THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 November 1901, Page 2

THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS.

It will be remembered that when the last English team of cricketers was in Australia keen interest was taken in the tour, the scores being carefully cabled every day during the matches. The team that announced play on Saturday at Adelaide have in their initial innings given much evidence of brilliancy. Of course, great allowance must be made for the visitors, who are just off a long sea voyage. Doubts were expressed at Home as to the ability of the team to cope with the “ Flower of Australian Cricket,” but they were regarded as a great batting team, the Times’ cricketing expert stating that the team possesses M'Laren, Garnett, Jones, Jessop, Braund, Quaife, Hayward, Lilley, Gunn, Tyldesley—a fine, capable lot of run-getters. In fielding, MacLaren, Garnett, Jessop, Tyldesley, Lilley, Jones, Braund, not to mention Quaife, will more than upho’d the reputation of English “out” cricket. In bowling MacLaren has at his command Blythe, Gunn, Braund, Jessop, Quaife, and possibly another not yet chosen. “ Yet I cannot help thinking that the attack, especially on Australian wickets, will be found very weak. This is undoubtedly the weakest point of the team, and we may reasonably expect to see the Australians pile up enormous scores against them in all their eleven-a-side matches. Judging from the experience I gained during my one and only visit to the colonies, I have a suspicion that the batting of the team, though sufficiently powerful for the purposes of English cricket, is hardly sound and safe enough for the long Australian games. Patience is the virtue that pays best in batting in Australia. Fine players as Garnett, Jones, Jessop, and Tyldesley are, it cannot be said that their patience is inexhaustible. Personally, I look forward to great things from Hayward, Quaife, and MacLaren. Lilly will be a success, a great success, both in wicket-keeping and batting, given good health.” English cricketers possess some extraordinary ideas. They declare that the patience and dogged determination —qualiti es essentially English —not cricket; and affirm that it is by reason of such tactics that Australia wins. In the initial innings the colonials adopted the free hitting tactics, the Englishmen’s patience and doggedness. It will be interesting to note how English authorities will look on the play under such circumstances.

At the Magistrate’s Court this forenoon before B. 8. Hawkins, Eaq. S.M., T. Farrell and D. Hysan charged with throwing stones at a Chinaman, were convicted and fined 10/- and costs.

The Sonoma with the inward ‘Frisco mail arrived at Auckland this forenoon. The Greymouth portion should arrive about Friday by the Wainui.

A rehearsal in connection with the Conversazione will be held in the Opera House this evening. Soloists at 7 o’clock Orchestra 8 o’clock, Advt,

Anyone desiring a first class tenant for a cottage property should communicate at once with Messrs H. C. Harley and Co, whose advertisement appears in this issue.

Members of the Dorothy Opera Coy. are requested to be present at Mrs Easson’s to-morrow afternoon at 4.30 p m. with their costumes, when a photo of tbe group will be taken by Mr James Ring. Blenheim with 68 degrees in the shade was the warmest place in tbe colony. The temperature of Westport was 58, Greymouth 57, and Bealey 54. The tides on the Coast are poor with smooth seas. The annual conversazione in connection with St. John’s Presbyterian Church will be held in the Opera House tomorrow evening, and promises to be equally as successful as former gatherings. The ladies of the congregation arc working hard to eclipse all previous efforts, and a first rate musical programme is issued. Tickets have as usual been sold in all directions, and a real good house is anticipated. Re the paragraph from our Brunner correspondent in our issue of yesterday, we are informed that the evening train to Brunner started at the time fixed upon by those in charge of the Opera Company. Had a later train been suggested the railway traffic manager would, we are assured, have gladly acceded to the request. Moreover, had the matter been mentioned to the traffic manager any time on Saturday that the Opera would likely not finish in time to allow those attending to catch the train leaving at 10.30, he doubtless would have postponed the departure of the train for 15 minutes or so rather than any person should be disappointed.

The s. s. Kilburn will take from Oamaru between 10,000 and 14,000 801 b bags of oats for South Africa.

Since gold was first discovered in New Zealand the total won is valued at £58,681,273. Constable John Madden, one of New Zealand’s oldest policemen, died at Pleasant Point, Timaru, last week. The latest rumour in English politics is that Lord Salisbury will retire from the Premiership after the coronation of Edward VII. It is reported in Dunedin that a publican, after reading Bishop Nevill’s speech on publiehouse reform, sent ten guineas to tho Cathedral fund. The Hawke’s Bay na’ives predict an awful dry season this 3 car, and agriculturists throughout the district are feeling concerned at the outlook. Colonel Fox, formerly Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, will take up his residence in Napier for a time, in the hope that the genial climate will restore his health. The enquiry into the management of tho Blind Institution at Auckland has closed. The transcript of tho evidence extends to over 1100 pages of typewriting. Ninety-one thousand horses have been shipped to South Africa during the war. English bred horses cost £75 delivered in South Africa, Argentine only £25. A unique specimen of a carved portion of a prow of a war canoe, considered by Captain Hutton to be the finest piece of Maori carving of its kind in existence, has recently been secured for the Canterbury Museum, having been obtained in Auckland.

