TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11056, 23 August 1907, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

The body of Pearson Davies was conveyed to Te Aute and interred theie. Mi- and Mrs S. Earle leave for Sydney m the morning, and uill probably be absent from Gisborne for a year or more. Mr Earle has disposed of his Gisboine business, and with Mrs Earle is making a tour chiefly for health reasons. The final trial match for the purpose of selecting the Poverty Bay representative team to visit Hawke's Bay next weqk will be played to-morrow, when it is hoped that there will be a large attendance 0 f players. The team will be finally chosen at the conclusion of the game. Mr W. Howard will act as referee. In the junior trial match Air Hallamore has been appointed to control, and Mi- J. Somervell will take the third-grade game. Mr H. J. Bull writes to the London press:— "May I, as the leader of the Norwegian commercial expedition that was wrecked last! December on one of the Crozet Islands (Indian Ocean) beg the indulgence of a few lines m your valued columns to tender the thanks of myself and my 10 rescued shipmates to the British nation for the use of the provision depot so thoughtfully placed there m 1880, by Captain East, R.N. (His Majesty's ship Comus), and particularly to the New Zealand Snipping Company, for tlie kindness shown to us by Captain Francis Forbes and the crew of their steamship Turakina, which rescued us after a sojourn of nearly three months on a desolate island. Only castaways can appreciate our feelings of joy on exchanging the misery of our existence on the island for the palatial comfort of the big English steamer, but everyone will understand our appreciation of the comEany's genreous action— of which I only card to-day — m waiving its claim for salvage, and leaving it to the Norwegian Government to make what compensation they think proper." In concluding an article on "Sport and Progress," the Taranaki Herald says: — "Little wonder, therefore, that m every township m the colony is to be found a ground. Tlie exuberant spirits of youth and adolescence must find a, vent m some direction or another, and it is far better to let the. safety valve be that of play than hooliganism. The greater the prosperity of a district the more energy will 'be displayed m outdoor sports of all kinds, ahd by parity of reasoning, the more skill shown m play the greater success will be achieved m industrial matters. One of 1 the chief reasons for the existence of that deeply-root-ed confidence m the future of Taranaki is the energy displayed by the residents. Wanganui may weft be proud of its aquatic cliampion, arid other centres may rejoice m their own peculiar advantages. So long as we take care to build up a healthy, vigorous race, /there need be no fear of the natural expansion of our prosperity. H, and when, the period arrives m, which a decadence is seen m manly sports," so surely will that epoch mark the moral, physical, and intellectual retrogression of the people accompanied by a downward trend of material prosperity. May its advent be deferred for all time.