CRICKET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7137, 20 November 1894, Page 3

CRICKET

Melbourne, Nov. 19. — The weather was perfect to-day for the cricket match. Victoria continued their first innings, which closed for 307, leaving them 109 behind the i Englishmen in the first essay. The additional scores are :— Harry 70, R. McLeod 36, A. Trott 25, Black ham (not out) 29, sundries 12, total 307. Briggs took 5 wickets for 97, Peel 3 for 27, Richardson 1 for 92, Humphries 1 for 71. In their second innings the English cricketers have lost four wickets for 191 runs, Ward 4, McLaren 25, Brown 11, Brock well 20, Stoddart (not out) 7N, Peel (not out) 51, extras 2. The Gladstone family, all of whom have done well out of their connection with British politics, continue to be sturdy beggars, says a contemporary. The Rev. Stephen Gladstone, writing to the Chester Chrouicle, states that Mr Gladstone's library at Hawarden, though it contains 25,0U0 books, is of course most incomplete at present. The next trip will be to add the books now wanting to make the subjects more complete, to catalogue the library, and to form a trust. About 6,000 volumes are to be immediately added, and then every year a certain number will be added. In plain English this means that Mr Gladstone, already the possessor of 25,000 books, is not willing to purchase any others he may need. An exhibition of great interest has been opened at the Vienna Museum. It consists of a collection of £10,000 Egyptian papyrus documents, which were discovered ut El Fayum a few years ago. The collection is unique, and the documents, which were written in 11 different languages, have all been deciphered and arranged scientifically. They cover a period of 2500 years, and furnish remarkable evidence as to the culture and public and private life of the ancient Egyptians and other nations. They are also said to contain evidence that printing from type was known to the Egyptians as far back as the tenth century v.c. Other documents show that a flourishing trade in the manufacture of paper from linen rags existed* six centuries before the process was known iv Europe. An interesting feature in the collection is a number of contracts, tax-records, wills, novels, and tailors' bills, dating from 1200 b.c. I Some curiosity has; doubtless been felt as to why the Japaui <■. airer effecting the conquest of Corea, should bo so anxious to push on to Moukdcn, thj capital of Manchooria. The reason is no' •> ith'cult to find. Moukden is the ancestral home of the reigning dynasty of China, :nd contains the tombs of many of the illustrious ancestors of the Chinese Emperor. The occupation of Moukden by the threat Manchoo chief Noorachu in the early par. of the 17th century was the first import-uit step towards the conquest of Chiim. ami from that city, which became the -tji;- ! of the Mauchuo kingdom, the ad van <r,i Pekiu was subsequently made by N<«>i ; hr. s successor. The Japanese are evidently acute enough to know that the capture <>f tn. ; (Sacred City would produce an impression throughout the Chinese Empire far be vend what its actual importance woulc' jus'/fy, and that even the mere threat to tak.3 Moukden would be more likely than anything else to compel the Chinese to come to tetrn*.

Mr Gladstone's views on the liquor question are thus given in a letter to the Bishop of Chester :—" For many yeare I have been strongly of opinion that the principle of selling liquors for the public profit only offered the sole chance of escape from the present miserable and almost contemptible predicament, which is a disgrace to the country. I am friendly to local option, but it* can be no more than a partial and occasional remedy. The mere limitation of numbers — the idol of Parliament for the last 20 years— is, if pretending to the honor of a remedy, little better than an imposture. The growth of the system of tied houses continually aggravates the prevailing mischief. Of detail Ido not speak, but in principle you are working on the only lines either promising or tenable. I am glad to see that Mr Chamberlain is active in your cause." The steamer Delta recently picked up at sea the large 6choouer St. Clair and towed her into Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Delta, it seems, fouud the St. Clare off Scatterio with all her sails set and not a soul on board. The vessel, too, was iv thorough condition, so that those on board the Delta could not understand why she had been abandoned. On September M\ the owners of the steamer instructed a firm of solicitors at Halifax to " libel " the vessel for 10,000 dollars, that is to say that a bond would have to be given for that amount before the I vessel would be allowed to leave pending | the settlement of salvage claims. The St. | Cluir was only built in IS9O at Plymouth, so that she is comparatively a new vessel. Just received. — A small consignment of photos from the scene of the wreck of the aB. Wairarapa. Large and small photos. At Mrs A. M. Browne's.— Advt. The foundation of success in life 16 good health, easily attainable by wearing Hennessy's boots. Ladies' glace evening shoes (halt-heels), 3s 6d ; ladies' tan Oxford walking shoes (toe caps), Os 6d ; ladies' doublo strap strong walking shoes, 4s (id ; ladies' extra high-leg tan lace boots, 8s b'd, Hcnnessy's for dependable boots ! — Advt.