FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3207, 17 May 1889, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

■. Tlie'dup;liaatchea[have been drawn to be played as follows. First round: ;V 15th;June,-liiyal Ist y Greytown Ist, at Greytown.' Red" Star ,Ist v Masterton lst.at Bed Star ground. Red Star 2nd y To Ore Ore, on the Masterton ground. Greytown 2nd v fire Brigade, at Greytown,- ;•..-:, 22nd June,—Rival Ist y Masterton lit, at Cojcterton. Greytown Ist v Red Star Ist, at ,Greytowni • Rival 2nd v Masterton" 2nd, at Masterton.' c 29th June.—Rival Ist y Star Ist, on Star,. ground, Greytown Ist v Masterton Ist, at Masterton. : ,

• /The. Pabiatua Football Club has accepted the oballenge from ;the Eketahuna Club to play a match on the 24th inst. .•

",.' MELBomtNK.May 15. The Maori football team 'played their first match under the, Victorian' rules against the Maryborough twenty. It was evident from.the; start that the New Zealanders were not well acquainted with;the game,but they showed splendid kicking power. Maryborough won by'six goals and six behinds to 'one,goal and ! two behinds. Nehua;;secured the only goal for the visitors. ',.; The' Red. Star 'and,-Carterton Rivals first fifteens will meet oh'the, ground of the former at -8' o'clook to-morrow. The members'"of the' Masterton Club will meet for practicu on their own ground. ■ A Black lan Turning White'

" Mr James Payn writes in his Illustrated London News Note Book: —Mr. Greene Howell, Midville, Georgia, if what is reported of him'is correct, may with truth be pronounced to be " pne of the most remarkable men, sir, in our country." He was born a " man of color"—in quite another sense than that suggested by his" first name"-and up to thirty years of age "had no idea that lie would ever be anything but a black man"; but Nature, it seems, has hud second thoughts about him, aud is putting them into practice. Ho is now becoming slowly but surely a white'rnan—but it occurs in patches. Mr Swinbjrne tells us that man is "neitherwhite as snow, nor black as a crow; he is black and white, striped, dubious, piebald," This is what has .literally happeued to' Mr Greene Howell; he is piebald. His hand 3 /when washed) are already white jthere are two patches of white on eaoh ear;. and what was once rudely called his wool springs from a white scalp. He began, it seems, to wlnteuat the top (as is the case with manyofus),but the transformation is going on all over him; he growß lighter and lighter (like the winter mornings) every day; even his feet are turning out white. He is described as" very intelligent," but not sufficiently so to explain the cause of this phenomenon, "in a few years —if he is not interviewed to death-there will be no difference between him or any other white man, except that his .hair will, I suppose for his age, be rather curly. That " complete change" so often recommended by the Faculty, has in this gentleman's case been for once obtained; the common phrase, "he turned-white," has had, for the first time, [a literal exemplification; and the alteration of hue appears to be agreeable to him. But suppose Mr Greene" Howell had turned from white to black, instead of from black to white, how would he have liked it then? Some white men don't even like turning grey.. We are told that it is very hard "to put oneself in. the place' of other people," but in this case Nature herself has overcome the difficulty; and beiug so "very intelligent," Mr Howell will, no doubt, be in a position to solve what anthropologists call " the race problem." " When I was only a man and a,brother, my thoughts, my sensations, my emotions, were so and so; now lam one of yourselves they are different." To the philosopher he will, therefore, be more interesting when the trans-1 formation has been fully accomplished ; but I oan fanoy others who will, be more curious to see him in his present stage of evolution-pie-bald,