CRICKET.

Evening Post, Issue 18, 28 February 1865, Page 2

CRICKET.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EVENING POST. Sik— ln justice to the Wairarapa cricket team, I beg to correct errors made in your issues of Friday and Saturday. That of Friday says that the " Victoria" club was apparently winning (or words to that effect) ; and in Saturday's it is stated the match terminated in favor of the latter (Wairarapn), winning in one innings, with four runs to spare, " thus retrieving her former loss." Wilh regard to the former, the club did not at any time have the " upper hand ;" and as to the latter you make it appear that we had won a match, instead of which both have been won by Wahw.tpft. Requesting you will give this statement publicity in your next issue, I am, &c, S. Waters, Hon. Sec. Victoria Cricket Club.

The Russian Correspondence states that a telegraphic dispatch has reached St. Petersburg announcing that the telegraphic service is now- organised as far as the frontiers of China. Tho line passes by Kasan, Jumene, Omsk, and Irkoutsk, where it divides into two branches, one to Irbitt, and the other to Chadrinsk. The total length of the line is 5438 versts. The works have all been completed in three yoais. The Siberian line is to be prolonged on the sides of China and America. An American paper states that the finger nails of the chief priest of the Chinese Josshouse at Sun Francisco are longer than his fingers, and are twisted like an auger. The Walkerton (Canada West) Herald mentions that two bears were lately taking a stroll through that place in the evening. As nothing was carried off, it is regarded as a rectnnoitering expedition, to be turned to account hereafter. Norodny Li&ty, of Prague, relates the following curious incident s— One night recently M. M— ,a magistrate, returning home through a dark and narrow street, came into violent contact with a passenger, who instantly made off with all speed. The jud^e immediately felt for his watch, and finding that it was not in hi-! pocket he ran after tho supposed robber and demanded its restitution. The man hesitated a moment, but at last handed lii>n a watch On arriving at home M. M — was astonished to see his own watch on a table. The next morning he went to the police-offiVe, related his adventure, and gave up the watch which he had so strangely obtained on this previous evening. The officer on du'y then informed the magistrate that a person had just called to complain thafc he had been robbed of his watch in the street mentioned, and the fact was at once ascertained that boh the magistrate and the complainant had mistaken each other for robbers. It is stated that more than a hundred vagrant children are every month rescued from the streets of New York and sent to the West where the farmers are glad to receive them. I'hts is done by an association, styled the Childrens' Aid Society. The whole expense does not average more than 15 dollais fjr each child.