25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 97, 18 January 1933, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Cricket in Sweltering Weather (From "The Dominion,” Jan. 17. 1908.1 Private advice received locally states that the New Zealand professional football team now in the Old Country has been booked to play a special match against "All England” on the Chelsea Association ground. * * ♦ The value of the wool exported from New Zealand during tlie year 1907 was £6.376.021. as compared with £0.765.655 for the preceding year. *' ♦ » Sir Edward Grey. Minister for Foreign Affairs, speaking at Alnwick, in Northumberland, reiterated his previous statement that if foreign nations executed' in entirety tlie naval programme they announced, it would undoubtedly be necessary for us. for the preservation of our independence and safety nt home, to make a further increase in the Navy. At Adelaide, with five wickets down for 130. the Englishmen, wirii 290 runs to make, continued their innings, but only succeeded in adding 44. being thus beaten b.v 245 runs. Tlie temperature was 108 in tlie shade. A return of the number of Chinese arriving at and leaving Wellington during the year just closed shows that tlie arrivals for the twelve months were 162. and the departures 136. as compared. witli 198 and 107 for tlie year 1906. Tlie figures for the three years previous to .1906 were as follow: — 1905: Arrivals 202. departures 162. 1901: Arrivals 159, departures 97. 1903; Arrivals 93. departures 85.