CRICKET.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 163, 1 December 1896, Page 5

CRICKET.

THE PAYMENT OF AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS. [PBEB9 ASSOCIATION.] (Received December 1, 8 a.m.) Sydney. This Day. Iredale's letter to the Cricket Association asking for certain terms as to the play in the forthcoming intercolonial matches, was considered at a meeting of the Cricket Association to-night. It was decided to inform Iredale that he must follow the usual custom of asking for payment at the conclusion of the matches. Dunedin, This Day. The Australian cricketers left by the Mararoa for Tasmania last night. A match played yesterday at the Basin Reserve between the Bank of New Zealand and the Combined Banks of the city was won by the former by an innings and 116 runs. The Bank of New Zealand scored 212 runs— Cuff, 122; Glasgow, 39; Clark, 16. The Combined Banks made 68 in the first innings and 38 in the second, the chief scorers being— Morrah, 18 j Harden, 20; and Black, 14. Kaiwarra defeated Jobnsonville in a Junior Association match on Saturday by 15 runs on the first innings. Kaiwarra scored 41— W. Crowe, 17 ; Overend, 6 ; and Holmes, 4 not out. Jobnsonville replied with 26 — Yeatts, Picken, and Mijore making 4 each. Crowe, four wickets for 10 runs, and E. Knight, five for 10, did the trundling for the winners, Darmody and J. Moore bowling effectively for the losers. Ladies and children will find mnch benefit by a course of spring and summer medicine. Woods's Fig Laxative will be found suitable to lioth sexos, also children. Livor troubles, biliousness, and indigestion are relioved porluariQittly by it. The preparation is prepared i ntirely from fresh fruit, consequently ft is i datable and refreshing. Sold everywhere, 1^ Od and 2s 6d.— Advt.