FOOTBALL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 8546, 15 June 1896, Page 1

FOOTBALL.

A football match was played on Saturday at Fairview, between the Kingsdown Warriors and the Mossdalers, and ended in a win for the latter by 24 points to 8. The game was well contested and very exciting, but the Dalers were rather strong in the forward division, and carried nearly all the scrums. There were a fair number of spectators present. Afternoon tea was provided for the players only. The best players for the losers were Kerr (3), and Tennant, and for the winners Jonas (2) and Lewis. The return match will probably be played at Kingsdown in about a fortnight, and it is expected to be a much better match in favour of the Kingsdown Warriors. It has not been decided what day it is to be played, but depends on the holiday in town. The following will represent the Colonial Ist in their match with the Star Ist to be played on the Caledonian Grounds on Thursday, play to commence at 3 p.m. : -Moore, Shirtcliffe, Malcolmson, Hassall, Smith, Rodgers, Mara, Oxby, O’Callaghan, Healey, Niall, Bourn, Lack, Sibly, Eganj also the 2nd fifteen in their match with the Star 3rd in the park:—Ogden, G. Childs, O. Niall, J. Wail, Webb, A. Finnie, Avison, Malcolmson, Childs, Spinks, Leslie, Gregory, Dash, Stapleton. Cuthbert. Emergencies—back : W. Aimers, D. Finnie; forward: Guthrie, W. Wall, J. Jones.

Tiie stock sale at St. Andrews on Friday was a very good one all round, there being a fair attendance and an excellent yarding. Three-quarter-bred wethers sold at 13s 3d, breeding ewes to 8s 6d, fat ewes to 11s 3d, lambs to 9s Id, and hoggets to 7s 2d. There was practically no demand for cattle.

A London correspondent writes: — When Lord Elgin went to India, the native papers received his nomination as Viceroy with a chorus of commendation, apparently on the assumption that because he was a Liberal he would be able immediately to set right everything that was wrong. Now, because in the short space of two years he has not been able to accomplish all the reforms they wished for, the native writers are giving vent to their disappointment in very strong language. One of the papers, of which several are to hand by the last mail, describes his lordship as “ a nerveless and verveless man, whom all India has pronounced to be a dummy Viceroy,” and his Government is characterised as “ mendacious, which works in secret and fears daylight.”

Otago Daily Times , July 25th, 1892, says : “ We have received samples of Gawne and Co.’s locally-manufactured sauce—mild and piquant. The bottles are neatly got up, and the quality of the contents appears to be quite up to the standard of all other sauces before the public. As it is a local industry it should be encouraged.”—[Advt.] Nelson’s old vessel, Foudroyant, which was some three years ago repurchasedfrom a German shipbreaker, will shortly be placed on exhibition near London. She is being restored in every respect to the condition in which she was in when Nelson’s flag flew from her masthead.* She will carry the greater part of the original armament of 88 guns, and the guns are actually those in use when the ship was in commission. It is proposed to dress the crew in the costume of the period. When the Foudroyant once more sails the seas, instead of being ignominiously towed from port to port, she will be the only existing fully rigged, armed, and manned specimen of the “ wooden walls ” of England and of the most glorious epoch in the history of the navy. • After being on view for a short time in the Thames the Foudroyant will visit the Naval Exhibition at Kiel. It is intended during the summer to sail her back to England and exhibit her at, all the principal ports in the United Kingdom. It is contemplated also that the vessel should eventually visit the colonies and the United States.