CRICKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4489, 3 April 1876, Page 3

CRICKET.

AUCKLAND|C.C.;. V. PERIPATETICS. This match wis commenced in the Domain on Saturday last," and ended in a draw. Owing to the lateness o£ the hour (2.45) when play wa3,called, the wickets had to be; drawn just as the game was becoming most; exciting, the Auckland Club having 19 runs to get to win, with two wickets to go down, j Only some li}.lf-dozen players were on the! ground at tie advertised time for com-!

mencing the match, and the weather being all.that couldbe desired for cricket, and the! ground in excellent order, it was very an-; noying that an interesting match should be; spoilt by thiise'who made no effort to be punctual. For the Peripatetics, some excellent play was shewn by Simcox (15, not out), and Ward (9), while Castelli (14), and Hamilton (10), gained their runs by steady play. The esctras (20) brought the score of this innings to 89. , For the Auckland Club, Pilling contributed 27 by. some good play and free hitting, six threes being amongst his figures, and J. Lawry (10, not ont) was playing steadily when the pickets were drawn. Hamilton and Willis bowled well for the Peripatetics, and Cotton and Seecombe for the Auckland. Rice and Willis captained the respective sides. The following is the score :— . •.;.-.; .-, . PERIPATETICS. AUCKLAND. IstIsNINQS. . . , : Ist INNINGS. Swanson, b Seccombe S Secconibe,b Swanson C Bucklatid, c Swanson, Gleeson, b Yates 0 b Simcox 5; Pilling, c Itecce, b i fleece, b Yates 4 Willis 27. Willis, b Seccombe 0 Pliilson, b Hamilton 6, Watcrhouse, run out - 3 Cotton, ran out 4 : Castelli, b Cotton ~ .14 Yates, b Hamilton ' 0' i ; ' T. L. White, b HamilITamilton, b Cotton 10 . ton .0 Simcox, not out ' 15 J. Xawry, not out 10: Began, b Cotton 0 T. W. Marsh, b Willis 0; E. Dufaur,' b Cetton 0 Rice, not out ' 0' "Ward, run out 9 Blunden, Byes, &c. 20 Byes, 7 Total, SO Total ■ 71 : GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.—AUCKLAND V. PARNELL. A very friendly game of cricket was played in the Domain on Saturday last, between our two Grammar Schools, viz., Auckland and Parnell. For the Aucldand, Tonks and Butter batted well, while : "both the batting and bowling- of Dignan, who bids fair . to become one of our future cracks, formed the subject of talk throughout the field. For the other side, Williams and Jervis ran up 35, or nearly two-thirds of the Parnell score. The following are the scores :—

PA P.yELL. AUCKLAND. Williams, c Tonks, b Keid, o and b XudDignan 0 brook 0 Hamilton, c .Williams Stephens, rim out 3 b Lurtbrook 2 Dufaur, b Dignan 0 Arneil, bDuf*nr 2 Williams, not out 22 Tonks, b Ludbrook 10 Dignan, c Smith, b Smith, b Reid 0 Dufaur 17 Jervis, b Tonks 13 Ridins, hit wicket 9 „ . - McCormick, c and b 0 Beale, b Tonks 0 Ludbrook Butler, c and b DnEames, b Dignan faur 10 . _ Jt Buchanan, c and b Duludbrook, b Dignan 3 faur , 2 Lewis, b Reid 1 -Webster, b 'Williams 2 15xt . r » s -.:. . 12 Done, not out 2 _ . , •' \Kxtrajr 11 Total 66- - Total 70

An old toper says: "Goin'on a spree is like startin' a newspaper. You can begin it on a small capital, but it takes a pile to keep get it on a payin' basis.',' A-marned couple resembfe'a pair of sheai'4 so. iqined that they .cannot wellbe separated, moving often., in .opposite.: directions, ;but always punishing-whatever •comes-'between :..."_.:- ;„-' " ./"'l-';' I "'''' ''.Siiui | ■.;."■ •' I don't know anything ;mbre: trymittf the temper/' • says-<old■*Unele> Joe' Stebbingsi " than.for a man to ywihS up a clock every day [or twenty years, and'then find ont that the pesky thing is an eight-day consarn."

