EXTENSION OF THE MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE.

Evening Star, Issue 9387, 8 May 1894, Page 4

EXTENSION OF THE MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—"Penates" has kindly come to the assistance of "H. E. Muir" (the assistance is timely and needed) and supplied another rendering of the A and B theory. It is capable of infinite permutation. The A's and B's of "H. E. Muir" and "Penates are, of their respective kinds, pure in breed but limited in number, and are much improved by judicious crossing. I thought I belonged to the A's, but as propounded by "Penates" I find myself considerably hybridised—in fact a veritable mongrel, but, as luck will have it, with the character: tetios of the B preponderating.!

Every man has a " right" to enioy the fruits of hisowninduttry. Let us apply this axiom to " Penatß's " A and B. As a starter in life's. eventful race no one could bo more impartial. '. He has not allowed his little petty prejudices against B to handicap him—they ate both sent 1 on their journey with a fair and evon start; but 1 . at tho winning-post B comes in fifteen lengths ' behind, and it will take a lot of philosophy to '. persuade a reflective people that ho is entitled i to the stakes. s "What! is tho man whose careful prudence . has kept in check his carnal appetite till such time as circumsta'.cos permitted its indulgence , without the risk of pauperising his offspring, ; and the man who indulges his lustful sensuality ! in producing a family without duo provision for its maintenance, entitled to, and to he vested ; with, equal rights of citizenship? t I came from "under the tub" to explain 1 that such a conclusion is not " utter rot,' but i " the utterist rot."-1 am, etc., [ Rksposhijilb. Duncdin, May 7. THE SENIOR CHALLENGE CUP. ' TO THE EDITOR. Silt,—l beg permission to occupy a part of i your columns in answer to the letter of "Sclfl respect" anent the above matter, which appeared in your paper last week. f Before proceeding to show your correspondent ' how Carisbrook A won the cup, allow me to say that " Self-respect" has proved himself a first--1 rate concocter of false statements ;in fact, he ! lias played the part of scavenger well in collect- ' ing a mass of falsehood to hurl at the Carisbrook 1 Cricket Club. This is p'ainly the object of i "Self-respect's" letter—not merely a request i for an answer to the query how Carisbrook won , the cup. , The records of the Carisbrook A, Grange, and Opoho teams for the past season arc as follow: . t....... Matches W(1 „ r . -Un- ; lea,n - Played. Won - Lobt finished. Carisbrook A ~.8 Oil Orange 8 5 2 1 . Opoho 8 5 2 1 Now, of the six wins credited to Carisbrook, i " Self-respect" has nothing to say re wins Duu- . edin (1), Albion (2), ard Opoho (1). The latter t refers to the match in the first round, when Carisbrook defeated Opoho by an innings and f 65 runs. There arc therefore two wins to be explained. I 1. Carisbrook Av. Carisbrook li. This match f was commenced on one Saturday, and completed ! on ono evening about five weeks afterwards. On i the first day B scored 171, and A2\ for two ' Wickets. On the second day (fixed by mutual • consent) A continued its innings, and knocked t up the required number of runs for the loss of ! six wickets. In this innings Fisher did not reach double figures. Your correspondent then [ makes the following statement:—"Mr Lawton ' bowled a ball on the second Saturday, and claimed the match, but by a private arrango- " ment this was disallowed." Here "Self-rc- < s'pect'' draws largely on his stock of imaginaI tion. The facts are Lawton neither bowled a - ball nor c aimed the match, and, what is moro - important to my nv'nd, no pri ate arrangement was ever made. •r If anyone told "Self-respect" such an ? arrangement was made, then he was "had." [ I do not make the suggestion that " Solf- ( respect" wilfully made sucli a statement with- , out any authority for doing so. 1 2. Av. Grange (return match). ' Both Saturt days ior whio i this game was fixed were so wet t that play was impossible. The Cup Committee i decided that the match should be pi »yed out . on Good Friday, as I assume the result would r determine who should hold the cup (with apologies to Opoho for this assumption). No l doubt tliis arrangement would spoil the Easter holidays, but it was just as inconvenient for Carisbrook as for Orange. More so, in fact, as " from all accounts Park*, r was the only leading [l player who went out of town. Let me remind "Self-respect" tkat on the t same Good Friday Carisbrook B and Albion e played off their return match. Last season Opoho played Grange at Easter. The season previous to that Grange played "Warehousemen off the for the cup on Good Friday. It was, therefore, no innovation which the Cup Committee were thrusting on the players, and having decided so the <..\ip Committee were properly justified in not allowing any team to defy their I orders.

As to the present match, "Self-respect," who evidently holds a brief for the Grange, complains of want of "official " notice, this fact is, however, admitted : the Grange had ample notice of the decision of tin: Cup Committee jn.st as much as Carisbrook. I may also say (hat the (srange secretary did not send me any protest giving full and satisfactory reasons for not playing. >'o written communication passed between the two clubs, nor did the Grange secretary have the courtesy to inform the Cricket Association that his club declined to play. I inquired from the Association if any such notice had been sent, so that I could inform the members of the Carishrook team if they were required to stay in town.

As to the Opoho's return match with Carisbrook, on the first day Carisbrook made 209, Opoho three wickets down fcr H. ("Selfrespect" here has the audacity to assert that Car.sbrook had the best of the game.) On the second day the weather was so bad that only the Opoho teams and Burnside Kleven thought fit to play. Opoho journeyed to Carisbrook Ground, but Carisbrook A did not, claiming that the weather would not permit of play. By the rules ot cricket (of which " Self-respect" is wholly ignorant) the umpires are sole judges of weather, and in this instance these ollicials distinctly stated that it would not permit play. The Cup Committee had therefore nothing to decide, but if anything granted a favor to the Opoho in ordering the match to be played out on or before the 14th April. The Opoho declined, and the match remains unfinished. It is invariably a habit that a parson who desires to slander another uses a nom deplume when writing to the newspapers. "Selfrespect " is no exception to the rule. For my part I decline to take any further notice of "Self-respect's" communications unless he signs his real name. I will then have a chance of judging if he is an autho ity on cricket matters —I am, etc., D. Cooke, Hon. Sec. Carisbrook Cricket Club. Dunedin, May 1.