TEAM FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18899, 14 January 1927, Page 9

TEAM FOR NEW ZEALAND.

MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB'S PROPOSAL. (IST CABLE— r-RES3 ASSOCIATION—COPTMOHT.) (AVSTRALtA!* ASD K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 14th, Midnight.) MELBOURNE, January 13. The executive of the Victorian Cricket Association considered the application of the Melbourne Cricket Club for permission to Betid a team to New Zealand at the end of the month. The executive expressed approval of ,the trip being made, but that 'the matter came under the jurisdiction of the Board Of Control, and arrangements for the tour are held up pending the Board's sanction being obtained. ■i . . . . .n

tober the mystery ship, Hermer, with her thirty-five seaplanes, has been in Chinese waters. One bomb from each 'plane would bo more than sufficient to put an end to any rising, and to Strike a Wholesome terror into the Chinese heart. It does not take much to scare them, A mob of 200 recently looted a British shop, attd took possession, but two bluejackets rowing ashore in a dinghy were sighted, and that was the last seen of the hostile mob. It sUbseauently transpired that tho representatives of. his Majesty's Naw were but on a pleasure trip, but that shows the spirit of the rabble with which we have to deal.''

PATIENCE URGED

SIR JAMES ALLEN'S PLEA. [THE PRESS Special Service.J BUNEDIN, January 13. Urging patience and endurance of the scoffing and injustice heaped on Britain's shoulders, Sir James Allen, who is an authority on international and Empire problems, touched on tho China simmerings, when responding to the toast of "The Empire" at the jubilee celebrations of the Tuapeka County Council at Lawrence last night. The differences were very largely misunderstandings among ourselves and with foreign nations with whom we were in relationship, eaid Sir James. The first misunderstandings might be dissipated by solidity within the Empire and constant round-table conferences between representatives of the Mother Country and the Dominions. Until China's interna! difficulties were settled. Great Britain could do nothing more than exercise profound patience, and should not take any action that might and would be wrongly interpreted by those who wished to do Great Britain harm. In time China would tattle the difficulty aiid the endurance of the scoffing and injustice heaped on Britain would be rewarded