CRICKET.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 February 1907, Page 3

CRICKET.

The English Team. THE ENGLISHMEN V. WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, Monday. Heavy rain in. the night and again in the morning delayed the resumption of the cricket match till 11.50; The wicket is sticky, and is likely to get much Worse as the sun dries it. The outfielding is very soft. Collins ran himself out in the first over for 7. Williams and Cobcroft are now together. . The overdraft of the Timaru orough Council now stands at£ssso. A Manawatu .paper states that a farmorion the West; Coast has put up, a 'good- performance this season. Being unable to secure labour, he and two sons haro harvested nearly 150 acres of heavy crop, and his bill for outside labour has come to- under 30s. Besides this, they have managed to milk 14 cows every morning. The average valuations of New Zealand's exports of wool show the following remarkable expansion in the last 5 years:— l9ol-2, 4.84 d per lb; 1902-3, 6.01 d per lb; 1903-4, 4.37 d per lb; 1904-5, 9.05 d per lb; 1905-6, 10.45 d per. lb. The year 1905-6 shows thus an advance in" this respect equal to about , 116 per cent upon 1901-2. ; A serious result has followed upon [the recent flood in the Maungakahia i;district, near. Whangarei (says the 'Auckland "Star"). A_ considerable portion of the country side has been coyI ered, to a greater or lesser extent, by a. coating of silt brought down by the Hikurangi river, a tributary of Maungakahia, and left on the flat ground by the receding waters. The silt, dried by the sun, has settled into a solid mass, not unlike cake of cement, and as hard as a sun-baked brick. This, is absolutely unfertile, and it is so hard that nothing could grow in or through it, so that the loss to settlers in the district will be considerable. It is extraordinary that so hard a deposit should have been so rapidly .formed. \y. - — =