BOWLING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10908, 12 November 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOWLING.

OPENING OF TOpotabowusg Patea Bowling Club's ereen P ° f thc most complimentary gathering oPhn*! 5 from the New Plymouth Era& and Wanganui Clube, The visitors JU y ! at the station and received hv ttin ? J mE^ Adjournment m ma to the ween a ft~ refreshments, where Mr p„„i ®-, ' er recognised father of bowling in New Zealand at the request of the DreeirW it ca aM 1 club, addressed tho pS Id Lid the compliment paid Cft teing asked t be present to open the green He Wi • view of that day's ceremony, three or four days ago telegraphed to his frieS! LC Edwin, asking mm to arrange for «y"",TO unt f the ' bUt 1111(1 D °- t reCeived answer uutfl the previous evening, when Edwin UA rephed, stating that Mr.' Braggo ™ M? Wragge, or some BUo '' name ' had wired te say that he had an assorfcmwnf of ™ . over the other side that he wanted tTglt

I him tb countermand d imd th( !he would do he fr ; end had circumstances, an d i,l donn the certainly keot » «° r d treated them so best he could, an ! y find th tDO , ng badly after all. IW m mout , and as their to, a » a S^l n ' m 0 known, and the game excellent, green beca . membership of played, they <Lf * idly, as would also the club increase v u. Ho would now ask visits from other club . ordei that Mrs. Gibson to throw formally opened. Ml the green migh . , anc Mr. Paul Gibson then ~ s j ie (brow hamded her the • ' boW i; ng fashion, and across the {T?.fM bo°wling in New'zea Mr. Paul the fthe« (keen forland, declared the A match {or a tria mally opened for p.) , otween north and of skill was then rang. sou", player p^ tea , 'Waverley, and WanHawera agamst la . North winm ganui (seven rinks aucie,, « Northi 169 by '?. South 143. The unbounded succe* points; ooutill, t „ ma miy uuo ° f arrangements made by the t0 (Mr Gibson) for the reception and president (Mr. I immediate control ontcrtaining urn Qjbson. A smoke conand direction of M O bsom cert was held m the eienu s, toasts honoured. M-« pau]) the Hl«^Tno 0 w Zetland ling. Mr. Paul, I father of M company for honouring fto ft d he had been Entrusted with small commission, and he would ask perm,, I on to use that opportunity of carryin 0 it °t He had a small presentation to make ,l' .... which gave extreme pleasure, "both the donor and recipient were very old friends Cottier (the donor) and Mr. Griffiths (recipient). There was a slight hisS attached''to the gift, which consisted of a nearl mounted on a gold scarf-pin. Mi. Griffiths was having some oysters with a number of friends at the Criterion Hotel, thou Cottier's, when Cottier was nearly _ choked with a large pearl, a fate from which -Ir. Griffiths savod him. He had therefore had it mounted in gold, and he (Mr. Paul) now asked Mr. Griffitna to accent it with Mr. Cottier's compliments. Mr. Paul proposed "The Press, and in doing so said he recognised how very muoh bowlers were indebted to the press lor the trouble representatives went tc m reporting their meeting, games and ceremonies, as that liberality enabled bowlers of different clubs at their own fireside to watch how their friends were faring all over the colony, and what were the results o the various tournaments and contests and he willingly acknowledged how much they were indebted to the press for that liberality.