OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 28, Issue 1455, 18 September 1897, Page 3

OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS

■■- : PATEAROA. "';""'"■_ .Postponement. The entertainment in connection with the *ocal;Band'of Hope, has 'been farther post-poned'-until-Friday, the 24th inst. r CHTTKCH mattebs. The Eev. Mr Griffiths, of Mid,dlemarch, who has exchanged with Mr Cawley, for a occupied our pulpit last Sunday 'evening, 'and preached a thoughtful and logical "(Sermon \o ah. overflowing church. \For a'considerable time back that has indeed Tbeen the normal condition of our church—at least When our own minister preached—and is more than likely that the schoolroom will Tiave' to be requisitioned for the summer 'months. The heat in our little iron church . *cn -a warra iright, with lamps blazing and the congregation tightly packed together, is i ' -far from pleasant, and although the school is 'rather further away for a good many of the 'people the road 'to it is gbod.the evenings are Invariably fine, and the additional comfort 'derived from sitting in a roomy and wellventilated building ought to more than com'pensate pedestrians fbi the slight trouble mecessary to reach it. the summeb GAME. The annual meeting of the Patearoa ■"pricket club, was held on Saturday evening last, iir W. Hall, jun., presided. The following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing season -.—President, E.. M. T'urhbull, Esq.; Vice-presidents, Messrs G. Simpson, J. Eeid, and T. Hall; captain, J. Crerar, (last -years' captain, Mr F. Schrick, declined '-, deputy-captain and treasurer, 'John Wilson; secretary, P. Schrick. The "captain, deputy-captain, secretary, and O. Cambridge were appointed a committee of Tnanageme'nt. A 'season's experience of a pitch composed of arable land in i'ts virgin state having proved entirely unsatisfactory "to everybody but the bowlers, a cement pitch ■will be laid down before play begins for the "year. Provided the new pitch is truly formed —and every cart will be taken to attain 'that desirablft end—the batsmen may 'with confidence look forward to an improvement in their play, and will not be under •the disadvantage, in an out match, of playing on a 'faster pitch than they have been accustomed to. To a playekjfho has been in habit of knocking up; "uvfew runs on an unimproved ground, : and "who has thereby become an expert in art of allowing the 'ball the correct amount of windage—the said windage being, consequent ; npon the various 'obstructions offered to the bill's, progress by : such .prod nets of soil as tussocks, thistles, and " buffaloes," it is rather disappointing to •find, on a fast and uhfamilrar wicket, that he has made a fascinating forward stroke—quite in the style bf the pictures in the cricket books—at about the Same time as the umpire is re-erecting the stumps. Our boys 'can field fairly well j they have some very 'promising bowlers, and if the new and good 'wicket should be the means, as it blight td be, 'of altering the somewhat pre-historic style of 'several of the batsmen, into something a little iritire up-to-date, I vcntiirb to predict that opposing rjlubs of anything like their Own -THXSi&Qs will find them worthy foes.—(Hyde criraetere please note). . KcpJcinberi 13th, 1897.