SOME NOTES ABOUT BOWLS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13996, 31 August 1907, Page 14

SOME NOTES ABOUT BOWLS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON. July 19, Tho subject, of a visit of an English toam of bowlers to New Zealand and Australia was advanced a further stage in a discussion by tho International Board of the English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh Bowling Associations. This was during the championship meeting at Newcastlo-on-Tync, which closed at the end of last week. The decision arrived at was unanimously in favour of endeavouring to send out a representative combination. Tho associations in question aro comprised of 500 clubs, embracing about 40,000 members, and from this it would appear passible to obtain 16 representatives so as to form four rinks

—a number which the late Mr John Young, president of tho Now South Wale 6 Bowling Association, maintained should not be exceeded in relation to any bowling itinerary ill another country.

A leading- official laking (art in tho Newcastle Championship meeting slated, in the course of an interview, that- there did not appear to him to lie the slightest probability of n team ever going-- oil tour to tho greotts under tho Southern Cross. A prominent London bowler, however, Mr A. Outts, vice-president of tho Sylvan Bowling .Club, 6pealring at a reception cf provincial players in London this week, oontended that the. .team for the colonies' project should. scarcely have any real difficulties associate! with it. Bowlers were, in the luwn, ho.noted, business mon, and commercial affairs luid certainly, become in somo measure bound up with tho game. Thus thpro ought to bo no difficulty in getting together a sufficient _ number of bowlers ablo to combine business pursuits in tho colonics with that of pleasure in relation to a twir in Now Zealand. Then, . farther, it. was pointed out that, from a health ..point, of view, a visit to that, great sanatorium of the South—New Zealand— •was in itself ' a factor which should still .further load to the advancement of ..the i movement. • Although iho Ken* Zealand team does not appear likely to play any further contest,' an endeavour is boin? niado to have tho oolonv represented at the pageant at Carkbroofco Castle, which takes place, under tho presidency of Princess Henry of Battenberg, during tho first week in August. Before the present team arrived in England aji invitation was forwarded by tho C'arabrooko Bowling Club asking it to atten (It ho pageant, ono, of tlie features of which is to be King Charles I playing bowls on tire Carisbrooko Green (luring his inearooration as a State prisoner. It was upon this ground that the young Princcfs Elizabeth, the daughter of Charles I, played at bowls—a sport which she much delighted in,—and lier last game had a fatal ending. A sudden shower fell duriny its progress, sho took a chill, which developed into a fever from which she succumbed. To Mr ». Wnkenian, who remains in England until November, an antiqnan- of many parts, the Carisbrooko Pageant, covering •an era from the year 1300 A.D. to 1900, will cspooially appeal, and he hopes to be present- Should no other member of the team • it to '" > 'ho colony will certainly have a .worthy representative in the botvler of tho Pahiatua Olub. To cure rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or lumbago you must treat the blood. Hie beat remedy is Rhkui/o, which has cured thousands of sufferers. From all stores and chemists at. 2s 6d and 4s Gd. Givo it a fair trial,. ■ .