NELSON RUGBY UNION.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12503, 2 April 1909, Page 1

NELSON RUGBY UNION.

xr A ' s P e ?i al general meeting of the 1 2& B D? y A Was he^ W" evening Dr. Andrew • occupying tlm i chair, about 30 delegates &"# P r e ! 'm^ f £! lmv '»g amendments were ment 5n Si V (1) Parhal am^- - raent to rule 7, section A: "The Chair- ' man to have an affirmative, and If I necessary, a casting vote." (i)Thlt «w shall be five classes, namely i tenfor, junior, second junior third .= class and fourth class, and clubs af te^entenng their first fifteen in' the highest grade, must complete the cient evidence to prove to the Managei me it Comimttee that they are entitWl )to exception; also -t] lat 4e classS tion rule be strictly enforced." (3) S B W c 5 ; 9^ tion G > »c struck out f r Th f f, v . le iO, section G, be altered ' any ZJ J ;, CIU A wh J ch sha]l forfeit any match m the Cup fixtures without . the consent of the Management Commrttee shall be fined a sum up to £* ■ with a minimum ss, the amount tq be computed by the Management Committee. ■ . i At a meeting of the: Management -Committee held subsequently, the Nelson Club were granted permission i to use No. lground at Trafalgar Park , on.Saturday, April 17th. The affilia- , tion of the Kia Ora (Huia and Riwaka I combined) Club was accepted, and ; their colours tfere registered as light green and black (wide- hoops). Entries tor all competitions were extended till April 15th. The secretary .was instructed to have goal posts erected bclore Easter. "-.■ ■

Pastor Wagner, author- of "The I simple Life," and formerly minister ; of a church in an American village, 1 has taken charge of a large congroga- ■ tion in Paris. Of the change "an American writer observes : The call of : the city has caused a change of residence to the preacher, and may bring a change to.his philosophy. The New York correspondent .of the London. "Sporting Life," writing on 12th January, said: "Alfred - Sh'rubb has created a sensation in this city of daily sensati jns v His defeat of a trio of qualified opponents was admittedly the most marvellous running reat even witnessed in New York. Shrubb won as he liked by 3i laps in'lhr smin 57 sec, beating Dorando's time for the same distance by smin 30 4-ssec. Walter Schlishter, of Philadelphia, himself a good runner in his amateur days, says of Shrubb : 'Here is what we often read about — a perfect human running machine. He. is the greatest runner we ever saw in this country, and I don't think they can produce another like him where he came from. 1 " A story, told by the late Mr Ira D. Sankey, against himself, has- recently been, revived. Qne day .'ln Geneva he entered a musical box shop and asked to see some musiqal boxes. The salesman showed him a number but none of 'them wa3 what he.waht'ed. "Havo you none that play sacred music?" he a3ked. "Why," answered the salesman, "we have -some that play a kind of half way sacred music." "What?" .inquired Mr Sankey. "Oh, those Moody and Sankey hymns. I can't imagine what people see in them but we seU thousands of the- boxes that play them.. We have enormous orders," continued the salesman ; and then he added, apologetically; "it's a matter of business, you know, with US." .. : A banker going home from his dinned saw a ten dollar bill on the curbstone. He' picked it up arid noted the number and went home to dinner. While at home his wife re--marked that thebutcherlhad sent a bill amounting to ten dollars. The only money he. had with him \vas the bill he had found, which he gave to her, and she paid the butcher. The butcher paid it to the farmer for a calf, and the farmer paid it to the merchant, who in turn paid it to a washwoman, -and she, owing the banker a note of ten dollars, went to-the* bank and paid the note. The banker recognised the bill as the one he had found and which, up to that time, had paid 50 dollars of debt. On careful investigation he discovered that the bill was counterfeit. •-■ Now will -some friend tell us what has been lost in this transaction-, arid -by whom? — U. T.A. Bulletin. . — Perhaps the happiest man alive today in Brussels is a 3'oung mechanician named Michel Vonander, for his fiancee has given him the highest possible proof of the depth_ of h«r affection. Michel, is the possessor of a golden heard and moustache,, which are the envy of all his companion's. One day, a dark thought crossed his" mind. What if his sweetheart, Marie Staen, only loved him for his beard and not- for himself. The thought was unbearable, and he resolved to stake his whole future on a test of the girl's love. He sent her a heart-rend-ing letter telling^ her she was free. He had sustained a severe injury to his face and had been obliged to shave. She. must never see him again for she would not_even know hun. As soon as Marie recovered from the first shock of the news slie " drove -in great agitation to his'flat, and jan upstairs,, crying out that she loved him, clean shaven or not. ,To her amazement the young man himself ! met Jier at the door, with a face a« I hirsute as ever. . He implored her for- ' giveness and the two:will be married. I ____..■