The Globe. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1875.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 327, 30 June 1875, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1875.

The promoters of the visit of the Australian cricketers to this colony are likely to find numerous obstacles in the way of a successful accomplishment of their purpose. A telegram has already been published which gave us an intimation that the Auckland cricketers had passed a resolution to the effect that it was desirable that the intercolonial match should take place at Auckland. To-day we publish a telegram from our Auckland correspondent, in which he gives the various reasons which the Northern cricketers advance for their opinion. We have no hesitation in saying that the cricketers of the two Southern provinces will not be convinced ! by these reasons, and that they will most decidedly object to the scene of the intercolonial match being fixed in this off hand manner by the representatives of any one province. If for no other reason, the want of a really good ground on which to play, ought to be an insuperable difficulty in the way of the match taking place as our Northern friends propose. The idea that because the travelling team from Auckland succeeded in winning a series of matches on the different Southern grounds, these victories should entitle the Auckland cricketers to dictate as to what part of the colony the intercolonial match shall take place at is simply absurd. If the Aucklanders choose to assume the title of champions of New Zealand because they won the series of matches alluded to some time ago, no one will feel inclined to make any fuss about it. The title may please them, and it will not hurt anybody else. They may retain the title an indefinite time, because, as we have had occasion to point out before, the Southern cricketers cannot get up to the North to play a match with the Auckland team. This has been explained again and again, and the fact is well known to every cricketer in Auckland.

It appears to us that it is an act of impertinence on the part of the cricketers of any one province in New Zealand to attempt to lay down the law concerning the most important of the series of matches that we hope to see played next season. The preliminaries, such as the number of the team chosen to play the visitors, the ground on which the match is to be played, and finally the selection of the New Zealand team should we think be left to representatives selected from each of the subscribing provinces. No province, of course, will interfere with the arrangements made by any other province as to the match to be played on the latter’s ground, and the question of the great match of the series must not be left to the cricketers of any particular part, or it will lose its intercolonial character, and be merely the means by which a second match will be played on the ground of the province from which these cricketers come. Ever since the Aucklanders made their successful tour they have been crying out for a visit from a Southern team, though they were well aware that as far as Canterbury was concerned such a visit was impossible. A certain section of the press, too, in the Northern town, has continually thrown mud at the cricketers of this province. It was hoped by many that the visit of the Australian team would be the means of reviving a better feeling between the cricketers of the North and South, but we are afraid that this will not be the case if the Auckland representatives attempt to lay down the law for the cricketers of this Island.