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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 977, 25 March 1871, Page 2

We learn from a contemporary that a new sensation bars been disco/ered in cricketing circles in Otago. Two elevens of the Dunedin Club lately played a match, one eleven with bats and the other with broomhandles. The best of the joke is that the broomhandles beat the bats by 100 runs. The broomhandles made 127 runs, with 17 "extras," as the Dunedin folks call the byes, &c, and the bats only 27, with 13 "extras," —but then only seven bats went to the wickets, four being " absent." A Brisbane telegram says that information has been received from the Gulf of Carpentaria that the coxswain of a boat when out on the Roper River was taken up and swallowed by an alligator. What i,« i ermed a Contractors' Debts Bill has been passed in the Victoiaan Assembly. It is stated that woikmen have frequently lost considerable sums of money by bad contractors —men who take jobs, and then, after the first or second " draw," leave their men to look after th(-ir money as best they can. Referring to the above, the Evening Post observes that a similar measure would be useful in New Zealand; and adds —" Mr Bathgate, one of the Dunedin members, will, it is understood, introduce a Bill of the kind during the ensuing session of the Assembly."