BOWLING.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIV, 29 November 1920, Page 2

BOWLING.

THE KEESING CUP. * .RETAINED BY PATEA. A rink of bowlers from the Gonvillc Club paid a visit to Patea on Saturday and endeavoured to capture the Kccsing Cup. The local team, skipped by the veteran Carey, however, more than held their own, and itlic visitors had to acknowledge (defeat by L’O points. The green was in first-class order, and played splendidly, thanks dn a great measure to the superintendence of Mr. .T. Dwyer, who is to be congratulated- on the success of his efforts. The following arc the scores:— Patea. —Halbert, W. Paterson, Elliott, and Carey (skip)—,‘!d. Gonvillc. —Banks, Smith, Svenscn, Steele, and Corby (skip)—l3.

Tho adjournment 1 of Parliament sometimes causes perplexity among the country clergy as ‘to whether the prescribed prayer for tho Houses of Parliament, “at this time assembled,” should be continued, writes the Morning Post. A former warden of Merton College, Oxford, once attended service at a remote moorland church where this ditlicully arose. AVhen he came to the prescribed collect the clergyman leaned over to where the clerk was sitting and asked in a very a-udiblo whisper, “Is Parliament sittingf” “I don’t know,” replied the clerk. “Shall 1 say the prayer for them?” asked the (rector. “Well,” in a confidential shout from the clerk, “1 think you had better pray for them, because they’re a bad lot.”