THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS IN ENGLAND The Match at Lords. [REUTER'S CABLEGRAM. ]

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1858, 3 June 1884, Page 2

THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS IN ENGLAND The Match at Lords. [REUTERS CABLEGRAM. ]

London*, May 30. The cricket match, Australians v. the Gentlemen of England, was resumed today at Lord's, in the presence of an enormous number of people. The weather was splendid throughout the day, and the wicket was again in excellent condition. The Australians, with 83 runs to their credit, and 5 wickets down, continued their first innings. Blackham and Bonn or, the not outs of yesterday, taking their places at the wickets. The former only added 6to his soore (making it i' 2), when he was bowled out, Bonnor made a good defence, and ran up an additional 26 before gi\ en out. The remainder of the team (Scott, Palmer, and Boyte) only contributed 17, and the innings closed for a total of 133. The following is the full score :—

Spoflbrth, owing to an injury sustained in the first innings of the Gentlemen, was nimble to bat, his right haml being completely disabled. The visitors, being 142 behind their opponents, had to follow on their second innings, and succeeded in putting together 269 runs, Scott played an excellent innings for 82 (not out), Giffen 24, Midwinter 38, Blackham 22, and Palmer 47, also showed good foun. The full score of the innings was as follows :—: —

Scott, Spolfoith was again unable to bat. Requiring 128 inns to win, the Gentlemen went in for their second innings, and whon the stump 3 weie drawn for the day, their score stood at 17 for 1 wicket down— Studd. being caught and bowled tor 1 run.

[Received June 3, 10.50 a.m.] London, May 31. Theciickct match was resumed and concluded at Lord's to day. The home team, having one wicket down for 17, and requiring 128 to win the match, put together that number with the; loss of only 6 -wickets, thus winning by 4 wickets. The attendance of spectatois wa» \ery large, great interest being taken in the match. The weather during the day was fine. In the second innings of the Gentlemen of England, the highest scoters were : Grace, c, 20 ; Reed, c, 27 ; Sfceele, not out, 35 ; Dwer, not out, 22.

A Mr tind Mrs Dunbar, of Auchinlock, celebiated their golden wedding recently, and, what was even more rennrkable, the minister who performed the ceremony was present. Lk Grand has staited 20 times, won 12, placed 5, and unplaced 3 tinier. Not a bad record. Martini-Henri started 7 tunes, won three races, twice placed, and twice not placed. It is estimated that the actual production ot clean bcoured wool for the last tan yeais in Australia, South Africa, and South America reached the enormous total of 2, 74 1,000, 0001 bi This was equal to about 15,000,000 bales of ordinary greasy wool, and the value is roughly stated at about £250,000,000 sterling. Tin; CoN.sTKUcnox ov the Portlud BRKiKWAThR. — Says Public Opinion :— The rapidity with which the breakwater was constructed reflected great credit on Mr toode. The actual routine of the construction followed, when the line for the structure had been sounded and caiefully marked out, was to commence piling for the railway that was to carry the long tiain of waggons filled with stone ; when a short piece of this was completed, to go on " tipping in " the rubble and rough stone till they made their appearance above water at last ; then the piling was carried forward a few yards, and the process lepeated, and so on by successive stages to the completion of the woik. All nppeais simple on paper, until we leain that it had to be accomplished thiough 11 fathoms of rougn tumbling waves. One night's ro.igh weather often swept away the timberwoik that cost thousands of pounds, and many months of labour to constiuct and fix in its position to the sea. The piling that had to resist the action of a deep and heavy sea, and to carry al&o, at a height of 90 feet a railway for the heaviest traffic, lequiied to be something more, than a common framework of timber. Every log used had to be first of all saturated to its very centre with creosote, and this was done in a most ingenious manner. A great boiler 100 long and 7 feet in diameter, was filled with largest and finest logs procurable ; the mouth being closed with a solid air-tight cover, the air was pumped out, not only from the tube, but fiom the very pores of the wood itself. When the vacuum was as complete as possible the creosote was admitted from tanks at the bottom and forced into the timber by hydraulic power of about 300lbs to the square inch. In this the logs remained for two or three days by which time the creosote was forced into the fibre of the wood. Several of the log 3 thus prepared bolted and bound together, till one huge spar 90ffc long and 8 or 9 tons in weight was formed. Then an iron " Mitchell " serew — as used in lighthouses built on sand was affixed at the lower end, and the whole sunk till it rested on the bottom, and it was worked round by a capstan till it was firmly screwed into the clay. Thus secured, they were tolerably safe, though single heavy waves would upioot piles and mooring together, to obviate which two or three piles were generally set at the same time, and well bound together by powerful cross t'mbers. The stone quarried for the breakwater from the very top of Portland Island was largely excavated and brought to the spot by convict labour. The stone itself used was unfit for architectual purposes, but quite suitable far the breakwater. The convict prison, also on the top of the island, was virtually the barracks of 900 labourers, w ho were more profitably employed than in walking a treadmill or picking oakum. The quarries were some 400 or 500 feet above the level of the breakwater, and the atone was conveyed to it by three inclines of broad double-gauge rails. The trains of truck or wagons were worked up and down with a wire ropo over a drum the weight of the descending wagons winding the empty ones up again to the quarries. A powerful locomotive pushed the loaded trains to the end of the work, where the stone was tipped into the sea, as much as 3000 tons a day having been sunk at Portland. The total amount so committed to the deep was about 5,3G0,000 tons and the are* protected by the breakwater would accommodate 60 of the very largest men-of-war and almost any nurojkr of smaller vessels, * ;

McDonnell, c . . B.uincrman, b . Murdoch, c attfcn, b Midwinter, b .. lilackhtini, lbw B'innor, c 13 Scott, not out . . 7 9 Palmer, b . 8 0 Boyle, run out 3 1 Extras ... 3 5 42 Total ... 135 44

B.innermau, c McDonnell, b Murdoch, b Gitfcn, b Midwinter, b Bonnor, run out .. Scott, not out 17 1 IS 24 38 i) 82 Blackham, Ibw 22 Pfilmur, c . . 40 Boyle, run out 8 Extras .. 11 Total ..2'59