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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9288, 14 January 1892, Page 2

A cricket match botwoen tho Now Plymouth and Urariui Clubs was played on tho racecourse this afternoon. Bishop Julius, in a sonnon to the Fir° Brigades, said '' Chriatchurch is a wonderful place lor lying, gossiping, and scandal mongering. It was a wonderful place for spreading scandal, and ho .vonld to God for a Firo Brigade to spread a little cold wator upon them, or a littlo hot. 11 11 Puff," in the Wellington Press, thus describes the lecture by tho great African explorer :— " Did you go to Stanley's lecture on the pigmies and cannibals? I wont to his lecturo and hoard hiiu build up a frame work of forest and mountains and and plateauß for 'em, but lie didn't fill it in with much pigmy or cannibal to speak of ! I Know there was a woman pigmy in Africa, becauso ho paid ho made a sort of exhibition of one in puiis vutunibilus to his cunip ; but what the pigmy people are like ■and what aro their manners and customs ho will probably continue in \\h next! Stauloy is pretty good at gotting through Africa, but he's a precious poor hand at telling us what ho saw there ! Why, a stranger could walk up Lanibton Quay on a Saturday night, and give a better and more interesting lecture on what came under his notice in our littlo humdrum I city than Stanley giveß of strange, mighty, nnu wonderful Africa ! lie pitches a good yarn about tho bush he wene through, but doosn't describe a single tree or a plant, or j>a bird, bbeastt t or reptile individually ! Ilis j' wonderful piece of word-painting ' of the' brush was exactly liko the dab of paint which shored it on his map — just a bluri I say you're rough on the lion ! Dash my j ' , buttons, you know, I went to learn seme- • thing !" I