CRICKET.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 801, 4 August 1877, Page 3

CRICKET.

Sib,— l notice by the Auckland papen that a correapoudeuce has beeu going ot r bet*"?* Mr Oonw y, of Australia; auc 1 the tircrfarypf the Auck.und Onckei Uqb with >he view of arranging • -..aicl ,'. to be usayed durii.g ih* foitiieoniin, „ Mi«im>r, Yd that a iuerti.l*. had b«,, a called of that club to take, into* co..Bidera tf tw» Ms Co*w*y'B proposals m W bringiMj

a team over. I have not yeh heard the result of that m-eting, but should they succeed m comtn? to terms -with that gentleman, 1 really think that our Wnikato people shonld be up and doing. Cricket, such as Me«sr» Bannertnan, the two Gregorys, and a few others of the Australian willow handler-, centrally display ia not often witnessed. Might, not some of our energetic • snorts ' take the matter m hand nnd try to arrange with the Australians for an extension of their visit to the Waikalo, We have got abundance of 'talent ' m the district to makefa good show against them, and I am of opinion that were the nvttter tuken m hand Hid. worked un,' satisfactory arrnnetements could b« made to induce them to pay the Waikalo a visit.— l am, &o, Low-Stop. [Waika'o clu^s will never make a phaw m any orieket field so long as they let a Reason pass like the last one, without regular weekly or bi-weekly practises. The game seems to be dying out m the district; even the bojs were less enthusiastic last summer than m previous unes. —Ed W T.]

Von Moltkb's wiie — When Von iVfol'ke returned to Holatein, after reorganising the Turkish army, he found living there with his sister — who had married Mr Bute, an Englishman — a s young girJ between fifteen and sixteen,* a daughter of Mr Bute's first marriage. The pretty little girl loved already, before peeing him, the soldier who had sent from the Orient such interesting letters to his sister. As for Von Moltke, he ha 4 until then seen m woman only a being con* stantly interfering with the methodical life of a worker. But when a man more than forty years old is loved by a bewilehing girl of sixteen, he ends by returning lior affection. From that time there wa9 but one woman m the world to him. as there was but one work. He married h week Mary But*, and when she died m 1868 the Great Ffeld Marshal could sny that liia life as a social being was almost ended ; only the suld ; er remained. The Countess was burio.l m his beautiful park m Silesia, and on the marble above her is written, " Love is the fulfilling of the law." Mary Von Moltke was very bright, very charming, very merry, and it is told is a pathetic truth 'hat since her death the field Marshal has not been seen lo laugh, The circumstances of Bismarck's marriage with his pretty consin are almost as romantic.

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