CRICKET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7385, 11 February 1902, Page 3

CRICKET.

Playing for the County Club at Napier, Trott went in first and carried his bat through the innings, which totalled 136, of which the crack made 104. We talk together of exciting matches, and r(aayß "Felix") mention one in England in 1882, in which the strain, even for the spectators, was so severe that one onlooker dropped down dead, and another with his teeth gnawed pieoes out of the top of his vmbrella. That was the match in which for the final balf-hout you coald have heard a pin drop, while the celebrated batsmen A. P. Luoas and Alfred Lyttelton were together, and Spofforth and Boyle bowling at them as they never bowled before. That was the match in which the last English batsman had to screw bis courage to the sticking place by the aid of champagne, when one man s lips were ashen-grey and his throat so parched that he could hardly speak aa he strode by me to the creaße ; when the scorer s hand shook »o that he wrote Peates name exactly like » Geese,'' and whan, in the wUd tumult at the fall of the last wicket, the crowd in one tremendous roar cried, •• Bravo, Australia! with a special cheer for Bpofforth, who in that grand final bit of bowling took four wickets fpr 3 runs off 44 balls against the cream of tbe English batsmen. That was a match worih playing in, and Idoubt whether, for prolonged and terribly trying tension, there wilt ever be won another game. Lest we forget —Australia won thiß test match by 7 runs.

In reply to a deputation at Wellington the Premier said he would place before the Cabinet a suggestion that the Government should subsidise a steamer to the Chathams in order to provide more frequent communication. He would also bring under the notice of the Land Purchase Commisßioner the question of sending an officer to report on a portion of Pitt Island, offered to the Government for eettlement purposes. The time has gone by whan either Englishmen or Americans could seriously Tiew the prospect of an armed struggle between the two nations as anything but a form of fratricide. We have our disputes and difficulties still, and we may have more iv the future, but we shall not fight over them, because, as practical people, we both feel that the game oan neter be worth the conflagration which would be that candle by the light of whioh it would be played."— Pall Mall. *"The London police authorities issued a warning to householders as to the danger of leaving houses unprotected at Christmastide. In 1900 the police had over 150 burglaries reported to them on Christmas' and Boxing Day, involving a total loss of nearly £1000, a great deal of which could hate been prevented by the simple process of informing the " beat " constable that the house would be left unprotected, when »3 eye wouldlbe given to it. Cook wanted. Tenders for painting Hawera Courtbouße invited. Messw D. and J. Smith, carnage builders, have a notice in this issue.