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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4509, 2 September 1875, Page 2

September has now arrived, and if a few more fine days occur favorite cricket bats will be taken out from cupboards, from behind partitions, and from other places in which they have been stowed away during the winter months, for a rub with sweet oil, to be polished up, and to be otherwise put in order, in prospect of great doings during the approaching long summer evenings. In view of this, the question is now being frequently asked, " Why have not the proper improvements been made this winter on the Wellington ground 3" This question, too, has been asked not only by active cricketers, but by people who have always taken a warm interest in the usefulness of the enclosure. No one doubts that the trustees are doing their very best with regard to the important trust they have undertaken; but a flax swamp cannot be made into a really good recreation ground for nothing, and to grudge a few pounds at present after the very large sum already expended is like spoiling the ship for the sake of a penny's worth of tar. " Honob and Chakitv" writes to say that he knows the religious sentiments of the New Zealand Times, which is a comfort, as we never knew them ourselves. He exhibits his honor by considering that our religious sentiments, as he says, were manifested by the first appearance of correspondence from "Age of Reason," and by our final refusal to publish more of that correspondence except as advertisements. As our refusal was to publish further correspondence on "Miracles," no matter by whom signed, except as advertisements, it will be seen that " Honor and Charity" scarcely states the case honorably. He exhibits his charity by suggesting that we should give the price of Buch advertisements to the Benevolent Institution, and by calling them blasphemous and scurriilous. That is to say, he would be charitable, in a pecuniary sense, vicariously, by being so at our expense, and, in a moral sense, by calling his opponents hard names.