FOOTBALL.
[lir DAIIOCLKS.] The new rule as to professioralism provides that it is illegal to givo or receive any money testimonial, or receive any modal or other prize for any competition except undov the authority of the Union. The Wellington Rugby Union has yoted.£s to the Brunnerton Relief Fund. A football club has been formed at Mangatainoka. It includes several old pluyeis. On February Ist, England and Ireland met at Leeds in the presence of 25,000 spectators, the Irishmen winning by two goals to a goal from the tield. With reference to the football disease called " scruuipox," which is being investigated at" Home, the lirst symptom is a slight itching; this is followodby thefomiatioiof a vesicle usually on the face, tilled with a straw-coloured lluid, which becomes pernlent, The vesicle eventually bursts and forms a brown scab which spreads over tho face sometimes to the bands and often to tho scalp. Tho glands of the neck are swollen and there is a tendency to tho formation of boils. A Dr Galloway who examined it regards it an impetigo, dependent on bacfetia which are conveyed from ono person to another, not only by direct and violent contact but by the putting on of jerseys which bad remained unwashed for nny length of time. It is extremely contagious,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5293, 30 March 1896, Page 2
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