CRICKET MATCH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 274, 1 November 1880, Page 2

CRICKET MATCH.

The cricket match Nelson Club v. the College was played in the Botanical Reserve on Saturday afternoon, when there was a very large attendance of spectators, and resulted in a draw but greatly in favour of the latter. Great pains had been taken in preparing the ground, consequently there was a very good pitch. The College were the first to bat, and, notwithstanding the capital bowling of their opponents, were not disposed of until they had run up the respectable total of 121, of which Firth, who went in first and carried his bat out, made 74, and too much praise cannot be given him for his splendid batting. Throughout his whole innings he only gave two chances, and those by no means easy ones. The remaiuisg Collegians could do nothing with the bowling, with the exception of McHardy, a little fellow not much taller than his bat, vr ho made 19 in an exceedingly pretty manner, he being particularly good in forward play. For the Nelson club, Lawry and Greenfield were the only two who got into double figures, the former carrying his bat out for a well got 21. Balmain, from whom great things were expected, injudiciously allowed himself to be stumped at the beginning of the innings.' Firth's most deceptive bowling proved too much for the others, and when the stumps were drawn the Nelson club had lost seven wickets for 41 runs. The fielding on both sides was, at times, a little loose. We regret that we cannot find room to-day for the scores.

The Congrfgationalist wants lo know why we do not have female hair cutters.— The principal reason is that the female hand divine is no apt to pull the hair out by the roots. A gentleman down East, seeing his pretty maid with his wife's bonnet on, kissed her, supposing her to be the "real one." He discovered his error through the assistance o; his wife. It is a good thing for Noah that he bad the only ark afloat in all the universe at the time of the flood. If there had been just one more ark there would have been a collision the third day out, unless things were managed better than they are now. And probably they were not, as it seemed to be considered dangerous to Bend out more than one ark at a time. The llussians preserve fresh fish in hot weather by dipping them in bees-wax, whicb forms an air tight covering. After their defeat by General Roberts, tbe Afghans were employed eight days in burying their dead, The infant colony of Fiji is about to try the experiment of a Public Works policy, maintained by borrowed capital. She is not blessed with a Juliuß Yogel, with a genius of creating wpalth by a stroke of a magician's hand (says the Auckland Slur), but borrowing comes so naturally to all young colou'es, and is withal so easy and pleasant, that she needs no tutor. Tbe proposal is to raise £120,000, to be spent ia various objects of a " remunerative character." The liabilitfe? of the whole Government are to be paid off and £85,000 to be Bpent on roads, quays drainage, water sripply, and other public works at Suva, the neW capital, An equal amount is to be appropriated for fmttrgrttion. A further sum of £3500 is to be expended to a a da the purchase of a yacht for the High Commissioner, which has aroused the ire of tbe Timts. A share in the City of Glasgow Bank has bee advertised for sale, and is offered for £3,000 i and tbe advertiser says " that upon this an unusually lafste return imy be con fidently expected, l'he process of what is pleasantly called "liquidation" has ruined so many of the shareholders, and has compelled so many others to compromise with the liquidators, that the number of solvent shareholders is reduced to something like a minus quantity. The Bhares which these survivors will holl will have a claim upon tbe bank's float assets} and the advertisement states that "it is now publicly known that the liquidators bold assets of great and admitted magnitude and value, but requiring time for their realisation." A selector in the Wimmeia district (Vie.) recently agreed to sell bis daughter. A Chinaman was the Unlucky purchaser of tbe damsel, and alleges tbftt he paid sums amounting to over £50, together with numberless presents to tbe lady herself, and new suits for her little brothers, and all the satisfaction he has had to date has been tbe possesion of a scrap of dirty paper bearing these words:— "I——, of , hereby promise to deliver mj daughter Mary to within one month of thisdat\" A monster pig, belonging to Mr Frederick Poole, of Cranbournr, is thus described in a recent issue of the Dandenong Adverliur :— ' It is t.vo years old, stands 3ft Bin high, is 7ft Bin long from the snout to the root of the tail, lft 6iu acrosß tbe back, 7ft 6in round tbe barrel , sft 3in round the jowl, cuts a bam 2ft wide, an 1 its belly f romjthe' ground is only 3in. Our travelling reporter, when at Mr Poole's farm some six months ago, reckoned the weight of this pig to be about 700lbs, and competent judges who measured it the other day state unhesitatingly that it will now turn the scale at lOOOlbs. Mr Poole has been offered £50 for tbe animal, but has refused, as he intendt exhibiting it at tbe orthcoining Internati< nil Exhibition. A correspondent writes to a Wellington paper: — The night prior to our arrival was a festive time for Otaki, the white residents celebrating the occasion of the opening of a a new acboolhouse, with a ball. Before this the soirees dantantet of Otaki Jweie mixed affairs, white skins and brown skins mingled promiscuously, and bopped and jumped and perspired freely together- But there, as elsewhere, the line had to be drawn somewhere, and as one of the white skins, a female one, by tbe way, remarked to me, " Ob, they (the brown skins) came it a little too strong ; you never could depend upon the men as partners, they would go away and leave you st any moment ; and as for tbo women — well, when in a set of quadrilles they. had a habit of fitting down nnd spitting around " And ao the committee of the latest ball decided to exclude Maoris, and did so, much to their disgust, and the affair, I was assured, was most successful.

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