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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 417, 5 April 1877, Page 3

The value of the wool clipped this year in Australia it stated to be £6,250,000. The ' Australasian' notices the cricket matches played by the English Eleven at Auckland and Wellington, and says " When it was contemplated, some time ago, to send an Australian Eleven to Maori Land to make a 'tour of the provinces, the New Zealand cricketers, in speaking of the contemplated meeting of Australian wieldera of the willow, ridiculed the idea of playing the visitors save on level terms, and a comparison was at once instituted between Australian and New Zealand cricketers. The result of the matches, so far, goes to prove that ,both New South Wales and Victoria are a long way in advance of their southern friends, and that a really good Australian Eleven would p'ny and defeat any fifteen the respective provinces could produce." W hat was the first financial account on record ?—When Pharoah received a check at the bank of the lied fcsea, crosted by Moses & Co;