FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 20

FOOTBALL.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, THE MAORIS IN WALES. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 20.' The Native footballers played a game at Llanelly (Carmaerthenshire) to-day, and were defeated by a goal to nothing. London, December 23. The international football match, Wales v. the New Zealand Native team, was won by the former by one goal and two tries to nothing. London, December 24. In the match against Swansea, the Maori football team won by a goal and two tries to nothing.

Tho Frenoh engraver, Louis Henriquel Dupont, is, at the ago of 90, in full possession of his sight and skill with the graver, and uses it with the same ease and zeal that he did in the time of Charles X. He began his career as an engraver on copper in 1811. A distinguished Oriental scholar and biblical specialist has, says Tho Times, just passed away, after an unusually industrious and useful oareer. To Bible students and clergymen of all denominations few names are better known than that of Dr Robert Young, the author of the “ Analytical Concordance of the Bible,” “ A New Version of the Bible, translated according to tho Letters and Idioms of the Original Langu 'ge,” “Chronological Index to the Bible—Old and New Testaments,” “Ethics of the Fathers (from the Talmud), with English Version,” etc. Dr Young was a native of Haddingtonshire. In the city of Leeds, England, with a population of over 250,000, not a single labourer or mechanic owns his home. At the beginning' of last month there were only fifty-four miles of i ail way in coarse of construction in New South Wales.