SOCIAL AT SILVERSTREAM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 200, 18 May 1908, Page 9

SOCIAL AT SILVERSTREAM.

A very, pleasant .sqcial in .coancction with •tho! Sdverstream,Cricket Club was. hold ■ m jMonziC s -Hall.- on . Saturday -evening' last, ■when-tho- President (Mr. Clins. P.. Cotter) was presented-.with;a ncatly-mscnbed hand- - 'Wg -and.,set of -military,..hair-brushes 'in /reof: his generosity in providing the I ,club .a_ sui'tablo' pitch and in many other '..ways assisting 'tlio -sport of .cricket.''in* Silver-.' , .stream! , Mr. 'T.'"sl. Wilford (chairman), in - ,niaking;,tli« .presontat-ipn, eulogised Mr. Cotoxaniplb in thus promoting good' feeling ,: ampn£-/th'o community by means of a sport which' both'old and young could indulge ■ under the .. most favourablo circumstances.:Ti*ater in'tho'/cvehing the Club captain (Mr. . 'J.' Brace)'.was presented with a fino pipe and----/tobaeco pouch. on the' evo ■of his departure •' '; '-frohi i&lyorstrehm, where ho ,liad been . iii-'; ■sti'vnieiithl in' tN /formation of, the. cricket.'"blub. -' ",Thei'.Chairman very ably expressed ;,ttioj.' Sentiment's ;of tho. /members iii.;*both:.;Tircscntationsj.'.ahd the; health of ciicll—tho 1 'l'fesidciit. and ■ the,- drunk to i musical honotirs. Dunng tho evening songa : • wore sung by-Messrs.; G. and S. 'Wickms,-' --G;- Dixon,. I'. ,J{.' AVilford, J. liraoe, G.-Bay-•ley; N. Jv Bennington, and tho Rov. C. J. >■ Smith. Tlio principal speeches' \tero -tli<W-v of Colonel Owen, in relation to sport gencr-';.: ally, "nhd Mr. AC J. M'Cnrdy' to "Parliambnt," "whilst tho -story of tlio prowess of ' "Taiori-whi,"' the great, southern chi?f ' as: told -by tho-; Maoris- thcmrelvcj,. gave '-Mr' 1 Wilford;: especial opportunity to show'his ■versatility- as .raconteur.-: • ■