CRICKET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4738, 11 December 1886, Page 3

CRICKET.

Sydney, to-day

The return cricket match between Shaw and Lillywhite's team and Eleven of New tfouth Wales commenced to-day. Though the weather was fine the attendance was only moderato, and the wicket was heavy owing to the recent rains. The home team"winning the tosa elected to bat, but only sscceeded in compiling 117 runs when the last wicket fell. The visitora then went in, and when stumps were drawn had made 20 for tho loss of two wickets. .

France seems to be in a bad; way, shakey in politics, her population staf ionary, frightfully disturbed by violent natural p judicea and with a vendetta on her bands, she seems drifting into the position of the ishmalite of Europe— her hand againßt every man. A cont^mpo ary thus discourses on one phase of the agitat on there — " Throughout France there is a determined opposition to the embloyment of foreign laborers. The city authorities at Paris have actually forbidden the contactors for public works to hire any foreignera. Elsewhere the workmen have taken the matter into their own hands, and endeavour to influence employers with th<eats. These practical expressions of protection id^as seem to be formulated with a pu' posed disregard of the fact th.it in nearly every 1 irge city of Italy, in Vienna, andin Moscow a J ot Petersburg there are thousands of Fren h mechanics Tin 'ate earthquake in New South Wales covered a wide extent of country. The in -Yemen t originated somewhere in the n -iahbourhood <>f Lake Georg •, and it vxte cled to Wrtg(,'a Wagga and Jervis Bay in the south, Orange in the north, and Picton in the east. The shc-cku were als^ somewhat severe, and they lasted for a consi ierable time. At one p ace it h said their duration was fully i.wo minutes. They were most violent at Yas? 1 , Gutidagai, and Goulburn, At Juuee and CJooiua the earthquake was accompanied

by a peculiar storm. It is a long time B ince the colony experienced an earth,,mke th.it was capable of cracking ceilings .1 >d bringing crockery down from the ■■ii Ivea. The last happened at Gundagai in/uween fi'tecn and twenty years ago. 1. caused the surface of the ground to niuvo in an nndu'atory manner, and it thi-iw an end wall out of one of tho churches cue of the perpendicular. That disturbance, however, was very limited in its area, and Hie building referred to was the only one damaged. It is Worth a Trial.—" I was troubled for many years with kidney complaint, gravel, &c., my blood became thin, I was dull and inactive, could hardly crawl about, and was an old worn-out man all over, and could get nothing to help me until I got American Co.'s Hop Bitters, and now my blood and kidneys are all right, and now I am as active as a man of thirty, although I am seventy-two, and I have no dnubt it will do as well for others r>f my ri",e. It is worth the trial " — (Father ) Notice.