It is, says the Motueka Star, somewhat of a record to bo able to extract 100 teeth more or less firmly set in tho jaws in one day, but we understand a leading dentist, who was in Motueka a few days ago, succeeded in doing so. Evidently the natural teeth of tho rising generation have to give place to those from the laboratory of the tooth puller. The number of sheep in tho colony on 30th April of this year was 20,233,098, as compared with 19,355,195 last year. The number of owners increased from 81,357 to 81,360.

“ Sleepy Hollow,” after rejecting half a dozen loan proposals with the object of improving the city, has condescended to extend its water works at a cost of £15,000.

It is stated by tho Poverty Bay Herald that at the close of the session the Native Minister will investigate tho causes of

drunkenness amongst the Maoris in various parts of the colony. According to the Thames Star, no offer has yet been made by the Waihi Company (notwithstanding the sugges ion in the Arbitration Court’s award) to the men who were discharged after the formulation of the minors’ demands. The Receiver of Gold Revenue, Kumara, is on the war path issuing summonses for overdue rents on special claims residence sites etc, and it would be advisable for all those who are in arrears to look him up before they got saddled with further court expenses. The estate of a bankrupt at Wanganui has not only paid the creditors their claims in full, but divided among them £lO3 in interest, and afterwards left a surplus of £145. The bankrupt came into some property through the death of his mother, which realised £625. The Premier and Minister of Lands are at loggerheads (says the Wellington correspondent of the Hawke’s Bay Herald) over the appointment of the SurveyorGeneral. Mr Duncan is said to favour Mr Barron’s claims, while Mr Seddon wishes to appoint an old Wert Coaster in the perron of Mr Mueller, of Auckland. Several Ballarat clergymen have suggested the introduction of the Curfew, or “Home Call,” Bill, similar to that existing in some of the United States towns, prescribing an hour after which children may not bo in the streets without guardians. The We’lington ‘ Post” says it is currently reported in Southland that the Hon Thos. Duncan will, in the course of the next few weeks, resign his office as Minister of Lands, and be succeeded by Mr

McNah, the member for Mataura. The French military authorities are making use of an ingenious invention to protect their carrier pigeons against hawks. The apparatus consists of a very tiny whistle and screw attached to the pigeon, whose flight causes the screw to revolve and blow the whistle. The noise effectually scares away the enemy.

It has fallen to the lot of four VicePresidents of the Unitfd States to succeed to the Presidency, according to the Constitution, in consequence of the deaths of Presidents during; their terms of office. These were John Tyler, 1841-5, following the death of President William Henry Harrison ; Millard Fillimore, 1850-3, on

the death of President Zachary Taylor ; Andrew Johnson, who succeeded President Lincoln, 1865-9 ; and Chester Allan Arthur following President Garfield, 1881 5. In only two of the four cases, were the successions necessitated by as. sassinations.

The “North Otago Times” says —Mr Ayson, Inspector af Fisheries left Oamaru on Saturday for Hakateramca to make all the necessary arrangements for the reception of a lari e shipment of salmon ova coming by the next San Francisco mail boat. This shipment, wo understand, is much larger than the previous one, and in addition a shipment from Scotland is shortly expected. The shipments are expected to tax the resources of the hatchery to such an extent that it may bo necessary to send some of the ova to Lake Ohau, where accommodation will be provided I for them. I

Mr “Bart” Dowell of Hokitika, is slowly recovering from the effects of his severe accident, but is not likely to be able to get about again for a week or two.

In connection with the funeral of the late Lieut-Col. Bonar on Sunday, we learn from Major Wolfe that the parade roll showed that fully 75 per cent of the whole strength of the West Coast volunteers were present.

The London “Times” New York correspondent states that the new President is apt to consider * I and Providence” as covertible terms.

At the end of September there were 1,414,000 gross tons of merchant shipping in the course cf construction in British shipbuilding yards. This is a record. The ‘Sunday Times’ (Sydney) declares that New Zealand will not gain reoipocal tariffs with the Comraonwealh unless she adopts retaliatory measures, or threatens retaliation.

Public opinion in England strongly supports the action of the Imperial Government in commuting the sentences passed on the members of the Victorian Fifth Contingent. Speaking of President Roosevelt, a friend said: “I’m thinking that when Ted dy’s done with America it will, may be, require another Christopher Columbus to discover what is left of it.”

The latest recruit to the British Army is the outpost dog. In various continental armies the dog has been trained to do “sentry-go” for some time past, but it is only now in the British Army his value is being recognised. In the regular army of the United States one in every four is foreign born. In the navy the proportion rises to one in two among petty officers and two in five among the men. Mr W. E. Goffe, of the Native Land Purchase Department, Wanganui, reports that a very old Maori disease called “ ngere-ngere ” (.Maori leprosy) recently made its appearanoe'at Tawata, a village on the U pper Wanganui. Edward, says an old writer, was anciently written Eadward and Eadweard, and given, as it appeareth, in the recommendation of loyalty or faith-keeping, for Eadward is properly a keeper of his oath, vow, faithful promise, or covenant. It is equivalent to Edgar, both having one sense and meaning, guard and ward.

