FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3598, 27 August 1890, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The following fifteen and eighteen have been selected by the matoh committee to play a trial game at Carter* ton on Saturday next:—Probables— Baok,D'Arcyj threequarters, Thomas, Udy, Thompson j ; halves, J Perry, •Baumber, Mallard; forwards, Mo* Kenzie, Watson, Ingley, Tyler, Day, Mowatt, J Beard, Amos. Ppisible3— Luceaa, 0 Perry, Ussher, PeUinKj.. McCarty, HPorry, Kemble, Ow)ifPf forwards, Walter Weloh, G Welch, Moore, Morris, Mitchell, Gray, 0 Beard, GKeid, 0 Bannister, T Weloh. The Southern, Clubs are very indignant at'tueaotion of Mr D'Aray in refusing to assist.in picking tho representative team, Mr D'Aroy, however, appears to be quite justified in the course ho adopted as a protest against the flagrant injustice being perpetrated by his fellow-committee' men. ■ "•

Sir Rotort Stout on tto M% Question. [From the Christchurcb. Press] " We have before us a Bill intra* dnced by his Government in 1885, entitled "A Bill to. Amend the Criminal Law relating to Violence, Threats, and Molestation." Thia Bill was brought in in the Upper Hoiisoi by Mr Buokloy," his Colonial Seoijr tary. It passed through that Hoilsa, and the second .reading in the House of Representatives was moved by Sir Robert Stout himself. There is a good deal in the Bill not material to : bo referred to hero, but we will give the very words so far as they apply to the case before us, It reads as follows:—Section 3—" Every person " who shall. . , molest or obstruct "any person in manner defined by " this section, with a view to coerce "such person, being a master, to "dismiss or ceaso to employ any " workmen,,, or to alter the raodo "of carrying on his business, or "the number-or description of any " persons employed: by him, shall be "liable to imprisonment, with or 11 without hard labor, for a term not " exceeding three months,",', The section also goes on to provide that "aperson, shall for the purpose of 11 this Act be deemed to molest or " obstruot another person in any of "tho following cases, that" is to Bay "(1) if he persistently Mows'suor>"|, •' person about from plaowio place,. ,w " (3) if he watch or beset the housejjr " other place where such' person "resides or. works, or carries on " business, or happens to be, or tho " approach to' such house or place." : This is not all, It was further proposed to be enacted. by the samo | .section that" nothing in this section '. l "shall prevent any person from - "being liable under any other Ac't, " pr otherwise to any other or higher '* punishment than is provided for "' any offence by this section," No Minister would think for a moment l of connecting himself with a measure I in which he did not personally feela , strong interest, and was anxious to smuggle'through' the House, • Sir ■ Robert's letter is about as unsatisfactory as one might expect from such antecedents, We have neither space nor time to deal with it as it deserves in our present issue. We have at the outset briefly indicated a course which he insists upon as proper, without, however, troubling our readers with the extraordinary .A arguments,; or rather peryisions of W argument,by which he 'supports his' conclusions, All this we must reserve for a future opportunity. \lt is tie less necessary at this moment becauia those arguments did not go down wiih the Maritime Council,' 'But tho short ".. result is just this* In 1885, whin;" Sir Robert Stout had a strong party a t his back, his idea of public duty, was T. that the law should bo bo altered,at to enable any two JT.P.'sora Residens Magistrate to send any laborer to . p'riobb. for. three w&nths for.doing