THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

Bruce Herald, Volume X, Issue 958, 16 November 1877, Page 3

THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN.

Thft arrangements for the principal cricket; matches which the Australian Eleven will play in -the eo\op T iea before they- leave for England may .be regarded as complete. Oq Saturday (says the ' Argus') the fcerioa g-nd conditions bad been signed by tea players—rvij?, Messrs Allan, Blackham, Boyle, Kendall, and Horan, of Victoria j and Messrs D. Gregory, Spofforth, Murdoch. IMonerraan, and Garretr, of New South Wales. Th* name of Mr Bailey, of T»emanja? may b.« considered aa included, because be would h&ye signed the instrument*before this ii be had bad the opportunity to do so. Ii is not probable tb»fc Thomson, of Sydney will be taken. The E>vep have stji strong hopes that Mr Ilvans wi|l be in- , duced to go with them. . Midwinter hat b^a juvite4 to play with the teaw it

England; no doubt he will gladly accent the engagement offered to him, and room will then be made for him. From Melbourne the E even go to New Zealand They begin at Invercargill ou the 10 -h or 12th of January ; thmi follow matches at Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Napier (possibly ), and Auckland. The finai contear. will take place at Christchurch, when New Zealand will be represented by a picked learn from the whole, .colony. Farewell matches will be played in Sydney,; Mcl bourne, and Adelaide inFabruary, and the team will start for London by one of the steamers of the Orient" line (Suez route) in March. It was mentioned that inducements had been held out by the Sydney Association to the E'even to take 'part in the return intercolonial match at Sydney in February, but the whole of the members have resolved to play in no intercolonial matches this season. For the sake of discipline and good feeling they will nowhere enter the cricket field save as colleagues. The Eleven have been promised an excellent reception in New Z-a-land, and the otters sent to them show a strong desire to save them as much expense and trouble as possible; It is expected that the colonial matches will provide them with funds enough for the charges of the campaign in England. The terma of the agreement are very strict. The verj latest information, says : — Thompson has agreed to go with, the team. The cricketers, judging from their occupations, will be a very different lot from the.Englialimen, as Murdoch and Garret t are lawyers, >Evaus is Commissioner of Crown Lands, Spnfforth is a bank clerk, &£. A well-known cricketer, wri ing about Batmerman, says " that he. worked in the Sydney Miut, and has followed many occupation?, but his greatest Buccess ia cricket." ENGLISH. - An extraordinary matcli has been plwyed ah home between the Castleton and ltushholmo clubs. The former went to the wickets first, and sored 484 runs for the loss of only three wickets. . This on a dead ground, and in fi*e hours and a quarter. The United North have bea'en the Uuited South in a single, ionipga, despite the innings of Mr Grace, who. scored (31 and 24 Mr E Et. Butler and Midwinter were both playing, but only mansgyd to get eight runs in their four innings. This match, the nearest approach to the old interesting contents between; the AllEngland and United; was chiefly remark able for the scores of Lockwood (103) and Barlow (82). . Cricketers all the world over, will hear with regret that Mr W; G. Grace has been injured in one of his eyos by the accidental discharge of a gun while shooting on the Earl of Westmorland's estate at Apethorpe. The shots were extracted, and it is hoped the eyesight will not be lost. .