CRICKET.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 15, 10 September 1912, Page 5

CRICKET.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(United Press Association.) Londesborcugh.—First Innings. (Received 11.30 a.m.) London, September !). Spooner, b Faulkner 23 Rhodes, b Pegler 1 Mead, not out ', ... 23 Denton, c Mitchell, b Faulkner ... 9 Douglas, lbw Faulkner 0 Ranjitsinhji, not out 3 Total for four wickets ... 63 South England.—First Innings. Vine, b Matthews 107 Kidd, lbw Mattiiews G 3 Hayes, c Jennings, b Matthews ... 8 Chaplin, c Macartney, b Mat-

thews K> Hitch, c Miyne, b Matthews ... 27 Tufnel, not out 4 Sundries 41 Total 420 Bowling analysis,—Maclaren 1 for 78, Hazlitt 0 for 70, Matthews 7 for 133 Minnett 0 for 28, Macartney 0

for 40, Kelleway 2 for 30. Vine made a splendid defence and d'd good driving. He made fourteen off one of Minneti's overs. In a chanceless innings he hit one fiver and fourteen 4's. Kidd, after being bowled by a no-ball from Kelleway, was missed twice before scoring.

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.

(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, September 9. At a mooting of ttie Tost, and Telegraph staff to-night, the Public Service Bill was considered, and it was decided to make an emphatic protest againfet the proposal to bring the lost ,nd Telegraph Department under the provisions of the Bill, on the grounds that the service as a whole is satisfied with the present classification, which, if properly administered, would eliminate political patronage and departmental favouritism, and that the nature of the work and the hours of duty m this department are entirely foreign •o any other department of the Civil Service. The meeting urged that evidence bo taken by a committee of tne House of Representatives of branches ~f the Post and Telegraph Officers As s'ociation. it is contended that the powers conferred on the Commissioner m the matter of promotion are not well enough defined, and that the pro vision for one appeal board represema live for the. whole of the deparimen. practically means the disfranchise ment of one branch of the service.