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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 53, 10 December 1886, Page 3

I- slay and resulted iu a draw on V,, i«mUv in favor uf the latt«r. The A imi uam luude 111 ui the firm . ai I only 41 for liftsc-ii wickets Hi; Tin* Auairuliaua in the i nin.’-. necuru] 225 runs, thug .•in 2 Auckland 117 to make in their [*. innm,’- l<> reach tlie single score. Y . UlsUaiuma left for Sidney in the eveinag. x T)x> following letter haa been pub- ■ ,-!.ed in i.he New Zealand Times, v.ritttn by Jos. R. Riley:—Kindly allow me rpace to refer to certain remark* on my fielding in the match Australians v. Wellington. Firstly, it i- i ertod I missed Jones before he n ele *2O. That is not true. I got a very difficult cAtoh from Jones when h, was nearly 100. Secondly, Jarvis • ever gave me a legitimate catch ; had I laid wings and flown I might have caught fit*' or six of the Australians. It may be interesting to some to learn I I mi the same two batsmen (Palmer ami Jones i scored 101 runs against ich a team as Surrey (England) befc'i* a wicket fell. There is no doubt that our fielding was had; but every mm did hi-, beat, and I think it very cowardly to throw dirty water over the •go. Lastly, some of the spectators were mean, low, and cowardly enough to say that the two chances I gave were wilfully dropped bv Palmer and Evans, i >f course some old fossils here think it impossible for men like those to miss a catch. If some of those who have had so much to say about the late match were to put their hands in their (■"i ke - .'ami support cricket and footfall, instead of talking about games t) ' v ar.- totally ignorant of, it would 1., fume tlu m more, as 1 imagine there a lot of would-be judges of both game got their experience II.C. The number >f deadheads who got into the t ivilliiui without paying was quite i in igh to show a stranger how well i-.'.'ket ii mpported here. Also the . thing with the football match New Miuth W ales v. Wellington.