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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 202, 30 August 1897, Page 3

4 BARQUE IN I>IST_KttSS. ♦. The barque Kinclune, from Rockhampton, Queensland and New Caledonia, with 1,050 tons chrome ore, pub into Suva, Fiji, on August 16th. On the 4th inst. she was struck by a heavy ssa and the cargo shifted bodily to the port side, throwing the vessel on her beam ends, with a great weight of water on decK. Every effor.t was made immediately to get the ship before the wind. After great difficulty this was done and all hands then came afb and requested the captain to make for the first port for the safety of their lives. Cafitain Jones therefore decided to make towards Suva. Afterwards all went down into the hold to trim the cargo. Nexb day the port side was full of water, all the hands being hard ab work down in the hold trimming cargo. It was found that the up and down iron stanchions had broken in two. The hands were engaged for several days,' in fact nearly until their arrival at Suva, brimming the cargo. The weather, however, continued very bad, with a heavy sea the whole time. Port of the cargo was to be discharged in order that repairs might be effected.

CORRESPONDENCE. IS THE DOMAIN" A PUBLIC GROUND? (To the Editor) Sir, —The cricket season will soon be round again, and as far as I know nothing has been done to pre yon _, if possible, the encroaching upon the cricket ground when crickeb is in full swing. Last season tbsre was a good deal of grumbling boeause the matches were greatly interfered with. The Crickeb Association bavo not, bo my knowledge, taken the matter up and agitated for an alteration in the present state of affairs. I raise my voice in protest against bhe manner in which bhe public are deprived of the use of the Domain—that is, the crickeb ground—which is their right and privilege, because it was conserved to bhem by the Sbate Governmenb. Year by year it is being encroached upon by those interested in private concerns to make money, and bhe City Council is not slow in taking advantage of them and scooping every pound they can into their coffers, Byeand-bye the public and patrons of cricket will be shut oub entirely if it is allowed to go on unchecked. The manner in which the cricket matches are interfered with during the season is enough to dampen the ardour of the greatest enthusiast of tho game. I believe there is not another place in the colony where cricket is interrupted the same as here. If lam not mistaken— years ago—it was the cricket management who wished ib to be enacted to make a charge for admission on particular occasions, because so many parsons went in without paying a cent. What has been the result? They have been debarred— and the public—from the use of the Cricket Ground when they most needed it, for the purpose of turning it into a moneymaking enterprise, and the City Council to reap a benefit also. The public should have protosted at the time and the powers of the City Council would, have boen curtailed. If the various clubs wanb to raise money leb them hire a private ground, where they will have a perfect right to charge, and the public can please themselves whether they will pay to go in, or go and witness the cricket matches on Saturday afternoons. Who have a better right to the Cricket Ground than tbe patrons of cricket, who, in the first instance, I believe, reclaimed a swamp for thab purpose, and spent a good deal of money and time, and new, after making it a fairly.good ground before the City Council oisumed authority, bhey are humbugged every season by the many interruptions of private sports? Whab is the Cricket Association going to do this coming season, grumble and do nothing in the matter ?—I am, etc., R.B. After the parade for the Governor's Guard of Honor on Thursday last the commanding officer of the Ponsonby Naval Artillery presented to tbe men of the corps the following certificates and badges :— 14 badges and certificates, bonus £2, for bhreej years passes in gunnery; four badges and certificates, six years' passes ; 28 badges and certificates, one year : also four stars for nine years' service; four stars, six years' service ;24 stars, three years' service. These certificates were earned in November lasb at the annual camp, when bhe men were examined in gunnery. Tbe commanding officer announced the shooting match for Saturday nexb, also the annual social, which takes place on the 3rd of September.

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