ULTIMA THULE-DEMONSTRATION DAY.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 69, 19 September 1894, Page 3

ULTIMA THULE-DEMONSTRATION DAY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib— Being an old enthusiastic orioketer, and having been brought back to life after years of bed-ridden infirmity, when all other means failed, I have great love and veneration for that power which condnood to restore me— iiz., frosh air, glowing sunsbino, green sward, and genial company during the exhilarating cricket soason. I am not singular in that respect, for fresh life has boen infused into many other invalids simply through the same delightfully inexhaustible source —a renewal of magnetic foroe and vitality acquired by watching our young aspirants to honour and fame vigorously disporting themselves on the entrancing cricket field, cultivating sound healthy minds, and developing healthy, vigorous, and active physique— an inestimable boon, to fit them for the ambitions duties of life, building up a great and progressive nation, thereby immortalising themselves, like our City Fathers whon they striotly enforce all aggressive demons, within the Ministry and outr of it, to preserve the Basin from injury on Demonstration Day, after the beautiful order and condition the ever indefatigable coterie of zealots inseparable from tho Cricket Association has brought the ground to this season, and it is oxtremely gratifying and refreshing to learn that our paters civicus are about to ereot proper dressing rooms on this central recreation ground. Unlimited applause and filial duty await them on tho speedy completion of the groatly desired work, but (the inevitable) the ground is in that very tender condition at present, through the inordinately wet weather experienced throughout the winter and spring, that it will be utterly ruined if crowds are not kept studiously off the practice and other pitches by a strong and vigilant body of spooial constables, to gnard against the ravages of the irrepressibles and compel them to keep strictly outaide the boundary of the turf on to the gravcllodpatha entirely surronnding tho Basin, otherwise the pitches will become as hard and as bare of grass as adamant for our oriokets to play upon. I am, &c, EXPERBNTIA DOCKT. 14th September, 1894.