CRICKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 123, 25 May 1908, Page 2

CRICKET.

THE PLUNKET SHIELD. [Br Telegbaph. — Special to Thb Posr.] DUNEDIN, 23rd May. The Otago Cricket Association has decided that as players from here could not got away before Christmas, the original dates for the Plunket Shield challenge must be adhered to. The Auckland Association and Cricket Council are to be advised accordingly. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.! CULVERDEN ESTATE. CHRISTCHURCH, 23rd May. Very numerous enquiries are being made and complied with at the local office of the Lands and Survey Departmen for sale maps of the Culverdeh Estate, and there is every indication that the number of applicants will be large. The hour and date upon which applications close is 4 p.m. on Friday, 19th June, at the District Lands Office in this city. The examination of applicants, either in this city or in the " land district in which . they reside, will commence at 9 a.m. at the Lands Office in this city on Tuesday, 23rd June. The ballot for sections for which there are more than one application will be held at the Lands Office here on Friday, 26th June, at 10 p.m. A BAND CONTEST. WESTPORT,' 24th May. Owing to incessant rains on Saturday the quick-step in connection with, the West Coast band contest had to be abandoned. The following complete the results. Trombone, solo, John Cummiiig (Westport) 39, Jas Cumming (Wes'tport) 38, T. Neighbours (G-ranity) 37. Boys' Competition, W. Cooper (Denniston) 37, A. Mac Masters 36. Grand selection, Inangahua (Reefton) 94, Westport 92, Grey Battalion 89, Hokitika 85, Grey Citizens 80. i PREVALENCE OF OBSCENE LANGUAGE. NAPIER, 24th May. Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., commented strongly at Hastings on Saturday on the prevalence of tho use of obscene language. Not only there, but all over the Dominion, drunken men stood in the streets and polluted the air with their filthy language within the hearing of women and children, who might otherwise never be subjected to the unpleas- ! ing ordeal. NEW HOUSE DESTROYED. 'NELSON, 24th May. An unfinished five-roomed house on Britannia heights, the property of Mr. B. Jones, was totally destroyed by fire last night. The building was insured in the South British office for £300. BURGLARY. GORE, This Day. 'M'Kenzie's store at Riversdale was entered on Friday night, when the proprietor was absent at a ball, and £20 stolen from the till. The thiof did not | take a number of cheques. | DUNEDIN CELEBRATIONS. | DUNEDIN, This Day. Owing to the attitude of the Volunteer officers in charge of cadets, none of the school endots are to take part in Mondn.y'6 Kmpiro ttav dettUmatrtttioa i**i Wia