Extracts from "Truth."

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 261, 16 February 1889, Page 2

Extracts from "Truth."

Certainly the amenities of ths noble game of football are remarkable. Hardly a week passes without the announcement that some player has been killed, maimed tor life, or seriously injured, and the sporting papars are full of letters from members of various club) accusing their rivals of rough play, brutality, and so forth. Even the umpires ara by no means safe, for I observe that at Stavely v. Notts County, Mr Shelton, one of the umpires, who had presumably given a decision contrary to local prejudice, was mobbed, pelted with mud, and severely kicked, while the Captain of the Notts County team was also maltreated. It seems remarkable that white scenes of this sort are practically unknown to the cricket field, the various Football Unions and Associations should be powerless to put a stop to such disgraceful rufflianism.

At Edinburgh last week, a medical student was fined £5 and costs, and bound over to keep the peace, for violently assaulting a woman by throwing her out of bis window into a backyard, fihe was so much injured that it was necessary to remove her to the infirmary. The ruffian must have been very near committing murder, and it is altogether monstrous that he should have been quietly dismissed on payment of a small fine. If the defendant had been a laborer or mechanic, instead of a quasi-gentleman, he would have been sent to prison for six months, Another disgraceful massacre of Arabs has taken place at Suakim, Tbe news that above 400 of these African Liberals, rightly struggling to secure the independence of their country, had been killed, was received by tbe Tories in the House of Commons with cheers, but whether these cheers will be echoed by their constituents I greatly doubt. Nothing did Mr Gladstone's Ministry more harm than his three expeditions to Suakim. The Tories then professed their horror on account of them 1 Now in spite of experience, they have indulged in yet another massaore. We are asked to believe that the tribes in the neighborhood of Suakim are favorable to us, but that the Dervishes of ths interior are hostile. Ido not clearly understand what is ment by * the Dervishes.’ I have heard of individuals called by this appellation, but A never of any army of Dervishes. Uufortu- . uately, however, for the Dervish theory, a ■ considerable number of tbe local tribes are am jngst the killed. The fact is that the inhabitants of the Soudan naturally object to Egypt holding the Soudanese town of Suakim and whether it suits us to call our opponent* Dervishes, or Arabs, or tribes, they are one and all inhabitants of the Soudan, who have my warmest sympathy in their efforts to b* masters in their own country.