Mr Earnshaw the ex-member for Dunedin, is at present visiting the West Coasr, and has left for the district south of Boss. His mission is in connection with dredging, and it is stated that he has secured some good process for treating black sand which if it is successful will enable a lot of ground in the Southern district to be worked. A rather remarkable oocurrencer was reported at Gisborne from the Motu bush lately. Five bushmen were working at one contract. On one eventful Saturday the first by a slip of the axe cut his leg, the second his kneecap, the third was injured by a falling tree, the fourth had a bad fall from where he was working, and to complete the quintette the fifth man cut bis foot, and was laid up for some weeks.

The last self-denial collection in New Zealand in connection with the Salvation Army totalled £7872, made up as follows: --Christchurch £IO7O, Auckland £1629, Dunedin £IB7B, Wellington £2407, Gre.y« mouth £423, Nelson £376, Kotorua £75 10s. The amounts collected in the other places were Victoria £4119, New South Wales £4200, South Australia £2472, Queensland £2OBO, Tasmania£6so, Western Australia £1836, Java £200; total £24,350. There were six bankruptcies in the colony last week—a butcher at Wellington, a farmer at Temuka, a picture-fra:her at Dunedin, a storekeeper at Dargavillo, and a tailor at Napier. An old settler, Thomas Thompson, died at Prebbleton (Canterbury) on Saturday, at the age of ninety-one. to the colony in 1851. Ho leaves A family of four children, thirty-five grandchildren, and ninety-five great-granchildren. It is stated by a London shipping paper that the contract price of the Union Ship Company’s new steamer for the Intercolonial trade is £125,000. It should be remembered, however, that these prices are moat jealously kept secret by both shipowners, and shipbuilders. A curious find is reported from one of the Chincha Islands off the coast of Peru. In a bed of guano an old ships compass was lately dug up, which, when cleaned, was found to be in working order. The case of the instruments is of brass, and it bears the engraved inscripiion: “Jno Warren, Cheposide, City of London, Maker, 1699.’’ The compass has been . sent to a museum in Lima.

The race from Arahura River which the Humph ey’s Consolidated Company has bad under construction for tome time, has just been completed, and water turned on for the first lime on Friday last, sluicing is now being carried out with between 20 and 30 heads of water, three shifts being employed. The race reflects the greatest credit on the Company’s Engineer, Mr Spencer, who has successfully carried through the big undertaking. Apropos of the unveiling of the hatchments to soldiers who fell in the Maori war, at New Plymouth this week, it is stated that the first V. C. won by any of the regiments in New Zealand fell to Colour-Sergeant John Lucas, 40th Eegiment, on the 18th March, 1801, while acting as sergeant of a party of the 40ih near No 7 redoubt. The rebels poured in a heavy and well directed fire, and Lieutenant Rees and several of the men were wounded. Lucas, under a heavy fire, ran to this officer’s assistance, and sent one man with him to the rear. He then took charge of the arms belonging to the killed and wounded, and maintained bis position till the arrival of support.

Mr Webley, senr., pianoforte and organ tuner, etc., will be in Greymouth on or about the 14th inst. Orders may be left at the Gilmer Hotel — Advt. Mr J. Gofton, the Dresden Piano Company’s tuner and representative, is now m Greymouth. Orders left with Messrs Easson and Co., the local agdnt, will be promptly attended to.— Advt.

Alarm Clocks, Ansoaia Clock Company’s manufacture. Guaranteed thoroughly reliable timepieces. Sale price 5s each. Everything correspondingly cheap a,t Horace W. Lloyd's Jewellery Establishment on Mawhera Quay. - Advt. To those who are about to furnish—We have just landed an exceptionally fine lot of floorcloths, linoleums and carpets from 18 inches to 4 yards wide. The patterns of these have been specially selected, and being imported direct from the manufacturer wo can guarantee the prices to be absolutely the lowest,—"W. McKay and Son.— Advt.

For ladies ties, fichus, collarettes, bolts ahd every description of ladies nock and body decoration, no drapery warehouse in Westland con approach the infinite variety and chaste styles of T. W. Tymons and Coy’s latest importations. In the firms underskirt division, a tireless endeavour is made to obtain the very latest style of garments, hence the department has secured the compl to confidence and popularity of the ladies of Westland. T. W. Tymons and. Co’s “huge purchases” and “colossal sales” are household words. In no other way of business could the firm afford to sell their goods at such low prices. The magnitude of their trade is the cause, secret, and corollary pf their success.— Advt,

Some of the highest living medical authorities attribute the great growth of physical and mental disease which has characterised the last few decades, to the universality of adulturation. They affirm that the taking into the aystem continually by human beings as food, substances which are chemically foreign and not only incapable of sustaining healthy life, but constitute a perpetual danger to it, is largely responsible for the new and complex diseases that baffle their curative skill. Therefore be wise in time, cat only

K Jam and avoid these dangers. Absolute purity guaranteed— Advt. V,