COUNTRY NEWS

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 69, 22 March 1910, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS

' . ■ l_ . H__——.Y. Telegraph.— Correspondent.) —TJNTLY, -Monday. w«r- ?? Mr ?' , Frank Twi__ie, of Taupiri, were, the recipients, of taa„-le tokens of h— -w*-* ? nii *- rt eem In which they are -T _ &- th ? lo & 1 residents on-- their leaving to reside in ' Huntly, where., Mr. -.Twina-ie-uas opened a timber yard. ', On Tuesday the ladies of Taupiri met in the Public __;«-? f/ ( esented ''Mrs.- Ttrt-une . with a oeautlful afternoon.tea,.sei-vice-and: silver -hot. water On Saturday Mr. '.T.wi___e £—_2 tertalncd- " a complimentary smoke S rt */■ the local cricket and football clubs. Mr. H. Waring, on behalf of the members, In a racy speech, presented Mr. lwinan— with a handsome smoker's ' coinP—_lion. , ..',-. ■■••--.*,." Tie following have been „ lee ted- to represent the Huntly real—n Club in the tenuis match, to be played at Pukekohe on •iaa—r Monday, 2Sth Inst.:— A.- J. keck, Messrs. C. Bailey, '15. Clinch, A. Green, X Greenwell, C. Gleeson, P. Littleproud, W. Poole, A. Rustcm, W. Rnston, W. Swain, and C. Watson, Mesdames Beck, Lang—rd, Littleproud, Niceoils, Misses I •liddy, Herd, and Huston. '; '-.-i ■On Saturday the Huntly cricket team ■journey— to Mercer to try conclusions with the local team, and suffered a . severe de* feat at their hands. Huntly were missed for 3i runs, against Mercer's SO. For Huntly Hasan. (11) and Kirkwood , (10) were the only bats—en to reach doi—lo figures, Hadley capturing most of the wickets. For Mercer Sehofleld's 39 runs were the result of good cricket, Shaw (13) being the only other player to make any stand. Vinson and Scho-eld took four and three wickets respectively. The following are the scores: Huntly: E. Taylor, b Keith, 0; E. Fox, c Sargent, b., Vinson, 1; AY... Kirkwood, b Schofield, 10; P. Stone, c Dsvlin, ,b Vinson, 0; J. Hagan, st Keats, b Vinson, 11; Dr. East, b Vinson, 0; George v.owe, run out,, 0; -11. Wilson, b Sehofleld, 1; J. Hadley, b Vinson, 0; Joe S. Johnson, b' Schofield, 4; A. Raynor, not out, 7; extras, 3.—Total, 37. Mercer District: Schofie—, b Fox 39Shaw, b Hadley, 13; J. Keith, "b Ha'dley, 2; J. Devlin, st East, Hadley, 6; C. Vinson, "o Hadley, 4; T. Sargent, c and b Taylor, 5; F. Tregojveth, b Taylor,. 1; '.Seymour, st East, b Hadley, 0; Collins, c and b Hadley, 0; Keats, b Hadley, 1; Hall, not out, 0; extras, 9.—Total, 80,