CRICKET AND ATHLETICS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4773, 26 January 1887, Page 3

CRICKET AND ATHLETICS.

Sydney, to-day. The Intercolonial cricket match was resumed yesterday, the New South Wales team resuming their innings. They were all got out for 80, of which Garrett made 28. The visitors in their second innings made 68 runs, thus leaving the home team 50 to get to win the match. They went in again, and when stumps were drawn for the day they had lost two wickets for 19 runs. The match waa resumed this morning. A race between Hutchins, the English runner, and Malone, 250 yards, took place yesterday. The former led all the way and won easily. Time 25] seconds. [la case of Malone winning the matches with Hutchins, he would have been pitted against Meyers, the champion of the world. Movers was trying to arrange another match with George, who is also in •Sydney, but perhaps he will also meet Hutchins now. Malone's match was for £400.] A match between the Cricket Club and a team combined from Banks and Law will be played on Saturday afternoon. The players will be picked from the following: — Club : Messrs Arundel, Ballantyne, Booth, Bull, Evans, Innes, Johnstone (capt.), E. Lewis, Staite, Valpy, O. J. Veale, Witty, and Wyllie. Banks: Messrs Barnard, Brown, Bourn, Louden, Sage, Morgan, Smith, and N. C. Veale. Law : Messrs Lysnar, Nolan, Pavitt, Rees (3). That long-headed and thoughtful men are getting into tho theatrical profession is shown by the following notice, which is nailed on the star dressing-room door of a theatre not far from Chicago :— " In case of fire do not forget to catch the leading lady by the arm, and not her hair, to «aye her The hair belongs to the properties of the theatre, and is covered by insurance. The actress is not. " The total trade of the Straits Settlements amounts to £40,000,000 per annum — three times ihe trade of New Zealand. Australians are the heaviest tea drinkers, with New Zealanders next, even the latter consuming one-half more tea per head than the Britishers, who rank third. The national expenditure of France now exceeds £160,000,000, while her debt exceeds 1,000,000,000. The total number <>f persons condemned to imprisonment for lito for participation in the recent Spanish revolution is 230.