CRICKET.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7117, 15 July 1886, Page 2

CRICKET.

AUSTRALIANS v. YORKSHIRE. The cricket match was lesumed on Tuesday at Sheffield. The Homo team, with 42 runs, and no wickets down, continued their fiist innings, which closed for 158 runs. Being 117 behind tho Australians, the team followed on, and in tho second innings mado a better stand, their score, at tho close of tho day's play, being 231, with 7 wickots down.

At the Dunedin Harbour Board meeting on June Bth a communication was received from the German Consul, on behalf of the German Government-, asking for charges and port dues which would bo levied on steamers ot from 2500 to 3000 tons stopping in port from a week to ten days,' running in connection with the new German line. The information wjfl supplied. With a view to greatly reduce stock' and at the same timo enable the public to procure good furniture, carpets, pianos, &c, during the dull times, J. C. George will offer tho whole of his stock at a small advance on cost, at the old premise?, corner of Devon and Liardot-streets.-ADV. owhv4 to tho denso fog prevailing in. Auckland on the Bth July the tramway drivers, s.iys the Herald, wero obliged to keep constantly using their whistles to prevent collisions or accidents to foot p.issengeis. In several cases the drivers could not fcee from one siding to tho oilier, iin>l tho result was that tho cars met in tha middle necessitating ono or other to return to tho siding. In the couiso o£ a few remaiks on tha Bryeo-Rtisdon Libel case, the Saturday Red iio intro luces the following: — Now the Maoris are, as Mr. Disraeli wojld havo said, an interesting raca. In one respect, at ail event 1-',1 -', they aro among tho most enviable races of tho earth. For wl on the missionaries came to render the Boole of Common Prayer into tho Maori tongue, it was found impossible to translate literally tho Collect for the second Suuday in Advent. " Read, murk, learn," had all their Miori equivalents. But wUca tho translator came to "inwardly digest" he was baffled. There was no such word in the Maori language. No Maori had ever been made aware by painful experience that theiewasaoy such process as digestion. Happy are the people upon whom a know* ledgo of human physiology is not forced by le«e a^ioe-ibb agoute Uuu Dr, Cue ponloi,