[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received July 10, noon.)

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1893, Page 2

[ UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION .] (Received July 10, noon.)

Stdnet, This Dat. Refcrrinsr to Saturday's match, the Sydney Morning Herald say 3 the result was brought about not moro by tho superiority of the homo team than by the evident ataloness of the New Zealanders. Soon after the play started it waß seen that the visitors were not the players of a week ago, and in f act thi y plainly showed that they were playing too many matches during tho tour. Tho Daily Telegraph 6ays that while the reason of the defeat i 3 stated to be stalenesp, the writer is inclined to the opinion that the victory was in a great measure duo to tho lessons taught the home team on the previous Saturday, and to tho discovery that tho visitors are not the champions most peoplo expected.

A peculiar case has just been settled, at tho request of the Horowhenua Eugby Union, by tho Appeal Committee of the New Zealand Union. A player touched town near tho corner flag. The line umpire, believing he had gone into tonph, held up his flag, and tho referee blew his whistlo simultaneously wth 'tho touclrdown. Tho defending team then claimed that tho ball be thrown in from the spot whero the line umpire held up his flag, but that official changed his mind, and said tho player did not go out, a position in which he was upheld by the 1 ystanders and all concerned. The referee then awarded tho try. The Horowhenna Union asked whether it was legitimate for him to do so? Tho A ppeal Com. mitteo has decided that the referee, by tho act of blowing his whistle, having allowed the decision of tho line umpire, the try must be disallowed.