The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORTED The Evening News, The Morning News and The Echo.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1878.
For the cause that acks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the eood that we can do.
Cricket is the ruling passion of the age. Ever since 1774, when a committee of noblemen and gentlemen, presided over by the Duke of Dorset and Sir Horace Mann, reduced the game to rules, it lias occupied a foremost position among the favourite outdoor contests of pluck and skill in which Britons and their descendants heat the world. But it is only within a comparatively few years that the noble old game has .become emphatically Hie game of all others. The iinglish cricketers gave a new impetus to i l by their visits to the colonies; the Australians' Eleven imported the vigor of fresh Wood by their achievements in Great Britain and America, and now cricket is in the zenith of its fame. There are contests proceeding on agraud scale in Melbourne, between Lord Harris' team, and Fifteen Victorians ; in Adelaide, where Spoflbrth, the " demon bowler" of the Australian Eleven, has taken six wickets for " nullahs" from local players ; in Sydney, where the Sydney University has wrested the from with the kindred institution of Melbourne; and later still our special cable dispatches give details of the prowess displayed by New Zealand's Champions—the Clnistcliurch team — against Ballarat; and coming nearer home, preparations are afoot for the approaching matches between Taranaki and Auckland.
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Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2711, 28 December 1878, Page 2
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The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORTED The Evening News, The Morning News and The Echo. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1878.
Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2711, 28 December 1878, Page 2
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