AND _THE .v.--;-.--. ■;>"., .PREMIER., . : , ; , r , )lv> The New Zealand Time* ; o_f '.the 2otbi Maicli contains four columns, of-correspondence between Sir Julius "Vogel and Sir George Grey on the relations between the province of Auckland and the colony. We give the ■ following "extracts, from the" correspondence,' and we append two letters in continuation which have not been published. We have already given the substance of the first part of the correspondence. In reply to a tele* gram about the matter being one of account, the colony having to find the money for the province, Sir George _ Grey says i—'.'The Treasury provides nothing ; it has.no right to take anything away. It has no power to grant anything. A. stoppage, in the sense you use it, means,. to take-away. I ought not to allow the "funds' of the people of 'this province to be unlawfully taken from them'.in one direction, in order that in another direction they should be made recipients of-a pecuniary bounty, if they seek it as suppliants from those who have no right to take away or to give public moneys. It'is this mistake as to the legal powers, and rights of your Governr ment, as , regards public funds and lands which has' entailed much misfortune on us. I cannot agree in your—view in favour of a secret settlement of public rights in- a Minister's room :hy two gentlemen. The rights of the people. of this province have, in my belief, been assailed with a high hand. Its population are intelligent, let the question .be openly settled before them, as it were in .their very presence.. They ought to know what the rights are, through whose fault' they may be deprived of them, what are the constitutional means" by ' which they may be maintained, and what are the principles'upon which' they are to be abrogated or confined. When a people who believe they are suffering under great-wrongs quietly appeal to the Courts of law to attempt to have their rights maintained, their action is not rightly described,by saying they are wasting money in law expenses." The Premier in- ; his next telegram remarks :— " It is evident the case has got so mixed up in your mind with a variety of circumstances over which your Honor has been for months brooding, that no decision could possibly meet your manifold requirements. Further discussion is therefore useless. I am surprised, however, ■ that your Honor fails to perceive the absurdity of the scolding you administered to the Legislature; my colleagues, and myself. I have no time to enter into a political discussion with your Honor ; besides that, such a discussion, mixed with ordinary business, would form a bad precedent. . . . . ■It will gratify ' your Honor to learn that the requirements ' of the province of Auckland are receiving ' anxious consideration ' from the Govern- •

ment; and no doubt in three or four months, when abolition takes place, many causes for discontent will be removed." The Premier, in his next communication, says :—I am glad to acknowledge that your Honor's last telegram is more respectful to the Legislature and the Government than those that preceded it, and therefore, I think, more fitting. . . . lam delighted to know your Honor at length recognises the benefit of abolition. . -.1 presume we may now anticipate aid from you in taking over the provinces. Touching Auckland* having its revenue, it seems to me it is in your Honor's mind that Auckland should have the money collected within its limits, : 'without paying anything for the cost of the services ..which yield the revenue, or contributing towards the interest on colonial.debt. This would no doubt he profitable to Auckland, but the other provinces would proportionately suffer. What your Honor desires, does to a great extent take place. That is to say, that, taking into consideration the special aids out of _given to Auckland, the balance raised within is not anything like a fair proportion of the cost of the services and of the public debt. Your 11 onor's'complaint is that (the province .:does not .get all. and ,pjy nothing." To this Sir George replies that he will give no aid in carrying out abolition in an uneonstitntional way, and he goes on to say :—" lam the elected head;.of a popu- : lation of more .than 70, C .3 souls, and lam charged by" ah 'Act of Parliament,; .conjointly, with, my . Council .and. within certain-, limits, to provide, for ~the peace, "order; and good government of this" province, and in all respects to iprotectits interests. This I will to the best of my ability do, at;all times and under all circumstances. The Act of Parliament to which I. allude makes mention of- the Governor, the Superintendents, the Speaker, the General Assembly, the Provincial Coun-

