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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 197, 21 October 1864, Page 3

Cricket. The following alteration of cricketing law will be interesting to many of our readers:—An alteration in the 10th rule, information of which was received by the last mail, must be regarded as important to bowlers. It will be recollected that, according to rule 10, “ The ball must be bowled ; if thrown or jerked, or if the bowler in the actual delivery of the ball, or in the action immediately preceding the delivery of the ball, raise his hand or arm above his shoulder, the umpire shall call, ‘No ball.’ ” At a meeting of the Marylebone Club, held in the tennis-court attached to Lord’s Ground, in Juno last, the subject of high delivery was taken into consideration, the matter having for some time previously received much attention. The Earl of Dudley, president of the club, was in the chair. It appears that after a vigorous discussion, extending over an hour and a half, a proposition by Mr. Marsham excluding from Rule 10 all restriction as to high delivery, was agreed to by a majority of 27 to 21, in preference to a motion by Mr. Fitzgerald for retaining the rule in its existing form. Rule 10 will now be simply as follows “ The ball shall be bowled ; if thrown or jerked the umpire shall call ‘no ball.’ ” This relaxation of the law can scarcely have the effect of giving any great advantage to bowlers ; but whilst many," freed from their previous fears of being no-balled, may «o far prove more effective, the umpire will be relieved of a point that was often embarrassing, and sometimes productive of dissensious out of character with the game.

Warning to Advertisers.—Among our police intelligence will be found a case in which the agent of the Havelock Mail claimed the full price for an advertisement which had been sent to that paper, without the intended number of insertions being specified upon it. Although the defendant and his wife swore that, verbally, only two or three insertions had been ordered, the Magistrate gave a verdict for £2 10s., that is, full price for the first insertion, and half-price for twenty-three subsequent ones.— Examiner, Oct. 6. Inventions to be Exhibited at Dunedin. We are told by the Southern papers that a novel invention, from Invercargill, will be placed in the New Zealand Exhibition at Dunedin. It is a model of a fire extinguishing machine, and alarum to prevent house-breaking, invented by Mr. Dixon of Invercargill. The virtues of the machine are said to be of a somewhat wonderful character. For example, on the attempt at house-breaking being made, the machine is so constructed that it would show the word “thieves” illuminated, and also perform the feat of pointing in the direction the foiled robbers had decamped!