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l'"rom a Melbourne paper I learn that the New Zealand team, as selected by Mr Ollivier, included Deinanf, G*b.itb, and Downe.

i£aitangata bent Balclulha en tho latter's ground by 34 runs ou the first innings, scoring 95 (Aitchieson 20, Forshill 19, Fitzgerald 15, Gilcfcrist 18) to Balclutha's 61 (Valentine uot out I*, Sutherland 12, Bray 11, Bishop 10). Or Thomson captured three of the Clutha Wckeiß for 3 ruv 8. After tho match the visitors entertained to a dinner, at which the ■Clutha team were conspicuous by their absence, ■only three turning up The Canterbury Association have adopted the following resolution : — "That no afternoon adjournment for refreshments be by the Canterbury Cricket Association in any matches played under its auspices." A match between Bookmakers and EUyes's Circus was played last Thursday on the C iledo* niau ground, and resulted in a wiufortho BojJcmakers by 18 runs on the first innings. C>v.ie, WilsoD, aud Noel scored double figuies for the winners, while Duvalli aud Toohey w re most 6uc"cessful for the circus. Pabon and Hayes divided the bowling honours.

John Selby, a once famous Nottingham cricketer, who visited New Zealand svuh Lillywhite's firat eleven, has got into trouble. Ou the 2nd ulb., at Nottingham Guildhall, Selby and an accomplice named Hibbtrb were committed for trial for stealing two watches, three gold ring*, a Q( i other article!? from an innkeeper. The goods were valued at £15, and it was shown that the men had endeavoured to sell fiem to ■another innkeeper, who eventually advanced £2 on them. Bclby will bo remembered as a Hiapablo bat ai>d lield and a fine sprint ruuut r. The Lum-deu coitketcrs have beaten B.iifouc ■by au iouiugs and Yl ruus, the scores bJug : Lumaden, 131 (Thorn i son k9, Small not out 28, Malley 15, Rogers 15, Woll> tead 15; ; Balfour 33 (Reid 14) and 27. The firss match of the season betwecu tlio Gure and Waikaia clubs was won by lh<» foiniir by 11 runs. Scores .- Gore 74 (A. G. BIJI nod oub 48) aud 60 (G bion 12, Parlous 11) ; "Waikaia 40 and 93 (Hufcihinson 40, Miteui 12, Thomsou 11). Iv the fiwb iumnga of Waikaia Fisher book seven wickets for 10 runs.

Referring bo the visit of an Englihb.^ team t ) Australia next summer, tho Leader says : " Tho actual personnel of the team will, of course, to some exteut depend upon Ihe form 6hown in Euglaud during the approaching cricket season of 1894, but should rocenb form be maintained it is probable thab tho majority of bhe following payers will be included :—: — Stoddatt himself, wfco is tho world's recoidholder for individuil score (485), aud ona of the most brillianb batsmen and uu^b genial cricketers that the world has seen ; lVatrot, tho famous Somersetshire amateur, a great batsman, who, with his captain (Hewett), made bhe highesb score on record for a first wickebb (324) playing for his counby against Yorkshire. HcweCC wiU, unfortunately, be probably unable to come, as he is reading for the bar, bun the Cambridge University ciptain, Jackson, is a cricketer who will delight Australian epectatore — one of the dashing order, a grand butsman, and good fast bowler. Smith, of Yorkshire, is another of the same sort, who is likely t-j be included, a good punishing bat and fast bowler, and the team will also include bwo of the three best amateur wicketkeepers in England — viz , Macgregor, of Middlesex, Gay, of Cambridge Univer^it y, and Kemble, of Lancashire. It is expected that Richardson or Lockwood, or both, will be selected for fast bowling, and tluir presence would undoubtedly draw crowds carious to see the slaughter* ra of Ausbralia's champions. Eibher Briggs .or Peel (probably fche former) may be chof-en as a left-hanJed bowler, and should Walter Humphreys bj included the team will bo materially strengthened. This is the famous lob bowler of Sustex, who has proved so successful againsb Austr»li.in batsmen in Englaud. . . . Ward, the Lutca9hire professional, who played so well against the lasb Australian eleven, will probably be included, also Alec o? J. T. H^.arne or pc - haps both, and ib is just possible that the agile Rsnjitsinhji, the Parsee student at Cambridge University, may," ba invited to join the combination. Ib is expected thab the team will arrive in Adelaide in time to play tho colony of South Australia on the Prince of Wales's birthday, and they will probably sail for Englaud again about the lasb week in March, 1835. Ib is the intention of the promoters to play five test matches between the English team aud All Australia, two in Melbourne, two in Sydney, and one (the lasb match of the tour) in Adelaide. Matches againeb Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia will of course also be included in the programme, and the Englishmen will vifc.it Queensland and Tasmania." (Whab has New Zealand done that ib ehou'd be omitted?) A. W. Jacobs, who pUyed for Auckland in the tour of tho colony ab th. j New Year, his now settled in Dunedin and should prove a useful acquisibion for the rest of the season to the Carisbrook Club, which he has joined.

