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Hampshire Match (Special to Press Association.) NORTHAMPTON, June 2. The New Zealanders had a satisfactory day on a good wicket, and maintained more than a run pen minute pace all day. Kerr and Tindill, in an attractive partnership, gave the side a useful .start before the former played one, well off the wicket, into, his stumpsWallace and Donnelly added 96 in SO minutes. Wallace was not so free as usual, but played all bis strokes cleanly in a sound half-century- Donnelly was confident and aggressive, driving, cutting, and pulling with fine freedom and hitting a dozen foursHe played an attractive innings, lasting just under (two hours, before being brilliantly caught one-handed in the slips- . Weir celebrated his birthday with his best innings of the tour- He batted with methodical deliberation, but held the innings together after lunch, seeing four men come and go, being the eighth out. The last six wickets fell for 130 before keen bowling and fielding, a feature of which was the capital wicketkeeping of James, a former New Zealander, who allowed only one bye and took two catchesNorthants, batted for 40 minutes, shaping very restrainedly before the steady bowling of Roberts and Duir ningThe Northants team is as follows: W- C- Brown. Snowden, Clark. Nelson Timms, Davis, Brookes, Partridge Buswell, Grimshaw, JamesThe scores are:—

NEW ZEALAND- —Ist Inn'-ngs-Kerr, b Clark Tindill, e Buswell b Timins 28 Wallace, c Davis b Clark 50 Donnelly, c Brown b Davis 89 Weir, b Buswell 06 Carson, b partridge !4 Page, c Janies b Partridge ‘ Roberts, c James b Buswell -- • • 10 Lamason. c and b Partridge .. . 2Gallichan, not out a Dunning, c Brown b Buswcll ... la Extras 30 Total Bowling: Clark 2/46, Paitridge 3/89, Timms 1/54, Buswell 3/89 Nelson 0/27, Davis 1/7, Grimshaw 0/1NORTHANTS— Ist Innings. Grimshaw, c Roberts b Dunning .. •' Nelson, c Carson b Dunning ... 3 Snowden, not out i Extras 0 Total for 2 wickets ... 2-1