CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 196, 26 August 1901, Page 3

CRICKET.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Aug. 28. At cricket eight centuries were made in live innings yesterday. Fry compiled 149 against Middlesex, recording his tenth century this season.

Tlie world is full of paradoxes, but the most curious of the lot is the case of the man who fell off his “ safety ” bike and broke his neck.—Sydney Truth. If the Government, instead of coddling the working classes and dancing attendance on Labor Unions, would take steps to stop perjury in our courts, they would bo doing the colony a service.—Wairoa Guardian.

There are indications that in the future the world will be more influenced by young and hopeful men than by septuagenarians with whom caution has become as callous as their joints.—Greymouth Argus. Dictum of one Australian Premier:

” It requires more real talent and energy to be a successful book agent than to bo ft successful politician.” And more eloquence, too, he might have added. —Melbourne Punch.

Between the energy and skill of America, and the untiring patience and hard study of the Germans, the English have two" formidable competitors in the matter of industrial and commercial supremacy.—Invercargill Times.

An exchange thinks it is about time the New South Wales Attorney-Generalput a stop to trivial cases coming before a judge. It took a judge, several barristers and lawyers, a dozen jurymen, and many policemen, a whole day recently to decide whether two boys had stolen a shilling s worth of corks found in their possession.

At a meeting of the Dunedin Hospital Trustees the remarks made by Mr Thomas Mackenzie, M.H.E., respecting the alleged ill-treatment of a patient bynurses in the Dunedin Hospital were referred to, and on the motion of the Chairman it was resolved that the Government be asked respectfully, but firmly, to set up a magisterial into the statements made by Mr T. Mackenzie, and that gentleman oe asked to be present or represented. The trustees expressed much indignation at the attack on a defenceless nurse, and there were manyhard things said of Mr Mackenzie. The Chairman said that if, as stated, a patient was slapped on the face by a nurse the other patients must have seen it. He had received a telegram from patients in the ward at the time, all expressing their readiness to give evidence to refute the charges. When Mr Mackenzie had flared up in the ward it was suggested that he should see the house surgeon, but be said he was too busy. The Chairman denied that the patient referred to was too weak to be removed. It was five weeks before his death, and he could have been taken to any part of the colony.