TARANAKI CRICKET CLUB.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7175, 20 September 1886, Page 2

TARANAKI CRICKET CLUB.

The annual meeting of the Taranaki Cricket Club was held at the Criterion Hotel on Saturday evening, Mr. W. F. Downes in the chair. There were about twenty members present. The annual report and balance-sheet were read and adopted. After discussion it was decided that the subscription be raised to £1, and that for country and junior members it be 10s. The following was the result of the election of officers : —President, Mr. W. Bayly ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. O'Carroll and Dr. Leatham; Committee, Meßsrs. Do>vnee, Goldwater, and Blackburn; Secretary, Mr. F. Dalziell ; Captain, Mr. W. F. Downes. Messrs. Downes, Goldwater, and Blackburn were appointed a Committee to canvass for new members. After discussing other matters the meeting adjourned.

We would remind our readers of the Salvation tea this evening.

A football match was played at Waitara on Saturday betw.een Waitara and New Plymouth. The New Plymouth team won by five pointß to two, after a well contested game.

The 'Frisco mail was delivered at tho New Plymouth Post Office at 3 a.m. on Sunday, and sorting was immediately started, and was finished by 6 a.m. The office was open between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. for delivery, and there was a mild form of rush during the hour The Now Plymouth mail consisted of 1492, letters, 450 books, 4850 papers. The Wanganui portion was landed here, but not the Napier, Which went by the Eaßt Coast.

A circular has been issued, emanating from the Education Department at Wellington, to tho Inspectors of Police in the various districts of the colony, instructing them that the police are to keep a look out for truants from school.

The following, which we take from the Home News, shows how ignorant some of the writers in England are of the geography of New Zealand. He says :—": — " News has been received by friends in Ireland that tho King of tho Sandwich Islands has appointed Robert J. Greighton hia Minister of Foreign Affairs. The new Minister of State has had an adventurous life, of peculiar interest to Press m»n. He commenced life as an office boy in an Irish provincial newspaper office, where he wrote the covers ; and, nftor serving his time as a compositor, ho held appointments in Bolfast und Londonderry as a reporter. Subsequently he came to London, and emigrated to- Auckland, where he started the Southern Gross, a Wellington newspaper. From Wellington ho went to Cnlit'ornin, and then settled in Honolulu. His rise there has been rapid, and this moment he figures as His Excellency Robert J. Creighton, Minister of State to tho King of tho Sandwich Islands." The idea of starting a Wellington newspaper in Auckland is Bublirnely ridiculous.

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