OTAGO.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1192, 4 February 1864, Page 5

OTAGO.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Dunedin, Saturday, Jan. 30. Ihb Canterbury cricketers arc in our midst, through wliorn and by whom I am a poorer man to the extent of two new hats and veils, one hundred cigars, and the cost of a bottle of (execrable) sherry. I lcnew quite well we should beat your Christchurch team, but I looked upon it that it would be a positive breach of hospitality to bet against them. They are a fine gentlemanly lot of fellows, take them altogether, and if. they do not know quite so much of cricket ua our set, I think they could teach us in something we are, many of us, very deficientgood manners and a courteous bearing. If cricket is to be the medium by which a cordial and friendly feeling is to be maintained among the New Zealand provinces, and if cricket means something more than mere hitting a ball very hard or catching it very cleverly, we must make a radical change, or we shall reduce this noble game in Dunedin to the level of skittles or ten pins. For instance, a very excellent team did us the honor of coining all the way from Invercargill at, of course, considerable expense and loss of time. We let these gentlemen find their way amongst ua. We played them, beat them, and let them depart without so much as walking down to the steamer to bid them good bye. I fear we are treating your Canterbury people little better. We are preparing at an enormous expense, and with a false enthusiasm, to deify the members of the AllEngland Eleven Team, whose arrival is hourly looked for, to an extent which, in my opinion, goes to prove our snobbish tendencies. For good and true as no doubt the members of the All-England really are, and much as they are entitled to a right hearty welcome, this should not be at the entire expense of the attentions due to our provincial brethren, who no doubt possess the sensitiveness to feel the want of hospitality so very apparent. Our cricketers require that their proceedings should be reported in the fullest manner in all the local journals; they are extremely annoyed if any mistakes are made in the report of their doings, and particularly if their speeches are not duly chronicled; yet they seldom furnish the papers with the scores of games which have been played, and the reporters, who cannot well leave the field during an important match, are asked to pay for their refreshments, and are called upon to drink the health and prosperity of all and everything pertaining to cricket, in doing which the waiter attending on the club says— " Seven and sixpence, if you please, sir." When a cricket dinner is given, the press reporters are graciously permitted to seat themselves at the table when the cloth is removed—which, I am happy to say for the honor of the profession, the reporters refuse to do. If the gentlemanly element is not to mix with cricket, the sooner we cease to make it a provincial pastime the better. Your cricketers play a good game, and by and bye will make a very formidable eleven. They field better than our men, but are all at sea with the bat against such excellent bowlers as we possess. The following is the Canterbury score, first innings:— Wilson, r o Macdonald, thrown Morris 2 C. Powys, b Macdonald ... l Tennant, b Macdonald 1 Lance, c Jacomb, b J. Mace 3 E. C. J. Stevens, r o Maddock, thrown Jacomb 5 J. S. Sale, c Macdonald, b J. Mace 0 Bennett, leg b w, b Macdonald 5 Mytton, b J. Mace 7 J. W. Stevens, not out 3 Dickinson, c Hope, b J. Mace 2 Taylor, b Macdonald ... l Byes 2 Leg byes 0 Wide balls 0

34 Wickets fell—l for 2, 2 for 3, 3 for 6, 4 for 7, 5 for 12, 6 for 13, 7 for 25, 8 for 25, 9 for 27, 10 for 34. Analysis of bowling—Macdonald, 1 no ball, 82 balls, 14 runs, 12 maidens, 4 wickets; J. Mace, I no ball, 80 balls, 16 runs, 11 maidens, 4 wickets. This match was resumed on Thursday morning, the Otago team going to the wickets for their second innings at noon. The weather was very showery during the day, and necessitated the suspension of the game once or twice during its progress. The play, as will be seen from the subjoined score and analysis of the bowling, was better on both sides than that of Wednesday, the fall of the wickets being more even, and the average score higher. As is usual in such cases, we suspend our notice of the events of the match until its conclusion :— Otago Second Innings. J. Fulton, b Taylor 1 11. D. Haddock, c C. Stevens, b Taylor 4 C. Morris, run out, thrown Sale 2 C. Mace, b J. W. Stevens 0 J. lledfern, c Wilson, b J. W. Stevens 13 J. H. Hope, c Dickinson, b Tennant 17 F. Macdonald, b Tennant 12 J. Mace, b Dickinson ... 8 J. N. Jacomb, b Dickinson 2 G. F. Turton not out 0 li. Coulstock, b Dickinson 0 Eyes 7 Leg byes ... 3 Wide balls 2 No balls 0 74 Wickets fell—l for 4,2 for 9, 3 for 13, 4 for 14, 5 for 31, G fpr 57, 7 for GB, 8 for 72, 9 for 73, 10 for 74. Analysis of bowling—Taylor : 80 balls, 25 runs, II maidens, 2 wickets. J. W. Stevens : 1 wide ball: 104 balls, 25 runs, 13maidens, 2 wickets. Tennant, 1 wide ball, 52 balls, 7 runs, 7 maidens, 2 wickets. Dickinson : 25 balls, 7 runs, 3 maidens, 3 wickets. The wickets were pitched again at 12 o'clock today, for the final innings of the Canterbury Eleven, and we may add that the case is by no means so desperate for them as it may at first sight appear to be; for there are very many instances on record in which the day has been gained, even under far more disadvantageouscircumstancesthanthosein which our gallant friends from Christchurch are placed. We understand that a banquet will be given by the Dunedin Club to their guests this evening, at the Provincial. Covers to be laid for seventy. THIRD DAY. Canterbury 2nd Innings. Wilson b. Macdonald 1 J. W. Stevens b. Macdonald 6 A. Powvs c. Hope, b. Macdonald 0 J Tennant c. Redfern, b. Macdonald 3 Lance, c. Redfern, b. J. Mace ... ... ... 0 Sale, not out ••• 15 J. Bennett c. Fulton, b. Jones 5 Mytton c. Fulton, 1). J. Mace 3 Dickinson c. Hope, b. Macdonald ... ... 0 Taylor c. J. Mace, b. Macdonald 5 Byes 1 Leg byes 1 Wide balls 2 No ball 1 42 Analysis of bowling—J. Mace bowled 80 balls for 20 runs, 9 maidens, 4 wickets, 1 wide ball. Macdonald, 77 bails, 17 runs, 10 maidens, 6 wickets, 1 no ball, 1 wide. Otago. Ist innings ... 78 2nd do 74 152 Oantmu!i:ry. Ist innings 34 2nd do 42 70 Majority for Otago 7(i According to arrangement, as far as it was possible to carry it out, the All England Eleven were to arrive at Port Chalmers at nine o'clock this morning. The announcement of arrival was to be telegraphed, when the carriages and cavalcade were to start from Dunedin in procession to take up the cricketers. It is now twelve o'clock and no telegram is to hand. It is stated to be blowing an adverse gale of wind outside the Heads, so that it is quite possible the Alhambra, in which the cricketers are passengers, may not arrive until to-morrow, or perhaps Monday. There are two matches now on the programme. The first is between the All England Eleven and the Dunedin Twenty-two, and the second the all England against eleven of Canterbury and the same number of Dunedin. The provincial teams combined will really make a powerful twentytwo. Pleuro-pneumonia, I fear, continues to spread among the cattle of our province. I really give the Government great credit for the energetic course they are pursuing to keep the disease from extending beyond those limits within which the existence of the disease was first made known. Inoculation has been tried, and in a few days the result will be made known. Forty-two head have been experimented on at Eaßt Taieri, and