Ibis not my intention to niik-* any excuses for tLe discomfiture of Iho New Z -aland team by the visitors from New South Wale?. After careful observation of the bowliug of Austin and Miller iv the O-tfgo match I caunot conceive it po&sible to iiud any f-xcuso for Ihe miserable display the New Zealand team made in their second iuninge, while, iudeid, there was nothing to boast about in the ficst innings display. %he wail for a Fisher or a Killcnder is somewhat amusing, but I am bound to say that the prevailing feiling in Dunediu ii neb ono of sympathy with Mr Ollivier, who could have had Fisher if he had so chosen. '• Dark Blue, " of the Weekly Press, hinted last week that it was in consequence of the protest of the Otago Association against the selection of tho*feam before the New South Wales Eleven played in Dunedin that Mr Ollivier cho=e Palmer in place of Downes instead of waiting — as a more reasonable man would have done — until after the Otago malch before he filled the vacancy. If thia be the case it argues an unfitness for the position of selector which I should not h-tve looked for in Mr Ollivier.

A corrtFpoudenb of the Otago Daily Times, advancing the plea that Obago should have had another representative in the New Zealand team — his c;ntention being that Fisher should Lave been picked — pointed out that duiing the la«t Bjx years Olago has d-feaLed Canterbury four times and been defeated fcwire. To this "D.urkßluo" replies: "I wou'td point ou'j to this corre spondent that Cautcrbui y won lour of the fix matches immediately prrcc''ii>R tho six he navntP, and of the eight before thatc Otigo could claim but one win." There could nwt possibly bs a more original argument fc'oan that in favour of Canterbury's claims to six men in the New Zealand team in 1891.

The Tapanui cricketers vrere defeated by Waikaia, on the latter's ground, on Saturday by an innings and 30 runs. Tapanui scored 47 (Gosaage 15, Nichols 11 ) and 31 (TopUam 16)

to Waikaia's 108 (Hutchinson 21, H. Hardman not out 16, A. Hardman 15, Mitchell 15, E. Hamer 13). Iv the second innings of Tapanui, W. Christie took eight wickets for 11 runs, and in the first he scored four wickets for 27. Evidently the IVpauui players are nob much good off their own ground.

The Lybtelton Times devotes three leaderettes in last Monday's issue to the miserable exhibition made by Mr OUivier's New Zealand team in the match against the New South Welshman. Ib says inter alia : — "The utberness of the collapse of the New Zealanders needs no words to paint ifc. The figures of tho scoreeheeb tell it all too well. It wa3 what M Zola might have termed a deb&cle. The ordinary colonial onlooker, unacqu tinted with foreign l-mguag'B, would probably call it a 'rot.' Every third per.'on on the ground wondered whab the explanation could be, bub thero was no explanation possible. The wildest theories were, of course, started. They varied from an assurance that the New Sauth Welshmen had bden playing dark in all their previous matches to a declaration that one-third of the New Zea)aud men had been given out wrongly by the umpire". Dismissing all these for what they arc worth — which is exactly nothing— we fall back upon the stern aud unfortunate fact that tha New Zealaud batsmen seemed totally unable to play Austin's bowling. Why thia should bo wo caunot profess to say. That Ausbin bowled really well was obvious to any careful onlooker who kuows anything aboub cricket. But good slo.v bovling is nob utterly unknown in New Zealaud. Shaw, Southerton, Briggs, Peato, aud Kendall have all been seen bowling on New Z laland crickeb fields. New Zealand batsmen have faced these famous trundlew. We do not hesitate to say that none of them e ver did greater execution in the colony on a ficst-class wicket than did the comparatively unknown Austin on Friday and Saturday."

Tho second annual match |between jockeys and -ail'rainera and tho Bookmikers, played ou the C-.ledor.ian grouud, resulted in a win for tho former by 4 ruus.

Tho h«.t number of the "Cricket Field" cmtairman, iutc-rview with C. E Horrier, tho old Sumy bowler, from which the following is rxtraclscd : "Iv Watson's benefit match in '85, Barnes ran two very phort runs, after makii g a hib to cover pomt, where I was fielding. E*ch timo tbafc I threw tlw ball in it bib him mi tha bi'L-k. When it was our turn to bat W. W. Riad uiaile a whorl run tv B-mina, wh >, ii throwing in, hit him htrdou the back. W. W. objected, but B imrs lcp'.ieil, 'Mr 'Ani< r cbook.jd at me, so I don't soo why I shouldn't chook at you.' W W. was, of course, amused, but hinted that he had better 'chook' at me another time. This gam 1 ? wa-3 remarkable iv many ways, ond waa an idi-nl match for a benefit. Tha whole three days were fiae, and whrni sfci* mp^ were drawn at 7 o'clock on the third day Beaumont and I were iu — the very lasb wickefc. We should havo been beaten in another five minutes prob.ibly." Mr Homer goes ou to say : " During the time tha*i I played for Surrey we ottcn won matches by the merest shave, and several times I had to go in bo make the few remaining runs. It was trying, but, on the whole, I was lucky. Onco we were plajing Yorkshire at the Ovil, and when I went in it was a case of staying 10 minutes or biiug badly beaten. Harrison was bowling. At that time he was always very fast, pirticularly when occasion required, as in this instance. Maurice Read was in at the other end, and, as there was nob much chance of getting rid of him, the energies of tho Yorkshire ie»m were expended on me. I had to foco Harrison Tho first ball was one of his fastest yorkers, which hit me on the foot. The last bull of the over went for a leg-byo, and I breathe! more freely, for I did not so much miLd th.c bowler ab the other cud. Bub to my disguhb they put on Harrison again — tho rules allowed such a thing then. I groaned, but managed to k^ep uo my wickeb until time, though I gave a chauco nt the wicket, which was missed. It was always a joke aboub me at the Oval that when I wont in the horse was nb ouco put to the roller. It was ftven said that on my appearance, the field, it they hid a chance of catching au early train, would begin to unfasteu their bootlaces."