CRICKET ASSOCIATION.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2117, 6 December 1880, Page 3

CRICKET ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the general committee of the Cricket Association was held at the City Hotel on Saturday evening. Mr E. O. -J. Stevens'in the chair.

A letter was read from Mr Hallifas accepting the terms offered by the Association to the Australian cricketers. A letter was then read from Mr John Conway, of Sydney, stating that a team of English professionals was being formed to play matches in the Australian Colonies and New Zealand during the years of 1881 and 1882, and asking .what assistance oould be: given in the event of their deciding to play a; three days' matoh in Christohuroh. The writer pointed out that the formation of the team would depend entirely upon the amount' of support they were likely to receive, and that, should all go well, the strongest eembi- i nation of professional players that over left England would start for the United States in the autumn of 1881, play four or five matches there, and thenjlecve San Franoisoo by the October moil, landing at Auckland in November, and playing in that city the first JXen Zealand match 5 thence they would go to Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, perhaps taking Oamaru and Timaru en rovU^ Some discussion ensued in reference to this letter, with particular regard to the question of ways and means. Mr Ollivier proposed that an offer of £2OO for the three .days' match be made to the .oricketers.

An objection to this was taken, on the ground that the Association was not justified, under present circumstances, in tiling the responsibility of such an oS r. The committee generally adopted this view of the case ultimately, and reeolved :—"That the secretary be instructed to write to Mr ■Conway, stating that the Association is ziot in a position to guarantee any terms at present, but would be glad to know what would be considered a fair sum, to include expenses, for a three days' match." A question arose in reference to the increased rate of capitation, the secretary of the Chrisichurch Club having written to state that the charge made by the association was seriously affecting the financial position of the club, whose membership had been considerably redueed in consequence thereof. The meeting resolved that the association could not reduce the rate of capitation, and the secretary was instructed to communicate with tha Ohristohuroh Glob to that effect j This was all the busmen of importance, jind the meeting adjourned.