JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 770, 19 March 1910, Page 10

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

(By. Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) .; . Wanginlii,' -March .18. The suggestion has. , .been made that a winter show should { te held' in AVangan'ui. One well-known felisiness man, who strongly supports the idea, says that ho considers the produce from this district far in advance of anything he has seen exhibited elsewhere.

The cricket match* to-day attracted a fair number of spectators to Cook's Gardens,. wherfe a fair pitch had been propped, 1 'but tho Outfield was very rough-;--. Tho local team did not mako nnich'of. ashow in'-batting; nine wickets being.- dowri.';for 76,':. but. tho last wicket did , well;-.-.though it cannot.be said that tho bowling was by any means the best that the Australians could Wo utilised, slnco Dodds, Mayne, Qorry, aud Bardsloy were amongst tho trandlera tried. Tho batting of; tho Australians did not conio up to expectations, and Holland must bo credited, with doing well with the ball. In addition to gottiilg a couple of wickets, he beat Bardsley two or 'three times, but missed the wickets. What to-morrow

will bring forth is. hard to say, but the local men havo certainly done well to got rid of. six of the visitors bo cheaply. Colonel Somervillo is again confined to his bed by a serious illness. No trace has yet: been descoveral of the whereabouts of Miss Sutton, who has been niissiDg since Tuesday last.