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Otago Daily Times, Issue 5336, 27 March 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

As it has been currently reported that a Victorian bookmaker was one of the ringleaders in the disgraceful scene enacted upon the Sydney ci'ickct-ginuud vheii tho English umpire's decisi n w.i-> que^.ionu'l, I have been requested tool.itc (\n ill-.-* " -E^len'" in the Australasian) that tliero ii 9 nut tho »1 iyi itcs-t truth in tho statement. It Ims lireu stated that Air Joseph Thompson. was the delinquent, but lie the. he nor any other V dorian member of the ring was present at tho match, J\!r Thompson not arriving in Sydney until the row was over. The bookmaker referred to is a member of the Sydney letting ring I mention this in a spirit of justice to those who have been wrongly, charged with creating ;i disturbance at the match be* twecu the English, and Sydney Elevens. TLo coiuuiisiinn a pum ci by M. de Freycimt to ci ns'der tie mt-ai t, of enabling French mr.'hein coil-fields still to compete with KnulNh sfle- tl c di ej»ninsj < f the Seine have decided in favour of a iaual from Patis.' It wo.H p»ss by Cieil, Am.tiis, and Beauvaia, uud woi'l I ni> carried 1 otw cju the Somrce and v^cirpe \ a leys to Ciois'lcs, where one branih \vouid bo to i) o Paa.dtfQ^ ai)4 «»otber to> tlq Anpm cpal-fieltj, - •