MASONIC BALL.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3889, 8 February 1870, Page 4

MASONIC BALL.

In accordance with previous announcement, the Masonic brethren gave a ball last evening, at the Music lid!], to the brethren connected wilk the Flying Squadron.

Durini? the afternoon, the 'Dulce of Edinburgh' and ' Enterprise No. 1' made Kcvev.d tnps with visitor to the ' Phcebe' oi- of her vcs=eh o( the S'quadion. One ol the steam-launches bad n narto\ !>ac»p» from being run down by the '-unswi.' T!ie launch whs Hearing the jetty, with an ordinary launch in. tow. The ' Luna' was at the outer T, and at the vr^hrly end, reidy for a straight, run ovi a- *..>.>n as he *• irted. Tim^e i»i ch,\r^>H < :>.^tiMiii-lauuch were evidently not ti \\ !H c nf (he of the 'Luna,' or of tii, .[indru'vs Ail wiil','ll tl>or-^ waj._« li'Mi „i lv!' p i,l Jh'q ai em motion; and iin.i»<<!i ihe ' Lu-.a' icid ho<nu to hvov,', ti his (vkuldU'd (hat tlte launch could >-a' !y cio^ lier b.ius 'j'he modj in v, h, L .|i i|. P ' i,un i' "iumpa otf," howevei, n-mli'icl that uniio<>&\ble ; and " fui( sju-tii aa'aTu" on board (he humcli would not have s'\\cd l\"c dvm a \<'ry hard ihirnp ;mau\<b o\c ' f.una," it two or three men had t.ot, msiantlv seized hoat liool-s «nii \ihieii to fen. l off The \dlue ot the new anvinuernents for Siipphintr water at the \> harf has been strikingly proved during the viait of the Squ'.dion, Yeat relay, two or throe of the l.uinelies— each fitted with a hu^e Water pioof b.»2:,«hicl\ filled her fore-and-aft, and up to the Him ,nts, as well as with a couple of hand pi-ops (o< liliuij^ ilie Tuifor o;i bo-, a ,i, 0 „,ips—w en- being loaded a( <lie - \im> t'nic A ci'i-kic nn''' 1'!1 '! between eleven of Auc 1 la, ,d, a,d de-en ft' the FJyir.rr Sqnadioii. (owes off to d.iv. in the Albert B.uiacU, wickets to be pitched at 10:50. The following are the names of the players: -Auckland . Messrs. Dawson, Daubeiiey, Phillips, l{ Cc«, C c«, Jlumford, Bow en, Ma^an, Keleiier, Bras^ey < PoeoeA, senior, and Poeoek, junior. Fl'yiii(? yquadron: Lieutenants' liouderson, May, and V.'r.e;ht; Messrs. Henderson, liielMiiond, Pearce, Baring, Protlieroe, Sparks, Kunpton. :md Wirren. A band from one of the ships will play on the Barrack Green f^urin^ the match.

A lifle match took place yesterday at thePoint Chevalier Butts, between 20 maiines and sailors of If M s k Liftoy, ' and 20 of the ' Endymion.' After some very good filing on both -.jdo? the ' En dyuii on V men proved the victoid by 21 points, This evening, tncie will be a subsuripfcion ball to the Aclmnal and oificeis, at the Miiiic T-LilJ, iSyj/joncld-sti eot,