THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS IN ENGLAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 175, 22 July 1878, Page 2

THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS IN ENGLAND.

(Telegram per Suez Mail.) The Australian Eleven commenced the first match in Englaud at Notts, on the 20th May. They lost the match by one innings and six runs. Their next match was at Lords, on the 27th, with the Marylebone Club. This match, which created an immense sensation, wa3 the most extraordinary event. It was seen that the Australians had shown in their contest with Notts, when quite oat of practice, and on a wicket most unfavorable to their style of playing, that they were fully justified in coming to England, and that they would do themselves no discredit as representatives of cricket at the antipodes. Still no one anticipated that they would defeat such a powerful team as that brought against them, by nine wickets. Erora first to last they took full advantage of their good fortune, and allowed no chance to slip by. Special praise was also bestowed on the excellent fielding of the Australians, which was quick, active, and really very smart in the return. The Marylebone players in their second innings cut a deplorable figure. Mr Grace was perhaps a little unlucky in the first innings, but in the second he had only two balls, neither of which did he touch, and the last took his bails. Mr Hornby alone in the first innings seemed to have an idea of how to play to the bowling of Messrs Boyle and Spoffiorth ; the rest were in and out one after the other, as if there was something too terrible in the bowling to face. In the second innings, on a good though dead wicket, nine out of ten of the Marylebone side were clean bowled, and they got altogether only nineteen runs to add to the almost equally insignificant score of 33, which they had previously obtained. Six men contributed nothing at their first effort, and seven followed suit the second time. Spofforth, whose action and change of pace seemei to puzzle the batsmen, bowled in all 49 balls for 20 runs, and ten wickets; Boyle, 89 balls for 17 runs, and nine wickets, the former getting 6 wickets for 4 runs in the first, and the latter, six wickets for three runs in the second. As to the Austraian's hatting, Midwinter showed good form in both innings, and Murdoch and Horan likewise did better than any of the English side except Hornby and Erowers. The game began at 1?, and, notwithstanding the interval for lunch, ended a little after five. At a subsequent match on the 30th May with the Yorkshire County Team of eleven, the Australians won by six wickets. They were next victorious in a great match with the Surrey Eleven at Kensington Oval, which they won by five wickets. This contest, owing to the interest excited by the extraordinary success of the Australians, brought the largest crowd to Kensington Oval ever seen on a cricket field. The victory was welcomed with overwhelming enthusiasm.

want a latter,' to/ngag'e " Rees the Rapacious," as he has Deefi somewhere most aptly styled. He relieTed his conscience of all responsibility, however, by informing theffi that if they did employ this " goodmau" tb»y '•j^ottld have to pay him." I rather thiuK iakfi would;. The assurance wouldhai'P keen iVhclly iihii^cessar^r, however, had any of ttib dusky auditory ever h'e#r'd of the faraons " little bill" rendered by the solicitor in question for his invaluable services in tn'e' Whitaker-Jones libel case. The latitude of newspapers in publishing Shatters of ptiblie interest, and the proceedings of . ptibjic bodies,- especially public Courts, is gradually being enlarged, aa the following paragraph trpiti {$, English paper shows :— '•' Au action for libel against three morning papers was lately tiled at the Queen's Bench. An application against & civil engineer named Usill having been made in the Westminster Police Court by three of his Staff, a report of the proceedings was published in the papers, and this, Mr Usill said, reflected on his character. The Lord Chief Jtistice said a report, although not verbatim, was privileged if it, was true and cor rect in substance of fact. The jury returnea verdict, for the defendants " The Rev. R. W. Haweis, a well-known popular and elbqiieht, preacher in connection with a fashionable church! in She West .of London, concluded his sermon the otfaer morning thus, says the the New Zealand Ptimative Metfiod'st : — " Let us always rerueniber, brethren, to do unto our neighbor as we would he should do unto us. Now, mobody likes to be made the whetstone for another's wit; even St. Peter, you know, could not i stand being chaffed by the High Priest's kitchen maid." At a recent meeting of the Wellington Choral Society, the President next presented Mr Garrard with a large handsome silver tray, on which was inscribed these words: "Presented to Thomas Garrard, Esq., by the performing members of the Wellington Choral Society." In making the presentation the President took occasion to dilate upon the very valuable services Mr Garrard had ever rendered the society. Referring to kleptomaniacs or good position in society, a Paris letter states that " every week we hear of arrests for petty larceny, and in many cases the ladies are ladies of family and position. lam sorry to say that a number of American ladies have been arrested here, and I remember two who required all the influence thft Mr Washburne had to get them off. They finally compromised by paying for the goods, and giving 100 dollar to the poor. Kleptomania seems to be on the increase. During the past week we have had three case 3 that were very sad. One French lady stole? an article worth 50 cents, although possessing a large fortune; and another, the wife of a rich merchant, has at least 100,000 francs a year to spend. The third case is that of a German countess, and the wife of a distinguished general. Some time ago she took apartments in the Rue Lafayette, and soon won the favor of everybody. She lived a regular life, had plenty of money, and seemed to speid her time in shopping. Every day she came in with numerous bundles. Yesterday she was detected stealing some small articles in the Magazins de Louvre, and, on searching her, other things were found upon her. She confessed that her mania for pocketing small things was so stronar that she was unable to resist it, and she offered to pay any sum not to be exposed. The proprietors say they had tried the compromise system with ladies so long and vaialy that they now had to try severity, and they felt boand to prosecute the countess as an example. The poor creature is in a pitiable condition to-day, and her appeals for mercy are heartrending. All the great shops have to employ special detectives, and men are kept watching the counters through holes in the ceiling. Every week several ladies are caught, but thus far a majority have been able to compromise with the proprietor for a large sum of money." There has been a tremendous storm at New York, which resulted in much loss of life and destruction to property.