Croquet.

Opunake Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2052, 3 April 1914, Page 2

Croquet.

The Opunake Club journed to Manaia. on Saturday to play the Manaia Club. The home team won by 63 points. The following are the scores (Manaia players mentioned first in each case) : DOUBLES. Mrs Christie and Mrs Donald 28, Mrs O'Brien and Mrs Thompson 19. Mrs Armitage and Mrs Mclvor 28. Mrs Barron and Mrs Parkes 20 Miss Stoddart and Mrs Giltnour 28, Mrs Thorpe and Mrs Arthur 14. SINGLES. Mrs Donald 10, Mr; Thompson 28 Mrs Mclvor 28 Mrs Barron 14. Mrs Oorißtie 28, Mrs O’Brien 24. Mrs Armisage 28, Mrs Parfees 14. Mrs Snowden 28, Mrs Clarke 19. Mrs Powell 28, Mrs Thorpe 18. Totals : Manaia 234, Opunake 170, Harry Lauder arrived at Sydney and was given a great ovation. A procession, headed by pipers, conducted him to his hotel. Thousands lined the streets. Twenty-four years ago, Mr 0. W. Vanderlip, of Greenville, Michigan, got up from his lunch and went back to his little mus r c store with the parting injunction from Mrs Yanderlip to bring back a pound of tea. A couple of weeks ago Vanderlip wandered into the house for the first time since be went away. He had forgotten the tea, but had made a fortune in the Klondyke and at Los Angeles, A writer in The Financier, a London journal, says New Zealand will be out for a further sum of £3,250,000, in the market again before the end of this year, but this will not make an addition to the public debt of the Dominion, the money being required to raeot the uacovcr:d porlidu of the loan raised by Sir J. G. Ward four years ago, and which falls due in November next.”