CRICKET.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 2, 3 January 1900, Page 6

CRICKET.

The -annual match between tho Wairarapa. and Hutt County Cricket Associa^ tions at the Hutt was concluded yesteroay afternoon. Wairarapa made 103 and 135 for eight wickets. The Hutt scores were 75 and 81. Wairarapa thus Avon by three wickets and runs to spare.

The Greymouth Borough Council is about to call a meeting to consider the question of raising a forty thousand pound loan— For a water supply, 4312,204 ; drainage, £6621 ; public light£l2,2o4 ; drainage, £6621 ; public lighting, £16,000; 'and street improvements, £5175. Some boys playing at Maranui, hear Lyell's Bay, yesterday, found an old human skeleton — presumably that of a Maori. Returns received by the General Manager show that the passenger traffic on the New Zealand railways during the New Year constituted a record for that period of the year. This should further swell the surplus above the estimated recaiptu. '

What at first unpeared to be a somewhat serious nfiV.ir occurred npi'r the Pier Hotel yc-lciday nlternoon, during 11 quarrel between some Jiremtn tmd .seamen. The result v.'ds tbe appearance in Court thi.'i morning of James P. GVa-thy, a fireman on the Paparoa, who was convicted 1 and discharged for diunkenness, and William Petersen, one of tlio crew of * tho Rukaia, who wt>s charged with having assaulted and wounded Car thy with intent to do him 1 grievous bodily hunn. Dr. Henry deposed that Car'thy had a small wound, about an inch long, in the fleshy part of the scalp behind the lett ear, but it was not at all s>erious. The charge Avas therefore reduced to one of assault, and dealt with summarily. The evidence showed that tho quarrel originated inside the Pier Hotel, and was continued outside, when there waa a general scuffle in which a knife was s-ecn in tho hand of accused (who was under the influence of liquor), and Caithy was slightly wounded. Whan Constable Ryan arrived on the scene, Carthy had the knife, which ha,d been taken from Putersen, who when arrested said he was assaulted by sevarail of tho Paparoa men. In reply to accused, Carthy denied having called Petersen (v.ho is a Norwegian) a Boor, but admitted that they had been discussing the trouble in South Africa, when accused picked up Carthy 's beer and would nofc put it down. Ultimately the Bench fined Petersen £3 and costs, or oile month's imprisonment. At tho samfe sitting of the C6urb, Nicholas A. S. Gilclnisb, charged with assaulting Edward Clay, at Carterton, w,as remanded to appear at that place. Amongst the passengers by the s.h. Paparoa yesterday Avcro Messrs. Young, Edgar, and M'Eachran, who were selected by the Agent-General for veterinary surgeons' work under tho Agricultural Depal tment. •