FOOTBALL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3268, 29 July 1889, Page 2

FOOTBALL

Carterton Rivals v Masterton Red Stars.

This match was played at Carterton on Saturday in the presence of a fair number of spectators. At first some difficulty was experienced in finding a referee, but eventually Mr S, H, Wickerson acted in that capacity, The game resulted in a drawn match, each

side-scoring four points, a goal and a try, The contest waß very interesting The start was brisk and play maintained its lively character throughout. The finish, from the time the first goal was kicked, was about as fast playing as we have seen this season, and the only time play at all cased off; was about the middle of the game. The contestants were pretty evenly matched as the result proved, and the ball was first at ouo eud of the field and then at the other in npid variation, The Bed Star Club scored first, h'reeth getting a try. K. Thompson \yas deputed to tnko the kick, but no further score resulted from his attempt. Eagle then got a try for Carterton. Baumler was the cboaen one, but ho likewise fafied in the kick, Subsequently Ngnteuregot a mark at about twenty-five line, and Baumber more than retrieved his previous had shot by scoring '»i\ undoubted goal from a brilliant and very long angle kick. This placed Carterton a goal ahead, The Stars, rallying, played like demons, and carrying the ball right into the stronghold'of the Rivals,' a few minutes extremely rapid play ensued and o ! Arcy potting n clever short-range

roiil from tho field. Tho first goii was kicked about ten minutes befor 0

time; aiid the second about fiV minutes before, both being in tb second B]iell. No further score wu made and tlio matcb resulted a

Btateil above. Snodgrass of the Carterton team was disabled most of the second round; and Watson, of Masterton, was temporarily cramped , in'tho same" spell; but only'"for a.

minute or two. Tho notable playors ■veto Rivals—Buumbor, back; Tyler, forward. Mastorton—D'Arcy, back; Watson, forward.

The Carterton Pirates v, Gladstone Jubilee Stars, contested at Gladstone on Saturday. The Pirates won on two tries got by Darrock, their captain. The Jubilee Stars scored only 0110 point, Jaro, a native getting a try, The Pirates for a time wore playing ,/■• with a team of sixteen strong, or oho ' man too many, and they had after- M wards to relinquish a goal which ym ' t obtained during this period. The Te Ore Ore Natives played the Gladstone Natives on • Saturday, on the ground of the latter, Te Ore Ore won easily. The score was one goal and two try (that is 5 points) to nil. Tho Gladstone men have the making of a good team, but veteran ■ skill prevailed. This is tho 6rst match they have played,' the ,Club only .recently having been formed. On Saturday the Masterton team went to Groytown to play tho Cup match with t'jut Club,_bjit owing to. the bungling of the Union, the Greytown men ihcided to forfeit thegauavijjA and this decision virtually wakes** Marterton the winners of the cup for the year. Several of the Masterton team returned at once to .Carterton to see the Star v Masterton match beinj; played there, but the others stayed and had a good practice with the Greytown men, seventeen of the latter playing fourteen of tho former, tho places of W. Day, Smith and.' Perry being made up with The Greytown team had a good doal ; the best of the practice. Kalaugher secured two tries, one of which Mitchell converted, T, Wallace dribbled through and touched down for Masterton, but the kick at goal was a failure.

A meeting of tho Management Committee of the Union, will be held this evening, when business re Wellington and Maori matches will he settled,

Recent Attempts at Smuggling The bad old times when strings of pack-horses laden with goods more or less openly left English ports and harbours aud proceeded to inland towns, aro gone forever. The littlo smuggling still carried on is done in fear and trembling. The Custom • house officers aro veritable blood-hounds, and it is very rarely indeed that exciseable articles escape their vigilance.

