LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1606, 19 October 1882, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Auckland, Last Night. A Joke. Souk amusement has been caused among cricketers by tho discovery that the letter written to Sydney, pioposiug a vibit of a New Zealand team to Australia, was u litten by A. M. lieale, who represents an insignificant second eleven who have been piaeti&ing in the diillshed (lining the winter, and who were easily beaten by an all-comers' team in the Domain cricket ground on Saturday. The local cricket association will piobably represent the matter to the New South Wales cricketers.

The Representative Team. The following have been selected as the cricketing team to pioeced South :—: — Messrs Barton, Blair, Browning, Bucklaiul, F. Dufaur, Gill, Lankhcvm, Mumford, OBrien, Robinson, Tester, Wood, Wynyard, and Yates. It is said that the selection has not given satisfaction, even to some of those chosen, and that they decline unless some alterations aie made. Ainoil and Dewes, two of the best Auckland men, are unable to go. It is proposed by the promotcis of the scheme to leave heie about the middle of next month, but unless bomo better understanding is arrived at regarding the pnsonnel of the team in the meantime, a postponement will be necessary.

Lyttles Case. Wil liatn J ohn Lyttle who|\vas acquitted at tlie last .Supreme Court sittings on a charge of bigamy under direction of Judge Gillies, because there was not positive evidence that the woman mentioned in the first wife's certificate was the &arne woman as now appeared against him, was brought up at the Police Court to-day and again committed for trial, the Rev. McKeuzie Fia&er deposing that Little had admitted the bigamy to him, and other witnesses who had known Lyttle and his wife in Belfast could testify regarding identity.

Sad Drowning Accident. A lamentable accident occurred in the harbour to-day. A ship's boat loaded with piovisions was going off to the ship Ashmore, when a heavy sea swamped her and she sank. The North Shore steamer rescued Mr Laing, chief officer, and another seaman, who were clinging to an oar, but two other seamen wcie drowned.

The great seal of Great Britain and Ireland is affixed to yellow wax for Eng Hah documents, red for Scotch, and green for Irish. The senior soldier in the German army is Emperor William, its head. In March he entered on his eighty sixth year. The youngest soldier in the same army is the son of Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who is scarcely yet a month old, and who has just been enrolled by the veteran Emperor in the seventeenth regiment of Mecklenburg dragoons. Calcraft clung to the dismal occupation of hangman as long as he could, because as he said, he hoped some day to hang a reporter. The cheerful wish was doomed to remain ungratifiecl. Can it have been because reporters as a class are exempt from human failings ? That seems to be the inference that one must deduce from a recent incident at a meeting of the Salvation Army. One of the " Hallelujah lasses," anxious about lost souls, bent down over a young man whose attitude betokened penitence. Are your saved,,, my brother ?", she inquired. " Why," was the hurried reply,, " I'm a reporter." The clergyman who was asked for the .manuscript ot- his prayer certainly h>d tfie best of it <with another gentleman of the sa,meprofession. '' I never write "my prayers,*' -he said 1 . ',' I never heard a word of what you Baid, tshv"'^My friend, I'wasn't.pra^itfg to you." s ' -"