The South Canterbury Caledonian Society deserve all the success they have had, and we heartily congratulate them upon the results of their late sports meeting, which even casual ob servation shows to have been excellent. The Society has always been foremost in the promotion of genuine popular sports, and it has annually provided the public with an inexpensive and most diverting entertainment of a varied character. The yearly increas ing popularity of these meetings has encouraged the Society to institute liberal prize lists end numerous events, by which competitors and spectators have been attracted from all quarters ; and finally the Society has acquired for itself a “ local habitation,” as well as a name and fame. The choice of ground is another instance of sagacity and enterprise, for a more suitable one could not have been pitched upon. Those who were present at the meeting just now closed must have felt as they stood upon the crowded plateau at a considerable elevation above the sea of which they had a full and cheering view, that the choice of ground was in the highest degree a good- choice. Yesterday when the beat was tempered by a gentle breeze from the ocean the advantages of the situation were strikingly manifest. It is not only in this general way that the Society has distinguished itself and de served well of the community,however ; it has also shown how a long, two-day’s programme of sports may be carried out without a bitch and without weary ing anybody. This is the result of perfect organisation and management, and it teaches a very valuable lesson to a good many enterprises both of pastime and business. Everybody holding office in the Society is a zealous worker. There are no cliques to eye one another with jealousy, no indivi dual hesitates to act because somebody else whom he does not deem good enough to be associated with, is at work for the cause, “ Shoulder to shoulder ” is with their Society no idle traditional motto, but the expression of a genuine sentiment, thoroughly re duced to practice. At yesterday’s meeting everybody, from the President down to the bellman, worked with heartiness. What result could such co-operation have, but unqualified suc cess 7

There is still another reason why the Society is worthy of honor and sup port. 