BULLETIN BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 15

BULLETIN BITS.

"01" reports:—After all. the iate Ilarrv Lillian! was not tbe doyen or Australian cricketers. At Maitland. living in ret.irement at the multitudinous age of 94, is (leorge Moore who played with the combined titi against the first All-England XL ill. H. Stephenson captain I known as Spier, and Ponds' vontuxo. George Moore was a good bowler, a good field, and a fair bat. He is grandfather of Charlie Alacartnpy. whom he tauirht lo play cricket with a boy's bat and v small green apple, for ball. •■Norbell": Talking of pubs with o.ld names, there used to be a wayside drinkery on the road from Kataraaiite to Varrawongu (Vie), known a£. -the Stinking ttoat. f don't think it was licensed under that mime, but no oine ever called it anything else. In Brunswick Street. Melbourne The .Labour in Vain and The Perseverance are on opposite curr.vrs. T'ne first used -to display a striking pk-ttrre of c. 'man trying to sernb a ni_rgi:r white, whilst thp oppos-ition hostel ry had a work of aTt or something depleting the opera-iion successfully performed, wii.l. -t'tt-i, legend, " Perseverance Rewarded." On the Lachlan a! .south .Konlte*. (N.S.W.), there is a queer little in.bibe.ry with trra quaint, s-ign, The Brave Hpan. .Every .Tie in Sydney knows The Hole in. the Wall, and el have noticed tho poetic pub nomenclature in Woollonmooloo, Sydney. Tliey have there The .Bells. The Little House T'nder the Hill, and Tlrr Cottage of Content. E.lcn Terry, wiio was audible in her best moments to quite half lire audience in the. Sydney Town Hall. had a wondpj'ful reception. The nerve strain of -trying lo catch all her remarks, from thp middle of that noisy sarcophagus, bad :ts compensation in the delight of seeing the tali, gTacefu-1. repd-robpd tigurp. and watching the dramatic gestures of the ■'rnce -hrim-rteneble Shakespearean actress. But evnn the joy of seeing' her was mixed' with the fear that her reference i.r.ok would fall over, or that slip would iose bcr place and- have to be person--1 !'y vxmdTieipd back to the right oen-tcn.-p. Tiie famous "quality of mercy" speech was a good' deal strained by j Kilpn's own dread of missing the 1-xt. i which she read from thp fateful tome I before her. A most satisfactory audience ventured forth into the mud and I rain to cough .hromrh the Terry dis- ■ e-nurwe on Portia. Itentriop nnd Rosalind. 1.--prions of schoolgirls, shepherded 1 i.v watchful dames in learned spectaeips. 7irobbed with enthusiasm till their hair bows made cinematograph effect of larg-p Ir.tves tossed by a gale of oxciteIraent.