Tobacco has been discovered in most peculiar places, as the lining of s garments,and sometimes asunder- * linen, where the leaves might be expected to act somewhat after the maimer of mustard plasters. Only a month or two ago a sharp officer observed a man leaving a vessel whose limbs did not match bis body,. The latter was exceedingly stout; tho former were of normal siza. Tho officer ordered the bold smuggler to strip, when ho was found to be largely composed of tobacco placed next to the sMn. Tyrants of olden times might have sentenced the smuggler to seven . days in the hottest chamber of 1$ Turkish bath, and compelled him to wear his tobacco garments, supposing that Turkish baths had been in existence, Modern justice merely imposed a penalty of threo times tho value of the. novel under-linen, Tobacco has been found in the stoke-holes of steamers, in lumps pressed into the shape of coal, and painted black; in the guise of various articles used on ship-board, such as running blocks, etc., and painted to resemble them; in casks of damaged and uneatable salt pork and beef, fashioned to resemble tbeso unsavory ~ articles of food; in the tubes of disused boilers; at tho bottoms of casks of damaged biscuits; coiled up with spare ropes; aud even in the small cannon carried by trading and passenger steamers for saluting and signalling purposes. The charges were not expected 'to "go off" but, notwithstanding tho absence of gunpowder, they did —in tho company of Customs officers,

An official had his drawn to tho unusual number or spare masts and spars carried by a vessel trading with Spain. An examination revealed tho fact that the lower ones were hollow, and filled with exciseable articles. About tho time of our last war with Franco a Dover pilot repeatedly ovaded tho Customs authorities in this manner, Tho masts on use in his boat, and the spare ones carried by it wero hollow from top to bottom. In tho centre of each was a small rod, round which the bold smuggler mapped many yards of silk, satin and laco. ,_* The Spanish Custom Houso officers f> who have plenty of work to do, ' recently discovered that a diver's head piece and dress had been made use of as a vehicle for smuggling, and English officers liavo fouud brandy and cigars stowed away inside codfish,

Logs of wood on board ship are generally regarded with suspicion, and justly so; tlioy have bo many times been found to be hollow, aiflf to contain contraband goods, A few years ago a revenue cutter overhauled a boat towing a log behind it. The log was taken out of the water and . examined, It appeared to be a solid log oi soft wood. It undoubtedly was solid, but both smell and tasto informed the astute officers that it was an immense block of pressed tobacco with a cork centre. Contraband goods are sometimes carefully enveloped in waterproof material, and dropped overboard, being suspended at the end of an innocent looking rope hanging fnm , a port liolo, But innocent looking f*. ropes when banging in the wf tor are ' are looked upon with suspicion by astute officials, "who, by hauling in the line, have mora than once lauded a very queer fish indeed. Smugglers sometimes evade duty by dropping the contraband goods jp shallow water, where they may easily be dredged lip- aftpiwfa. ' ' . The authorities naturally ((nevjjr* or rarely say how their clues were obtained, but it is possible that the rrere fact that the peculiar cotton ivaa consigned to London instead of to Manchester via Liverpool put them upon the scent, Casks supposed to contain oils, or other nonexciseable fluids are always examined, Until the Customs authorities become aware of the dodge,'a considerable amount 'of brandy was smuggled by the simple expedient of fixing a lube inside the cast of oil, or whatever the article, ■lf

was supposed to bo, Tlio bung-liolo only communicated with the tubo, wliioh hold all the oil the cask contained. When an officer dipped his rod in the cask lie did not dip it into the brandy outsido the tube. Tho rods aro now moved from side to side, tho entire width of the barrel. _ A recent capture lias brought to light an ingonious tubo or cone, which gradually broadening from tho neok to a base almost as wido as tho cask, has made detection very .A'difficult. Fivo foreigners were the guilty parties, On May 4th last nineteen tin cannsiters iu wicker baskets consigned as containing olive oil, were shipped from Antwerp to Harwich, mid finally reached St. George's in the East, They had passed the Customs, but owing to informations received, had been watched, An officer \.Jk, visited tho warehouse where thoy had been stowed, and found that each canister contained a gallon and a half of olive oil in tho tube or cone, and also about twenty gallons of brandy, in all 880 gallons, A small spout emerged from the side of each canister, and olive oil flowed when the tap was turned, i The spout was connected with the oil in the cone by a tube passing through tho brandy-whiob could not be tapped without piercing the outside of tho canister, This is tho most entensive case of wholesale smuggling in recent years. Each .convicted defendant was fined over a jjfcousiuid pounds. The law enables "The authorities to keep the prisoners in jail until the penalties aro paid.