CKICKET.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7174, 18 September 1886, Page 3

CKICKET.

THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS IN

ENGLAND.

COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT TO MURDOCH.

[BEUTER'S COPrBIOHT TELEGRAMS,] A ceicket match, tendered as a complimentary benefit to Murdoch, the Australia cricketer, was played at Lords on Thursday, between a selected English team and the Australian Eleven. The attendance was large, and the weatl.er splendid. The Home team went in first, and compiled 419 runs, Grace (74) being the chief scorer. The Australians made 296 runs, Jones (bowled 67) and Jarvis (bowled 54) being the most successful batsmen.

In their second innings the Englishmen made 196, Abel scoring 52. The Australians in their second innings lost tsvo wickets for 13 runs. As the match was only for two days, it resulted ia a draw.

FARMS IN INDIA.

The average holding in India is about 5 acrss in extent, tbe unit of measurement Vbigha) varying from one-third to fourfifths of an acre in different parts of the country. There is scarcely any farming on a larger scale, and the native princes let out all their land in these small plotg. The rent varies from ss. to 20s. an acre, according to the nature of the soil and the proximity of a market for farm produce. In Upper India the farmer grows wheat, cotton, or other crops, to meet this portion of his expenditure, and millet, barley and peas for the maintenance of his household, generally obtaining two crops in the yeur. Oa a holding of 5 acres, a man, with a pair of bollocks, will maintain a family of five persons, with the help of his wife and children above 10 years of age. Family men are the rule, and not the exception, and it may be added, that they are generally to some extent in debt. — Mark Lam Express.

Another Alpine accident is reported from the scene of Marquis Pallaviciui's recent fatal fall. Three gentlemen and t*o ladies on, July 26 attempted to proceed from Klom to Heiligenblut. They took no guides, nor any of the usual precautions. On reaching the Gaisrcuken, one of the ladies, Mdlle. Pauline von Sonklar, of Innspruck, slipped and fell over a rock four hundred feet deep, and was killed on the spot. The unfortunate lady, who was only twenty-six, was the daughter of the late Major-General von Sonklar, the renowned geographer of the Alps.

The London correspondent of the Irish T^mes says :— " The Btory goes that Mrs. Crawford received over a dozen offern of marriage dnring the hearing of the case, and that one of these was from a gentleman learned in the law and eminent ia its practice, who bad been captivated in court during the proceeding." Sir Charles, it seems, has decided to take hia critics at their word, and "to leave his country for his country's good." A yoang man, named Sydney .Teffcoat,' recovered £1200 against the Shire of Bogong (in the Ovens district Victoria), before the Chief Justice and a jury at Beechwortb, on account of a fearful accident which happened to him while driving a team of bullocks along a cutting in November, 1883. The evidence was that he met a baggy at an awkward turn in the road, and while endeavouring to get hia bullocks past round the corner, the dray got into a worn channel and swung round on him, and he was knocked down, the wheels going over both legs, so that he is now a cripple. The Shire asked the full Co art to grant a new trial, on the ground that there was no negligence on their side, and there was carelessness on the part of the plaintiff. The Court reserved its decision.

In the comedy of " The Great Divorce Case" the principal actor is, a briefless barrister, and he tells hia wife that he has done everything to invite briefs, even to the extent of walking about the streets in his gown and wig. This extravagant style of advertising himself ia exceptional, but the same thing may be witnessed in Sydney where gentlemen appear in the streets dressed as above described, and apparently in no hurry to get to their offices or the Court.

A domestic servant named Brazier, in service with a lady at Barham, England, attempted suicide by jumping down a well upwards of 40 feet deep. The girl sustained but Blight injury, and on rising to the surface of the water seized upon a bar, to which she clung until rescued about an hour afterwards. Medical assistance being called in, she was found to be insane.

The magnificent white brilliant which Messrs. Och Brothers, of Hatton-garden, London, submitted to the Queen, has in cuttiDg turned out a thoroughly good stone, weighing in its perfect shape 180 carats, of the fiueat water, free from flaws and imperfections. It is said that it surpatses in weight and quality all the lrstorical d»^ ioxkls on record. Some idea or! its valuo van be gatherad from the fact that a little piece sliced off the end to improve its shape, producing a brilliant of 19 carats, was at once sold for about £4000 to a merchant.

It is suggested that Mr. Stead's address to tho Chamber of Commerce at Christchurch should be read by theAKent-Generul to some body in London, and distributed in pamphlet form.

Mr. John A. Ewen (of the firm of Sargood, Son, and Ewen) arrived in Danedin on September 7, from London via Melbourne. Mr. Ewen opened tho business of the present firm in Dunedin some 25 years ago, during the palmy days of tho goldfields. Ho is to make a trip through tho colonies.

The lato Secretary of tho New Zealand Frozen Meat Company, Mr. Burt, left Auckland by the Hauroto on Tuesday en route for England, g

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AN INFANT PRODIGY. , They have dug out what appears to be a genuine infant prodigy in Sydney. The Mail says: — " Within this city has been resident for some years a little girl whose musical powers are phenomenal, whose tiny fingers fly over the keyboard with fairy like speed, and who plays not as : if showere giving the result of study or labour, but as though Bhe were playing with the pianoforte as an ordinary child plays with her favorite toy. Little Elsie Hall is now 9 years of age, and small for her age. There is nbthing.of th» r wondfrcbild about her manner. Tho talent iis , inherited from her mother, who for years was known and valued as a teacher of mas.ic in Queensland. The little one from her birth heard music constantly, and before she could walk picked out on the pianoforte musical phrasas. She played by instinct, and learning' the' notes has been acquired almost by accident. The child has been for some time under Harr Kretflchmann's car&, and beyond the extraordinary facility with , whiebf Bhe has triumphed over tb.e difficulties of piadoforte playing, 'a remarkable advance hjas been made since the C minor concerto of Beetbovon, has been studied,' and the child has not only learned the music accurately from memory, but has played it with eight instrumentalists associated in' tpe performance. Evidence of the mosc Satisfactory kind was afforded of tbJßatia gathering of misical connoisseurs assembled recently at the invitation of Harr Kratschmann in the hall at the German

Club, The amazement of the audience was as great as their pleasure. In little , Elsie there is nothing to show -that she is conscious of possessing extraordinary gifts She is a thorough child, not "overstrong physically, full of fun, and not disposed \o go through day drudgery. 0£ the theoryor science of music ehe knows very little," her parents having Wisely resisted any attempt^ at forcing her gifts or of overtaxing her strength by any intellectual pressure. There is soEfiething irresistibly amusing in seeing this little child seat herself at the piano and play the elaboratecudenza which Carl Keinecke has compoßed for the fif tbjeoncerto, her tiny ' hands unable to stretch an octave, and the octaves played by flying leaps at a marvellous, pace. While the fingers are busy .Elsie is by no means absorbed, The bright dark eyes scan the faces of the company, and the little head turns from side to side to mark all that is going on. Her gift is, however, much beyond that of running over the ' keys and' remembering music. Her ear }s wonderfully true, and she-has unmistakable creative power."