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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 275, 13 August 1908, Page 3

Tho offer of a cricket trophy as a material emblem of victory ought to be dismissed as merely supererogatory. In comparison with tho victory tho prize's insignificance must appear altogether ludicrous; ono might as well stimulato rowing by offering a piece of plate for tho Oxford and Cambridge boat race. —" Field." The historians of tho Mutiny marvel that tho signs of what was coming wore not plain to Englishmen in India. _ Tho historian of tho futuro will marvel in just tho same fashion about the present period. Last tirno wo had to deal with a discontented soldiery; this time wo may havo to deal with a wliolo peoplo.—" Observer." A certain trait of-a fool is his zest living. This is so marked that tho wonder is, considering how keen wo all are in tho quest for happiness, that wo,do not at once adopt tho motley as a universal garb.— I "Atlantic