with very satisfactory results. I know that anything relating to this terrible disease will interest your country readers, I therefore send you the following report, received by the Government yesterday afternoon from Mr. Bust, inspector of diseased cattle at Waikouati:— " To the Chief Inspector of Cattle and Sheep for the Province of Otago. Sik, —I have the honor to report— " Ist. That on the morning of Monday the 25th inst. I proceeded to a paddock, in which the milking herd of John Orbell, Esq., are running, in consequence of information given to me that two diseased bullocks, belonging to Mr. Jones, were to be found therein. I could only find one, I believe a recent importation, which, though rather dull, was grazing amongst some other cattle, and evinced no other sign at that time. In the neighborhood I found a local bred bull, owned by Mr. Orbell, amongst a lot of fine cows, belonging tj some small dairymen, which bull had also been reported to me as diseased, and which certainly showed unfavorable symptoms, but Mr. Orbell stated that the animal had been much bruised and injured by a larger bull, which might cause somewhat similar signs, but the short back and other suspicious symptoms would have induced me to order the bull into quarantine had wc possessed such accommodation. The animal in question was for some twenty-four hours amongst the herd which was totally destroyed by Mr. Jones

2nd. I also paid a second visit to Mr. Hepburn, on Monday, and found his cattle in much the same state as before, the fineness of the weather and state of the pasture being, in my opinion, sufficient reason for the disease being more tardy in its development.

"3rd. Having visited Dunedin on Tuesday and returned same night, I was proceeding to Matanaka about noon on Wednesday, when I met Messrs. F. Orbell and — Phillips, owners of the infected herd, who informed me that they had just killed one of the beasts which shewed bad, and found the trouble to consist of tumors in the liver or lungs (I forget the exact term used) and on asking where I should find the carcase I was informed that they had thrown it over the cliff into the sea. However, the case alluded to in No. 3, was of so decided a character, and I am otherwise so satisfied that the seed of the disease exists in the herd, that whatever may have been done in my absence, I shall not shrink from my duty in keeping the restrictions on the cattle in question until time proves their safety, or the unfortunate reverse. Like the case alluded to in clause two of this report, I feel satisfied that the present state of both weather and pasture has greatly to do with the comparatively slow march of the disease. Hoping to receive a favorable reply to my application of Tuesday, for a quarantine ground or paddock, I have the honor to be, " Yours, &c., " Robt. D. Bust." The new Hamilton's diggings are not paying anything equal to what was expected of them. Want of water is th® great drawback. In summer, too dry, in winter too cold and wet, the Hamilton will only do for the hardy, experienced miner with some means to live while the gold is being got at. From Mount Benger, Waitahuna, Dunstan, and Gabriel's, the accounts are not particularly encouraging.

His Honor the Superintendent, accompanied by Mr. Vincent Pyke, Gold Commissioner, and Mr. Cutten, Commissioner of Crown Lands, is making the tour of our gold-fields. Deputations and dinners awaite him on his line of march, and as the Superintendent is every inch a gentleman in manner and bearing, as well as a man of business and the world, he succeeds admirably in returning answers and replies to requests which, if he were Emperor of all the Russias, he could not possibly comply with. One o'clock. Arrival of the All England Eleven not telegraphed. Weather forboding rain and wind.