CORRESPONDENCE. ATHLETIC SPORTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1483, 5 January 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE. ATHLETIC SPORTS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —Will you please grant me space in your columns, to draw the attention of yourself, the authorities, and the public, to a growing evil amongst us, which is a disgrace to us a* a community. I refer to the low demoralising gatherings which take place in our midst under the misleading name of Athletic Sports. Now et it be understood, I do not refer to those carried on in respectable townships, under the management of respectable people, but to such disgraceful proceedings as those that were witnessed at Whatawhata on the 27th inBt., which showed how sadly depraved people can become when such a disgusting spectacle as a man appearing in the crowd in the main thoroughfare in his shirt alone, and vowing that he can jump higher than anyone else present, is hailed with delight, and the disgraceful brawler m tde the hero of the hour. What does this say for the state of morals, in our boasted nineteenth century. The time was when such conduct would not be countenanced by even the most depraved of human creatures. It is high-time Mr Editor, that all respectable people turned their backs upon such scenes, and used their utmost endeavours to stamp out an evil which is growing up and threatening with destruction all thoughts of decency in the rising generation, and if they have grown insensible to such things it becomes the duty of the authorities to see that police are sent to such places to .check the vice with the strong hand of the law and crush it out with an iron heel. — I am, &c, O Tempoba 0 Mobes.

A dairy school is about to be established in the South of England, for which the purchase of an estate of over 1000acres is contemplated. Two classes of pupils will be received, one of student^; who will pay £25 to merely cover the JT. cost of board and lodging, and who will beemployed as apprentices for six months;/ and another from whom a higher fee will be required, and with whom . actual manual work will be included, with all the best processes and appliances of modern dairy practice. From extended, observations on sheep, that are tended for their milk,' M, Tayori finds that the production of wool is in. an inverse to the production of milk. The sheep, yielding , most milk, and having four or six teats, are almost entirely without wool. The wool occupies . but a small surface of the body.- It disappears on the , whole of thej'hejid. the neck, the breast,* and. the" abdomen jr also on a great part; of the legs, r and in the bends of the hams.' All these part« h*ve merely short ;haifs. pThe^tskin^o^'jfche teats has, on a < 4 very^ Vjariablejsurface, special hairs directed, upwards!' and related to the aotiviiy/of^hiejkcteal 'glanclfc "'" ' ""