jums will never return and hat some aboriginal princess will get 1 struck" on him, and she will make lira a royal dude in her father's ialls, as it were. He will wear ingsin his nose, and, clothed in a locklaco and his royal dignity, he /ill act as umpire at all the games /Inch lie will get up and run for his oyal pleasure. The Australian aethodof 'making a mash' is for he young man to select some likely oung woman, chase her till he overakes her, and then, after choking tor into insensibility, carry her oil' to lis cave. This is somewhat differnt to the Chicago style, and the ioys will feel rather sore if they find hemselves compelled to use violent aeasures instead of the insinuating Ah, there' which captures the coy amsel in tho jungles of West Wadian street, in Chicago. Sam Moron, of Chicago, is said to have a reat scheme which he and Ed. Villiamson have ipicd very havd to eep quiet, Sara has given Ed. arte blanche to sign eleven fullrown kangaroos for next seasou, to ake the place of the Maroons in the Vesteru Association. Sam says he 3 sure they would be better tailnders than the Maroons wero, and lis only fur ij that they might allow their natural inclinations and ump their contracts. The same uggestion is thrown out without xtra coet to Washington and ndianapolis, The Chicagoes will irobably 'obtain a bushman orphan nd bring him back as a mascot for 889,' and they will make'a determined effort to ohango their luck,"

Fighting Jonathan, Alexander, who was in Picton's roglmont at Quatro Bras, has just diod at Edinburgh, Ho was also one of tho guards of Napoleon at St Helena. The latest American fashion fad is to woar stockings with the wearers monogram embroidered on tho instep. ._ The mpno»rains are in all colours and in all k'jlds of Materials: Ipcosta two dollars to have' a Wlettor iupnpgraii) worked on a pair, Tho Freo Prosbytory of Umnbartno has sanctioned tho acceptance byjtho Rev Mr Koberston, of Stralhbkno, of an appointmont in New Zoaland. Mr Joseph ChamberUin has nine ■orchid houses joined-together and to tho drawingroom and lighted with electricity, His stock of orchids is said to be worth £BOOO, Two Hamilton settlers shipped 24 cases of apples to Sydney and Melbourne markobi on Monday as an experiment, SomechoicopE. , '.r"! l iown!it»rwnt Australian fruit show were-found-by thsin purchasers to be infested with the codlin•ttiotli. In ■s'omo inslapcea two grubs wore'found'in ono pear,'' "'•' Compared with last year there is an mcreaso in Waitski County in wheat of BuV57 bushels, a decrease of 46,940 bushels in oats, an incroaso of 61,415 bushels in barley, and a decrease of - Wo^ttraVinprtstoeif..

The case against Dr King,- Bishop of Lincoln, charged with Ritualism, has concluded, tfhc Brack of Bishops has reserved judgment. Dalgetty & Co. have declared a dividend of 8 per cent, By a collision of the steamer Nisayas aud- thip Manile, 80 persons were drowned,