FOOTBALL.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

WELLINGTON v. TARANAKI. Great interest is being taken in the match at Newtown this afternoon botween the Wellington and Taranalri xepreaentatires. Tha teams were played from the City Buffet Hotel to the ground by the" Garrison Band. tS^ ASSOCIATION TOURNAMENT. The Wellington Association may be congratulated npon the team it has stiooeeded in getting together to represent it tit the animal tournament for the Brown Shield, to be played in Auckland next week. It contains no noricea, and the forwards are a determined let, who play «. fair passing game. Tho backs are really strong, and, with ordinary luck, the team Bhould bring back the Shield. Goal— J. Smith (Swifts) hag played very well in .this position all through the season; keeps cool tinder any emergency, and always does the correct thing. Full (right)— T. Shields (Queen's Park), captain of the team) is a grafter; tackles and kioks well. Pull (left)— W. Anld (Rorerß) plays a hatd game ; weak on the tackle, but sound kiok. Half (centre)— G. H. Heafford (Swifts), the best man in Wellington for the position ; dribbles well, and feeds his forwards with judgment. Half (left)-S. Bichardson (Hovers) is very fast; tackles, kioks, and throws in well. Half (right)— H. Gamble (United) works his 'hardest ; is a good taokler and good kiok. Forwards — Centre: 0. Hailwood (Thistle) ia the right mm in the right place ; when he means business he is a difficult man to stop ; his goal reoord is the best in Wellington. Outside left: J. Plenderleith (Queen's Park) is very fast, and playa with dash ; is difficult to stop and centres Eplondidly. Inside left : J. Macdonold (Swifts) has played centre for bis olub during this season ; is olever with feet and head ; plays an unselfish game. Bight outside ■ A. Kergusson (Thistle), the veteran of the team, always plnys his hardest, and at olose quarters is a dangerous man. Inside right : Ferldns (Queen's Park), is fairly fast, and passes well. A. Glover, the reserve man, is last, heavy forward, of the robust type. The team will leave per Mahinapua on Sunday night, and will be joined by the liuahine team at New Plymouth. The Nelson College team, which is to play against Wellington College first at Newtowu on Monday, arrived by the Mawhera this morning. ( Our' Own Correspondent.) Napmr, This Dat. Wanganui College third beat the Grammar Sohool by 9 points to 5. W, Levin kicked a penalty goal, and Gillon and E. Levin soored tries. The following is from the Argus of 9th August -.—Mr. Austin's statement in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday that tho manufacture of wax vestas is a very dangerous ono, although oontr*dioted with intrepid assurance by Mr. Trenwith, is painfully true. It has given rise to a new kind of disease known as phosphorism, whioh formed the snbjeot of a paper recently read before the Academy of Medioine, in Paris, by M. Magitot, a specialist, who has devoted particular attention to the malady. He states that persons engaged in the fabrication of these matches exhibit all the symptoms of alow poisoning by ohemical cachexy, and that this is common to all the workpeople, without exception. He enumerates the earlier effects of _ phosphorism, among which are an aneamio con dition of the whole system and % failure ol nutrition generally. In more advanced oases, ohronio enteritis, obstinate diarrhoea bronohitis, a predisposition to fractures fol lowed by great difficulty in healing them anc vicious consolidation, muscular raptures and speoial necrosis of the jaws, whiol usually proves fatal, are lbe necessary re suits of phosphorism. After pointing onl the therapeutio agenoies best adapted t< combat the effects of the disease in its earliei stages, M. Magitot oonoludes by nrginf the Legislature that it should entirely pro hibit the use of white phosphorus in the manufacture of matohes. Whether the alov poisoning of young girls in Bnrnley is an in dustry for the establishment of which wi should sacrifice a large amount of revenui is a question upon which, philantropists un< prohibitionists may be oxpeoted to hole diametrically opposite opinions. . News has been received, by the 'Frisci Mail that Mr. James Lancaster Luoena, onl; bop of Mrs. Luoena, of Priori];,- Masterton and the late Mr. W. L. Lucena, has pusei his entnnoe examination for Oxford. ■ Mi Luoena went Home when quite a child, am . iras educated at Marlborough College. H goes to Merton. The following further subscriptions to th Unemployed Belief Fond are acknowledged — E. E. Bannister, jei Is; Bey. J. Paterson £2 ; 0. T. BatMn, 41 la j Bishop of Wei lington,4sss. Tote} to date, .£792 3s,