“ENGLAND'S LESSON.”

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5804, 23 January 1906, Page 7

“ENGLAND'S LESSON.”

MR ROVVDA.N!) HILL I’OLNTS Till: MORAL (!A PTA IN CA RTWRt G MTS COM I'Ll M KiNT. Our (.^orroKporuk-iit Owmiher O. On S.aurd-ty ov*anng inohi, t-f r,)iA ircm fjt f.u#* Nr.v <u;nbiiiiLT.um n-j>.ijii'd. ar the inv:ta - ,i»>n oi the lU.:' bv i najrj. to tho Trfx-i'ivro. h-‘ !> n-yi'-tcl ~;m1 in Mv iiov.Uml HAI . tor tinot.hAr than i hv .\aw t* a;n and th*»ir oj>jxjiM*nt.- :t f ■ Ji*‘ Pai.af •.vcic t.nA Kir! </i lUuiin.tlv. I.nrd Kinnairrl. tho Moil \V. I*. .. dr H. liurn. ii .Now Zetland Uy an Kn.:i:.di icam). an.] afr \V. K. .Mada-au oM in?<-r----it if-iomtl;. i J'/fm nm um- of th.> m-dit -A,o tlie tre- * mr.ndouj> wi.h v/h.rh all th*j v,-... <• at I tfh-ir uprfMn;; ant! (J’.t-ir .iA-.vn-nii tui;'. I In o.vm c ” T/w JSVv Z' J '-i.d T* am.' ! JMr St>>Aiand Hill t ho ! viator; warmly on tlunr anliroia n j f,r t T\u <*vis»*K. ititcl thanki tl tli*un ! fur th*- I.m/n whh*]i thr*y had "ivAn i our (t-UAhv j»! yAr-.. and alxj for t h«* I [oval su[i|K»rt S*r.v /.ta!and dcvoUT.- ol I th-- ;::rn - Juitl ffivn to Urn unions of j Hntai.M in | IV^wionaliKm. I!;j/j)! v/011. lie conclmlfyl. mifclii tho >W Z«‘j>lan<lorti bo protKl of thoir tk.t. forrinun-fT-i. ;tn<! whon they vrenf hack. : 111Ay would, ho was fiuro, toll hovv in tho , Old' Count ry f.hoy had mot some who lovod thoir sport, had irttatotl as n{Kjrt. % !r:K*M. and who wished to Ktondf.rtlv tipboM tho principle of playlnj; • for {bo hive r»r rJir -amc alone. lie r<> | hi.; seat amid a hurricane of apphi urt'. ?.fr J>. rJrdbhcr. in aoknowled^irte

tin. tonal. said that, thoy had in England mot with clean sport and sportsmen. and, as cousins from across the sons and ohipn of the old block, had a r .• wl, : ch exceeded all expectations. They had tome- home to wake up the Old Country, which had. in its eon(W.pvatire spirit, gone to sleep. They i wanrod to stir up John KnTl a little, though when they once stirred him up he might want a lot of stopping. I Mr G H. Dixon also replied. The sueeiw of his side, ho said, had exeeod-„-l their most eaneytino hopeo, though they thought they hud p.ot together a fairly good tixitn. and might, win a few 'iimtoh-NS. They had through the long controversy on professionalism Iv-m .-dvobirtely loyal to the Mother Union, and -were no still. Football, he

thought, did good in after life. There were in it hanl leivons given in a hard way, but it was a great thing to learn to Dike hard knock; with a smile, and in a snort.snri.nUki' way. They hoped to MX* a return visit paid to New Zealand at. no very distant date. Such a visit would lie of great benefit. Having given, before .sitting down, “The English Team.' 1 he was greeted by the eoloniahi with one of their “crien.” air H. V. Cartwright, heartily received, raid ho was afraid they hud been rather badly beaten, and would rather He in print "15 points" than “five trios.” It looked better. (Loud laughter.) Thoir victors were a fine side, and he now wished they would go through the our undefeated; they dill not deserve to lose. If this was only "a fairly gov! team," they could keep their "good un».” 'AVe don’t want ’em.’' ho udilcd, amid applause. Perhaps Flightnd had l<een iisleop. In conclusion of a brief, but pithy and manly Bpeeeh. he plaecxl the colonial team as “among the best set of s-portomon” ho had ever met.

Mr Crane (vioe-preoident R..F.U.) proponed ‘"llio C’olotrief.,” with “Tinporinl Fnitv” as his text. Karl Ranfiirly, 0.C.M.0.. and the Hon. IV. P. ID'evoi aekn ov/lislgi ng. Tile formoris h-ngthy oration dwelt on the rise of the Mcrthor Country and colonies which bound the Unpin- together, anil had a flattering reference to the ox-Colonial Secretary. Idle latter dwelt on the value of combination both in football and as an attribute of the British Km■'■r\ and said that the translation of the firat lines of their Maori war cry ‘ln death, in de-ith—in life, in life—ave are one together.” He also made an amusing allusion, amid laughter. to a fo-eb-d! mutch ho had witjie: rsl lovidcntly under Association rtile-1. in which three of one team and four of the other were local men. and the rest came from “Syria,” at £-1 per There were novoral other Hpeeehen and a irmrical entertainment to while away the time till the approach of midnight, and tho exigencies of the licensing laws brought a very pleasant evening to a close.