FOOTBALL.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) COLLINGWOOD V. RIWAKA.

A Cup matoh of the Buller Rugby Union was played on the Riwaka ground on Saturday last. Great interest was centred in this game, it being between two clubs who had at that time the highest number of marks. Owing to this a very large concourse of spectators were present to witness the contest, and a great deal of enthusiasm was displayed, so much so that it was somewhat difficult to prevent visitors going over the lines, and in some instances to seriously interfere with the players. This is a common nuisance on most play grounds, but it is a pity that visitors will not understand that there is ample room provided for them to see all that passes without trespassing over the boundary. A little before three o'olock the Collingwood men put in an appearance on the ground, and the toss being won by Collingwood, Riwaka kicked off, and the game began and continued in earnest, the ball being kept well down to the Collingwood men. After about ten minutes' hard play the ball was carried over the Collingwood goal line in a rush. After a tough maul a try was gained by the Riwaka men. This was all the scoring effected during the first spell. During the second spell the Collingwood men showed up well, and quickly obtained a mark. A try for goal was made by A. Whitehorn, but the ball was well stopped. After some rather indifferent play the ball was obtained by McKenna, who potted a very neat goal. The Riwaka men now tried very hard to regain their lost ground, and forced down their opponents several timea, but did not succeed in increasing the score, the game resulting in a win for Collingwood by 3 points to 1. The Collingwood team are to be congratulated on their success. They have not lost a single match during the season, and are now without doubt the winners of the Cup. The game on the whole was rather disappointing. The Biwaka men (very unnsual with them) appeared flurried and irresolute. It would have been muoh better for them had they played their usual open game. The Collingwood backs played well on the defensive, but failed to get into their opponents' game; the forwards did some good dribbling, and in this proved too much for Riwaka. The passing was very indifferent; on both sides. Messrs Scaden and P, Fay carried out very effectively the duties of umpires, and Mr Sadd acted as referee.

A couple from the Eccleshall neighbour* hood went to Stafford lately with the intention of being married at the office of the superintendent registaar (Mr W. Morgan). They were accompanied by another man — an ex-Boldier with Beveral medals— and woman as witnesses. .As the formalities proceeded, the men in some way got mixed, and the declarations which should have 00 me from the intended bridegroom — a countryman— were actually made by the more active and ready ex-soldier, who also produced the ring and placed it on the woman's finger. It was one when the register came to be signed that the mistake was discovered, whereupon the parties wished the ceremony repeated in its intenied order, but Mr Morgan declined to proceed further until he had taken the advice of the Registrar-General with reBpeot to the singular complication. That official, teplying to a communication fiom Mr Morgan, says :- " Although the obtusonees of the people whose case you report is well nigh incredible, it appears that the whole affair was a mere blunder whioh might have been put right on the spot by the recital of the words of declaration and contract." He advises that the registrar Bhould obtain the immediate attendance of the parties at his office with witnesses, and that they should be remarried and a new entry of the marriage made. It is expected that the parties will again present themselves for a rearrangement of their matrimonial affairs.

js&Miss Ellen Terry, continuing her " Stray Memories " in the New Review, assures us thai stage fright is like nothing elße ia the world. " You are standing there apparently quite well, and in your right mird, when you Buddenly feel as if your tongue had become dislooated aud was lyiDg powerless in your mouth. Cold shivers begin to creep downwards from the nape of your neck and all up you at the same time, until they seun to meetj in the small of your back. About this tim e you feel as if a centipede, all of whose feet had been oaref uiiy iced, bad begun to xun about in the roots of your hair, Your next agreeable sensation is the breaking out of a cold perspiration all over you. Then you feel as though somebody had out the muscles at the back of yourknees: your mouth begins slowly to open without giving utterance to a single sound, and your eyes seem inclined to jump out of your head over the footlights. At this period it is as well to get off the stage as quiokly as possible — you are far beyond the hope of any human help."

In liiiszh a remarkable personage has just been sentenced to imprisonment for life. A man named Krukoweki was the son of rich parents; ho belonged to the nobility, and formerly possessed large estates in the provinces of Wolhynia and Padolien. He had a penchant for cards, and in a few years after his father's death found that he had spent all his immense fortune, and was so deeply in debt that he was obliged to sell most of his land, with the exception of one small estate. M. Krukowski had always been rather eccentric, and in his youth had been very fond of literature of a sensational character. Finding that he had not enough to live upon in comfort, he resolved to turn highwayman. Accordingly his coachman, two of his men servants, and several laborers on his estate were preßsed into his service. Many were the bold robberies that he and his band committed, even on the outskirts of such towns as Luszh and Dubuo. But they always managed to escape the police. No poor person in trouble ever appealed to Krukoweki in rain, for his well-filled purse was always open, and it is stated that he probably gave away more in charity than any one person in Russia. Upon one occasion it is related that a lady whose propeity was seized and about to be sold by her creditors received upoa the day before the sale a large packet, which, contained all the receipts for her debts and Krukowßki's visiting card enclosed. Thiß is only one of the many tales whioh are told of the brigand's generositp, One of his firm rules was that ho blood should ever be shed, and not one single death can be attributed to Krukowski, The police had, years ago, given up hope of capturing the brigand, who possessed, the advantage of havihg the sympatny of the people on his side, but he was recently captured by treachery, He had the misfortune to abmire a village girl, who possessed a lover of her own, but who was not adverse to the attention paid to her by the famous brigand. The lover suspected her, and gave information to the police, with the result that Krukowski was captured. He is a, tall, handsome man, and when tried boldly acknowledged that all he waß accused of was true.

Some interesting evidonce was given in the Melbourne City Court the other day with reference to the burglaries that have recently taken place at railway stations^ Frederick Mitchell, at present undergoing a sentence of imprisonment for being found at the Bockbank railway station with house-breaking tools in hiß possession, was brought up on a charge of being found by night without lawful excuse oa the premises of Messrs John Wigg and Co., in Exhibition street, on the 19th July last. Ex-Constable Miller deposed that he arrested prisoner on the date mentioned for being on the premises of Meßßrs Wigg and Co. His prisoner however, got away, but witness after. wards recognised him in the watchhouse. Kobert Humberg, dairy farmer, at Eock. bank, for whom prisoner had worked during the five days previous to hie being arrested at the Bockbank station, etated that at the farm Mitchell told him he had oue night in Melbourne got away with handouffs on from the custody of a policemen by knocking him. down. Prisoner told him that he had broken into Brown's draper shop in Mtzroy in company with a man named Wallace and two others; that he had also broken into the Box Hill railway station, had knocked a gentleman down in Little Collins Btreet, and robbed him of a gold watch and chain. Mitchell alsa showed him some dynamite caps a jemmy, a "masterpiece " ken and fuses, and told him he was going to break into the Bockbank railway station. The prisoner explained to him, too, how the lock of a safe could be shattered by dynamite, and then easily foroed, remarking that some people still used the clumsy old hammers and chisels ; but dynamite was the best agent for the purpose. Mitchell told him he was going to break into Rockbank railway station, but witnesss did not inform the police,, as he thought it was mere " blow." The acouaed was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with bard, labor,