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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 44, 20 February 1872, Page 2

CRICKET.

A most interesting match in which some really good play was exhibited on both sides, took place at Wakefield yesterday, between the Wanganui and Wakefield clubs. We regret that we are unable to furnish a detailed account of the game, but we give the score, from which it will be seen that our visitors were victorious by 23 runs : — Wanganui.

Wakefield.

Sanitary Condition of Wellington. — The Independent gives tha following sketch : — The city of Wellington is probably the worse drained place in New Zealand, and no town in the Colooy has got anything like an efficient system of drainage. Some little improvemement has been made during the last year or so, but the horrible stenches which salute one's olfactory organs in various parts of the city, afford indisputable evidence of the existence of decomposing aud excretatory matter being allowed to pollute the atmosphere and breed disease.

The Sydney Morning Herald gives the following extract from a letter dated 25th December, 1871, and sent by a gentleman at oue of the South Sea Islands to a friend in Sydney : — " ' Doba ' — that island has a bad name. They will chase a vessel, if it is cairn, and fight her. In fact, all the islands are getting bad, for the treatment inflicted by labor vessels is truly frightful. One man told me himself that he had landed and tried to burn down a village ; it would not burn (it was after rain), so be went on board, got some kerosine, then burnt and plundered it ! He brought here some kind of idol with human heads upon it. Another captain of a vessel told me he also assisted to burn the village. Every ship can tell tales of braggart villany, which, if true, ought to hang some one. Canoes are run down and the people taken from them. A cutter of 15 or 18 tons, now here with bulwarks only ten inches high, has forty-two natives on board, about thirty-five of them for sale — children, boys and girls, six years, eight and nine years old, tip to grown men and women ! It is horrible, and should be stopped. I hope a man-of-war will soon be here to see about it."

English Telegrams. -^ Our sanguine expectations of being in receipt of weekly. English .telegrams are not likely to be realised so rapidly as we anticipated.. Floods have washed away a considerable portion of the telegraph already completed, and

the funds are beginning to fail. The Melbourne Daily, Telegraph, in an article upon the subject, say's:* — The overland telegraph has already'met .with an accident. The floods have swept away a considerable portion of it, and the worst of it is, the same catastrophe may occur at any moment. Instead of having the wires in working order in March, the jjouth Australian Government will have \omething to do to complete their contracts by mid* winter, and in the meantime they are debating already how they can best go to the money market to borrow money to meet the obligations they have already incurred to tbe English company, and which increase in an accelerated ratio the longer their discharge is delayed. Altogether it is not satisfactory news to sent home to the English shareholders, and it will not raise Australian enterprise in the eyes of European capitalists. Nothing is clearer than that the matter should not have been left to South Australia alone to deal with, and each catastrophe, and each interruption in its progress is a tacit reflection on the want of sagacity on the part of our neighbors in holding aloof from the design.

Diamond Skugglin g — Heavy Seizure. — The New York Tribune says : — Colonel Whitely, of the Secret Service Bureau, has been expecting tor six weeks past, the arrival at this port of certain jewellery and diamond smugglers, whom he particularly desired to arrest. He has long known that some persons of high standing in this city were engaged in the business, and were employing agents to make regular trips across the Atlantic for smuggling purposes. It is also well known that these agents had found so little difficulty in bringing the smuggled goods ashore and disposing of them, that they had become reckless. These facts were obtained from one of Whitley's agents in New Jersey, who had succeeded in getting the confidence of some of the steamship's employees, cognisant of the smuggling, on the German steamers that land there. On Thanksgiving Day the steamer Westphalia, of the Bremen line, arrived at Hoboken, and the detective who was attending to the matter soon became convinced that several of the passengers had contraband jewellery in their possession. One man in particular, pointed out to him by his informants, he followed to an hotel, and "shadowed" until yesterday morning, in order to trace his connection with other smugglers. Just as the culprit was giving up his room in the hotel, the detective touched him on the shoulder and said, " I am a Secret Service Officer, and I arrest you on a charge of smuggling." The man — whose name is suppressed until his confederates shall have been seized— -gave himself up at once, and delivered to the officers about 10,000 dol. worth of goods. Colonel Whitley expects to seize twice as much more within two or three days, and to capture the rest of the gang.

Musical. — A Russian Prince, who is a fanatic admirer of an instrument which has fallen into great disfavor of late years — the guitar — has summoned all the guitarists of Europe to a public trial of their skill at Brussels, and has promised a gold medal to the best player, and a silver one to the second best.

A family has been poisoned at Ogden by eating highly colored cheese. -

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Ist innings. 2nd innings. Drew, c Powell 0 c Baigent ... 14 Jones, c Price 14 c Baigent ... 0 Daniell, c Smith 17 b Sellon 0 Jacob, bO. Knapp 0 b Sellon 13 Fleetwood, c Price 6 b Knapp 3 Panvers, b Tunnicliff '0 cßaigent 0 Carlyon, b Sellon 8 b Knapp 0 Muttit, bC. Knapp 7 c Knapp 4 Notman, bC. Knapp 3 runout 5 Watt, run out 4 b Knapp 0 Peake, not out 3 b Delaney ... 0 Byes, &c 14 8 Totals 96 47 Grand Total, 143.

Ist inning?. 2nd innings. Boy es, b Daniell 3 c Notman ... 12 H Knapp, b Jacob 2 b Jacob 0 Baigent, b Jacob 2 b Jacob 10 C. Knapp, b Daniell 8 c Notman ... 0 Sellon, b Daniell 24 c Drew 1 Smith, b Daniell 1 b Jacob 0 Tunnicliff, 1. b. w 0 b Daniell 1 Delaney, c Drew 0 c Notman ... 5 Towell, b Jacob I l.b.vr. 0 K. Knapp, not out 1 c Muttit 3 Price, b Jacob 0 not out 0. Byes, &c 24 22 Totals 66 54 Grand Total, 120.