cil—to all of whom I owe a. defined allegiance, which I shall always obediently refer within the limits of law; but such an officer as yourself is not mentioned as havingany lawful right to interfere : in our affairs, and I 'neither owe nor will render allegiance to your office, when it is used adversely to our interests or in violation of the law, or of auy agreement which has been entered into.' I have neither asked nor sought for friendship or the contrary." In reply to this, the Premier says : —"lf your Honor recalled to mind the Royal Instructions to Governors, you would have no difficulty in understanding the relations which members of the Executive bear to the Governor, and to Superintendent-."'

[ The following are the concluding letters of the correspondence, now published for the first time:— [COJY.] Government Buildings, Wellington, 28th March,' 1576. His Honor Sir :<Z. Grey, Auckland.-—Your Honor's telegram has occasioned me much amusement." I can't treat it seriously. The remark has already been made that you return to the Ohinemuri miner's right 3, like Mr. Dick to the head of King Charles the First.. lam glad to learn that your Honor does not intend to address me in future on constitutional questions, although I am. not without regret for the fate you design for His Excellency. From several sources I" have heard that your Honor has .expressed the opinion that Lord Normanby would be the last Imperial Governor appointed to New Zealand. I feared your Honor expected some dreadful recollection, and it is a great relief now to think that you only suppose your letters to the Governor will deter anyone from accepting in future a similar (position ?) I shall send you the figures separately. I deal with the expenditure authorised by law. It appears to me your Honor considers that the laws should be as a minority of one approves, for sometimes you uphold, at other times you rail | against them.—(Signed) Julius Vogel. i

- ...-" '. [telegram.] .. Auckland, 31st March, 1576. To Hon. Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., M.G.A.—I feel real sorrow that you should have dejived.amusemeut from transactions of so.sad a nature as those you allude to. Your Government is so largely, responsible for them, that I am certain they ought to have filled you with a righteous indignation. I know, however, that there are many men of high and generous minds ihere whom the expression of such sentiments as you use will only nerve to the ennobling purpose of struggling to" the last to free themselves from all chance of such evils for the future. You credit me with prophetic utterances I never made, and could not have made. 1 do not know what the term Imperial Governor means in the way in which you use it. ' The conclusion of my last telegram points out distinctly enough that my object was to secure the Governor from submitting to see the powers of the Crown abused for wrong purposes. At present, the.Governors of colonies are. nominated by the .English. Minister of the hour for political orother ob'jects, "and the Crown is necessarily required to approve such nomination. Even in my lifetime, com: panies or other bodies hare in such manner' nominated Governors qr-Lientenant Governors for the Crown's approval.- Neither you nor I can know, that Sovereign might not rather have to ■.. approve-the , appointment of" a ! Governor chosen : by the entire peopl?here,v and'thus (endear; herself to all her subjects sbytallojving; thenvto'"select the man they deemed most worthy,)rather than a Governor perhapS^chosen.for, political or personal a Minister whose policy! Bhe might distrust.-Such a choice by herj people here Awould'f.open' great, hopes and worthy aspirations,, which must benefit-tho

1 entire population.' The Queen'graciously allows the election of Superintendents to govern provinces" instead! -of nominated lieutenant-Go vernors. Her Majesty has also given her subjects here the power of determining, by a law"to be assented to by herself," the mannerin" which her Governors here should be nominated for her approval. If yon have a right to entertain yonr opinion, that a nobleman nominated by a 'Minister with the title of Imperial Governor is the desirable mode of this being done, yon may surely allow me to hold my opinion on the snbject .without offering unseemly taunts.— (Signed) G. Gkev. '