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New Zealand Mail, Issue 758, 10 September 1886, Page 23

■f.jg:® visit of the New South Wales football team deserves a little more than passing notice. This is the second visit to this Colony which has been made by the footballers of Australia, while one team of New Zealanders has returned the compliment. Such exchanges as this tend to increase the popularity of manly games, while at the same time they must to a great extent promote friendly relationsjbetween the people of the colonies. Anything but an unsatisfactory feature of these visits is the almost invariable success of the New Zealanders on the football field. The first New South Wales team won very few matches here ; and the New Zealand team that visited Australia. made an unbroken record of victories. The present visiting team have won one and lost two matches ; and it is worthy of note that they were badly beaten in Wellington, where the former team scored a win. On the whole it may safely be said that whatever Australia can teach 2S ew Zealand in. cricket or the world in sculling, she cannot teach us football.

A contemporary says: —“ There are now 100 subscribers to the Wanganui Telephone Exchange, and it seems no more are wanted, as any above that number will have to pay an increased rate of subscription. This is a singular style of doing business.” It is much more like a singular lack of comprehension. The paragraph is a very unfair attack on the Post mas ter-General. Sir Julius Vogel whose liberal and judicious concessions to smaller towns where telephone exchanges may be established, is thus crossly misrepresented. The facts are these :—The regular rate of subscription for the first year to. the telephone exchanges already established is LlO per subscriber. But to encourage the introduction of this great public convenience into the smaller towns, Sir Julius Vofel arranged that in the case of any new exchange a reduction should be made at the rate of LX per head for the first 100 subscribers, who therefore pay

L 9 each instead of LlO. All, old and new, pay alike L 8 in the second year. The plan seems to us a very good one.