CRICKET.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13271, 23 November 1911, Page 2

CRICKET.

ENGLAND BEATS VICTORIA

[Press Association—Copyrigm.]

Melbourne, Nov 22. Victoria's second innings closed for

009 ■ Layer b Douglas ! C;irkeek l.b.w. b Douglas M.icrow not out) England thus won by 49 runs.

WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD

[United Press Association.]

Wellington, Nov. 22

Mr. R. Fletcher, chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, announced at a meeting of the Board to-night that it had raised a loan of £50,000 in Wellington at 4 per cent interest at par, with the right to take from £1,000 to £8,000 per month as required. The Board's financial position enabled reductions in port charges to be made as follows: Harbour improvement rate 2d per ton, inward wharfage on general goods 2d per ton, concessions with regard to manures and phosphates 8d per ton.