CRICKET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7131, 13 November 1894, Page 3

CRICKET.

~— ■ — """ "^ ' ' ADELAIDE, Nov. i 2 — The Englishmen in their second irmii.ys lost one wicket for Hi runs, Ward making 1 1. Nov. 13. — In iht- fin r innings of the South Australian team l\:el '.ook five wickets for 59, Humphries two U •>. 62, Briggs two for 74. In Paris you can m;o hundreds of women 'cyclists in the Hah « t .d in the tttreets, and as for the divided skirt and the prim knickerbocker they are taken for granted, and no one tbipks twice about them,

An electric lamp has been invented for cycles, and is now beinj? made, the electricity for which is generated by friction on the wheel of the machine. The friction, it is said, is inappreciable, and the first turn of the wheel produces light. The whole outfit weighs under 3lb. It is an American idea. A thrilling incident occurred on the Waituna bridge, near FeildiDg, last week. Mr J. W. Ransom was driving a young horse, which became unmanageable, and jumped over the bridge. Strangely enough ore of its legs caught in the rail, and Mr Ransom keeping a firm hold of the reins, the animal was suspended over the bed of the creek, about I.sft below. Assistance was quickly at hand and ihe horse lowered down with very little damage. A test case of a kind to gladden the hearts of the lawyers has been brought before the Krenah law courts by the members of a Freemason's Lodge, who deposited, on June 3 last, a funeral crown on the statue of Joan of Arc in the Rue de Rivoli, Paris. The crown was taken away by a young man named Cochin, who is being prosecuted, therefore, for wilful damage to a public monument. M. Cochin bus secured the services of Maitre Eug6ne Godefroy, of the Paris Bar, who seems to be a remarkable adept at casuistry. According to M. Godefroy, a crown placed on a monument ceases to be the property of the person placing it there, since it has been voluntarily given up without what is called in commerce consideration received. Neither is it the property of the city, or of the State, since the legal formalities required in th«case of a deed of gift to a public body have not been complied with. It is no wonder that the judge whose fate it is to have to solvo this knotty point has taken time to consider his decision. M. Cochin's act was prompted apparently by a desire to avenge the destruction of a similar crown placed on the same monument by the society styled the Royalist Youth of Franco.