TIMES PAST
Sat 8th May 1858 CRICKET
The Wokingham Club, mustered for the first time this season, , on Wednesday last, on the Wellington Cricket-ground, and we were pleased to find so large a number present. An excellent game was played between two elevens of the club, and some very good play was shown, especially in the batting, which was acknowledged to be first-rate, and superior to the bowling. We hear that a match with the Henley Club is on the tapis; but let who will oppose the Wellington club this season, they will find they have undertaken no slight work.
In the evening there was a goodly muster (about 45) to partake of an excellent dinner at the Bush Inn, the party being ably presided over by Edward Weight, Esq., the president of the club. After paying due honour to the usual patriotic toasts Mr. Weight rose, and after paying a most justly deserved compliment to Mr. William Goodchild on behalf of the members of the club, begged to present him with a very handsome silver pint cup of elegant workmanship, as a token that the club heartily esteemed the favour of enjoying the gratuitous use of Mr. Goodchild’s meadow, known as the Wellington-cricket ground, as well as the kind assistance invariably shown by Mr. Goodchild to the club. The cup bears an inscription, engraven in the centre to the same effect. Mr. Goodchild in feeling and suitable language assured the company how highly he prized their present and the kind feeling shown to him. The cup was at once brought into service and rapidly passed round filled with wine, each of the company heartily drinking to the health of Mr. Goodchild. Several excellent songs were sung, and a most pleasant evening was spent, thus inaugurating the cricketing campaign in a manner that will long be remembered with satisfaction by all who were present.
Sat 22nd May THE HIGH STEWARD
We have to announce that Lord Braybrooke, who has been elected High Steward, Wokingham, in the room of his late lamented father, will attend on Wednesday next, to take the oaths of office. His lordship is expected to arrive at the railway station soon after twelve o’clock when he will be met by the Aldermen, recorder, and corporation, who will conduct his lordship to the Town-hall, where the oaths will be administered. We understand that the Alderman (James Twycross, Esq.) will afterwards entertain his lordship and his colleagues in the corporation at a luncheon, at his private residence.