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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 329, 25 July 1889, Page 3

Football News,—Southern Tasmania'played South Melbourne at Hobart on the Saturday before last. As the central umpire was leaving the ground, one of the Melbourne visitors, without any provocation, (truck him four times in the face in the most cowardly manner. And, again, at Williamstown on the same Saturday, when Essendon met and defeated the local team, the umpire, H. Wilson, had to be escorted by the water .police to the railway station. He was kicked on the shins and struck on the bead with a stone by the Williamstown supporters. A Sydney paper adds:—Moral 1 It is better to be a Sydney policeman, even unarmed, than a football umpire under the Victorian rules.

They have a public-spirited man in War's ggnui, who, when he found certain river improvements would not be undertaken in the ordinary eouree, volunteered to get it done himself on the principle that he should only be paid if he succeeded. But the hopes seem to have been shattered', as the following paragraph from a Wanganui paper will show :—Mr Thatcher informs us that the contractor had definitely decided to abandon the work at the Heads, as the scheme could not be possibly carried out without more money and a great deal, of patience. -Mr Thatcher also informs us that he has still perfect confidence in the success of the scheme it he was prepared to incur more expense, but as he h.s already lost some £6OO, he does not feel justified in risking more. The difficulty has been with the increasing depth occasioned by the fresh forcing the channel to the north, and the channel over the bar being closed, all the water was forced in one direction. The contractor had begun to work from the outside inwards, and a raft was laid down, which is supposed to be still in position, but several of the piles hase been washed away. The continuous wash from the end of the stone wail scooped the sand out to nine or ten feet in depth, which caused the said piles to be washed away.