CRICKET.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4824, 29 November 1902, Page 5

CRICKET.

TO-DAY’S SENIOR GAMES, The iriatoh between Wellington and Midland will be resumed on the Basin Reserve this afternoon. The Midlandors are all out for 151 runs, while Wellington has lost one wicket for 16 runs. To-day’s play should advance the match' to a very interesting stage. The Phoe-nix-Old Boys game will also be resumed at the same time and place, Old Boys, with three wickets down in their second innings, still needing 38 runs to avert a defeat by a margin of one innings.

Special to tub “ Times.” CARTERTON, November 28. In connection with the visit of Lori Hawke’s team, the New Zealand Cricket Coined asked for a guarantee of £IOO it Wairarapa was included in the visitors’ itinerary. Mr S. H. Nichoils, the secretary of the Wairarapa Association, has informed the council that the guar, antoe Ls practically assured. A meeting of tho association will bo held next week at Carterton to make arrangements for the match, which will occupy two days, and probably take place on ■ the school ground at Masterton. NAPIER, November 28. By the San Francisco mail, A. K. Trott wrote to tho president of the Hawke’s Bay Cricket Association stating that ho was unable to book by tho Gothic, which, had a full berthing list for Smith Africa, but that ho was a passenger by the Aberdeen liner Sophocles. He expected to reach New Zealand early in December.