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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 109, 31 January 1908, Page 5

CRICKET.

Pollard's Opera Company met a combination from the Theatre Royal oil tho Basin Reserve yesterday afternoon, when the former team won by -10 runs on the first innings. For tho winners (who scored 176) ('. Thomas mado t;i (retired), 11. Qnealy 11 (retired), and C. Albert 16. C. Albert (four for 11), W. Low (three for 2i), and Quealy (tv.jo' for 12) bowled best. Fuller's team made IS6 (Cropp ■!!>). Cropp and Salmon wore tho "star" howlers from Johnston .Street. - All Wellington Boys* League matches fixed for Saturday have been postponed until Saturday, 'February 8. The annual match between teams representing the Australian .Mutual Provident Society and the Government Insurance Department, which has been a regularly recurring fixture for more than twenty years, was played on the College Ground yesterday, and resulted in a victory for the Dcpnrlment'by 21 runs on tho first innings. Hatting ■ .first.' the - Government team made 121, the highest scorers being Xiven 31, Houston 15. and Rose it. Amies anil '.llieksnn r-renrrd five wickets each. The A.31.1'. compiled 100, loivards which Ilickson contributed 20,\ Macbeth 1!), and Amies 13. Spenee (live wickets) and Houston (four wickets) bowled best for the Department, whilst Niven kept wicket in excellent style, not allowing a single bye.. Iu iheir second innings, the Government: Life had lost live wickets for 0!) when stumps were drawn (Paul, not out. T!J. Xiven, nut out, 20, anil Hoon IS). A feature of the play was the fine fielding of both sides. I'uul and liaise bringing off exceptionally good catches.

Modern playwrights, seem more and more to forget that wo do not go to tho theatres to bo shown our faults and frailties and tho dark sido of life, but rather in search of amusement and beauty and to bo uplifted by the presentation of the ideal. —"Gaulois," Paris. Tho prosperity of Egypt under Lord Cromer is an undeniable fact. In . twentylive years lie succeeded in making of Egypt :\ modern country. The only dark sido in this brilliant situation is the ancestral ignorance of the natives. —"Deutsche Rundschau;" Berlin.