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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 66, 19 March 1868, Page 2

• The public will learn with regret ' (says a Melbourne paper^ 'of the sudden death but after a long illness, of MiGeorge Marshall, the weli-knowu cricketer. Some years ago, while engaged in a match on the Melbourne Club's grouud, he sustained a sunstrcke, which was not thought at the time to be serious. Since then, however, his health has continued to decline, aud for a long time past he has been able to take only ihe smallest amount of interest in his favorite game, or in matters of business. Latterly the progress of his disease had become painfully marked. 'George,' as he was familiarly called by every cricketer, was a native of Nottingham, aud born in 1829. He was much respected, both within and without the cricketing circle. A very painful circumstance in connection with the cyclone which recently brought so much disaster and destruction upon Calcutta and its neighborhood is that -4fe«*Cftlamky- ocsuisred at tlie time wl_en4he-wee ~crop was in the ear, aud when the' whole province, as we are informed by the Calcutta Englishman, was wasted by famine and pinched by high prices, and looked forward to an abundant harvest. The cyclone, however, was so violent that the rice crop was ruined — the ears were swept off, the stalks were broken. In the ten miles south of the Hopghly at least oue-half of the rice crop was destroyed. AU the crops recently sown within the track blasted by the whirlwind have been destroyed. The e»uditioa of the district of Jessdre is even ' more deplorable. Not five per cent, of the well built brick houses in the district have withstood the blast.