Heeaan (Dunedin) abscess of'lirer, after enteric, 'very dangerous; Private J. S. Robertson (Kolso) disloca tion -of shoulder." The following were r taken ill to-day, suffering from .malaria — Sergeant-Major L. Murphy, Invercar giil; Sergeant/ At .Webster,' Hokitika ;' Trumpeter Chessman, Wellington; Ser geant X-L. Long, Te Awamutu. In ad dition i» the above, there are several -invalids who require watching.' Sur geon-Captain Watt remains' in charge of the invalids. — W^ — i^M — — ■

FOOTBALL

.A• • ■ NOTES BY "SPEC." The senior game on Saturday last between the Pirate and Kaierau teams provided the sensation of the season, lb was generally expected that the gsjaa^would. lie ,veiy. stubbornly ,con-. tstri,iJi*it^m<>kn&«A.to{U ' the tcaaaj'aHdrhad'it ended thers all would have been well; bnt- unfortunately sook after, the commencement of the' game an element of roughness was ap parent, and although warning notes were sounded by the referee, the en t counter proved more than a "willing" one right up to the end. Well on in 'the second spell a Kaierau .player was ordered off tho ' field for striking an opponent, and a few minutes later two ot the Pirate players met with^ simi lar' fate, but the finale had yet to come, and this was provided by the Pira.te team, who walked off the field -at the instigation of their acting-cap tain, the .reason given being .that the ■referee had not acted fairly towards them." After they bad left the field 'the, refereo and the captain of the Kaierau Club' waited upon the PiratM, and asked if they - intended to go on with the gome, and receiving an an tswer in the negative, there was noth ing else to do but to award tho game to the Kaierau team. The incident was a most regrettable one from every point of view, and tho allegations of parti ality on the part of the referee were, as far as the writer of these notes could see, entirely uncalled for and unfounded. Mr Tilly, like all referees, probably made mistakes, but none of them were of such a nature as to war rant any charge of unfairness being hurled against him. The fact of his ordering a Kaierau player off the field first should be sufficient to show that he was controlling, the game in an im partial manner. 