Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 21 August 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

1 "w ™ A gentle.van prominently connected \niih cr>cket in New South Wales has received a letter r v >m SpoffoTth, in which tUo latter gives the opinion ihat the Australians will be beaten in all their test in acnes. The deinoa bowler gives as i'n> reason that the new blood in the Australian Eleven is not so good as' was anticipated. So far the prophecy of Mr >5 mfforth has turned out to be true . The Fi«l<l, criticising the. Eleven, refers to tin? Mbscene of the great batsmen, Murdoch, Ma^sie, Bannermtin, M"cT>onnell and Horaa,.and says Unit wit: o it them the team sterns comparatively weak in bati ••!•$. ; rt nlso pay* a tribute to Murdoch's wonderful capacity as captain : — " He quickly took in the peculnrities of our English bowlers, and perceived the weak quints in .pur batsmen, and could direct the defence or the attack of his side accordingly." •' Dilly dilly ducks, come and be killed." Tlji* was the kind invitation offered to the Government by the Opposition when urging the, Premier to push the Representation Bill through at all costs. We pnw through the plot from the beginning, and we are glad the Premier was not do]ud<>d or bounced into placing himself unreservedly in the power and at the mercy of Major Atkinson and his partyIt may , be aggravating and annoying to these gentlemen that their kind designs were frustrated, but the country has reason : to Tejoice that it is so. As we have said before it is perfectly evident that neither Major Atkinson nor his supporters cared one iota for the Represent tation Bill per se. They simply regarded it as a possible means of .advancing their political ends and regaining power. They are terribly, chagrined at having failod. JSinei-Uoßlacrimce. — Post.