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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 44, 20 February 1877, Page 4

The London Echo says:— "We breathe again, England bowled out by the eleven of Sydney and two wickets to go down, went to Newcastle, N.S.W. and there beat the Newcastle Eleven. The account is balanced, so far, in an International, or, to coin a word, inter-Imperial-Colonial sense. It is clear tbat we shall have to have the Sydney Eleven over here.j ust to let them see what can be done at Lord's aud on the Oval ground, consecrated by the mighty deeds of Grundy and Wootten, and of the Shaws with the ball, of Tom Lockyer at the wicket, and of the Graces, the Walkers, and the great batsman whose scores have run up to three figures. There is always a moral in these little events and defeat is a more ussful teacher than success. Who is the proper authority to select and organise an Eleven of All England to go to the Antipodes or the New World, holding the honour of the English name, in cricket, in their hands ? How many elevens should we have at one time ? When are we to have a confederotion of the cricket counties, whose autonomous rights of self-govern-ment are now getting a little i troublesome?"

The Olago Daily Times, speaking of the Otago Railways, says : — From poiut to point our railways are slowly but surely progressing towards completion. Now one addition, and now another, is made to the lines open for traffic, and the time tables are beginning to siake a respectable appearance when all brought into one view. The number of stations already opened according to the latest tables, totalled 180 for the Middle Island, and 53 for Norlh Island. An addition is about to be made by the opening of the Lawrence line as far as Havelock, and the Wintoc-Kiagston line from the Eibow to Lowther. A Biill more important link, that between Omnru and 'iiraaru, is to be opened on Ist February, which will connect together in one unbroken chain some 200 miles of main line, and more that a hundred miles of branches between Am her ley and Moeraki. Offenbach has written an odder opera entitled "The Milk Can."— Exchange, What kine of opera. is that, and whey? Full oi blood-curdling scenes, no'doubt -"Noristown Herald. ■ What kind of opera is it? Maybe it's an opera bceuf. Look cow easy it is to make these infamous puns. — Philadelphia Bulletin. The Bulletin <>x the efforts of its predecessors sky high. — But lington IFatok-