M.C.C. TOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 212, 6 September 1911, Page 5

M.C.C. TOUR.

1 DATES OF THE BIG MATCHES. l ' MELBOURNE, September 5. The Allotment Committee has fixed the e following commencing dates for the chief matches of the English cricketers' tour: —November 10, South Australia; November 17., Victoria; November 24, New South Wales; December 1, Queensland; December 8, Eleven of Australia, at Brisbane; December 15, first test match, at Sydney; December 31, second test match, j Melbourne; January 12, third test match, I| at Adelaide; February 2, Victoria ; Feb- | ruary 9. fourth test match, at Melbourne; ' i February 16. New South Wales; February 23, fifth test match, at Sydney; March 1, South Australia. The dates require the Board of Control's endorsement. COUNTY CRICKET. (Received 1050 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. The county cricket championships have concluded. Kent are second to Warwick- " shire with a percentage of 73.84; Middle--1 sex third with 7-1.81;- Lancashire fourth ' with 62.00; Suney fifth, with 60.C6; 8 then come Essex, Yorkshire, Notts, Worcestershire, Northants, Hampshire, Glour certershife. Sussex, Derbyshire, Leices- * ter and Somerset. t A FEDERAL SESSION. g A 810 PROGRAMME. f . MELBOURNE, September 5. e The Governor-General (Lord Denman) a opened the Federal Parliament to-day. '" The Governor's Speech referred to the *" continued general prosperity of the Come monwealth and the importance of the work of the Imperial Conference to the ? Dominions, the building of the Australian navy, tho patriotic response of " youths Tinder the universal training ™ scheme, and the proposed revision of the ' tariff with a view to getting rid of v anomalies. 8 The programme of the session includes '" a Commonwealth Bank, transcontinental ™ railway, navigation bills, also measures * to codify the criminal law and amend the § electoral, old age pensions, and Concilio- ° tion and Arbitration Acts. It is stated that Ministers have under consideration the establishment of reciprocal trade with New Zealand and Canada, PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE.. (Received 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. Sir Oichton Browne, at the Sanitary ? Inspectors' Conference, questioned whether a large expenditure on sanatoria r under the Insurance Bill might not be more profitably employed in improving ."• the housing of the people. Prevention was more important than cure.