ORIENTAL FOOTBALL CLUB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4855, 19 October 1894, Page 2

ORIENTAL FOOTBALL CLUB.

Annual Dinner, Footballers in Mastorton havo been indulging in luxuries rathor freely of late, and three annual dinners within a week is enough to satisfy the niostardentof our knights of tho leather. If a team from the three Clubs wero now called on to display their agility on the football field, we fear their form would not be of the best. However, the season of rough and tumble is over, and each Club has entertained its members in right royal style, Tho last, but by no means least,of these annual re-unions took place in the Temperance Hall last evening, when some fifty membeis of tho Oriental Football Club sat down to dinner, Groat preparations had been made, and tho hall was suitably decorated for the occasion. The tables were laden with delicacies, in Host Wickens' best style, and the meuibors of the young Club enjoyed the proceedings in a hearty maimer, Mr T. D, Thompson occupied the chair, and by his excellent generalship and ready repartee kept 'the fun going, The officers of the Orientals and several members of other Clubs were present by invitation to partake of tho hospitality afforded, and after full justice had been clone to the good things, the company went into harmony, Songs were rendered by Messrs Lilly, Light, Falls, Greathead, Sutton, Jeffries Knoppsand W, Thompson, and little stories by tho chairman kept all present in a bubble of mirth,

The usual toasts wore proposed and responded to in short and pithy speeches, Messrs D'Arcy, Wilsone, Bennett., Hughes, and Jeffries taking tho main share, In proposing the health of the Oriental football Club, tho Chairman spoko highly of their play during tho past season, and said 1 the record of seven matches played, five won, one drawn, and one lost, was one they should be proud of. Ho had no doubt, if they stuck loyally to their colors, the black and amber adherents would yet make a big name for themselves. Messrs D'Arcy, Wilsono and Jeffries also spoko in high terms of the young Club, and gave them some good advice for future work, : :

The successful gathering was kept going with considerable spirit until eleven o'clock, when "Auld Laiig Syne" terminated the proceedings. The Committee, on whose shoulders the bulk of the work fell, consisting of Messrs 13, Bennett,""!, Richards, A. Owen, 11. Harland,and J, Henry, and the Secretary (Mr H. Bagge) worked hard throughout tho evening, looking well after tho company, and must havo felt highly graatifiedat the qreat success of tho affair.