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are to be given the preference, and it will be in teresting to sou what raigarch will tell us in thia direction. At a ronghi gunes, 1 shell name the air most likely counties as followSurrey, Lanashire, Yakabira, Notte. Kent and Glon centebite. This selection would leave out Mid. dlosor, Steak, Ex, Somersetshire, Derby shire, Warwickshire Hampshire, and Tolsostor. chiro, auf I am by no meang sertaiu that thọn will be content to look an, and possibly provide players, without having s voles in the affair,

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usefulness as bowlryklesey is another he always looks like making re- TU66 is more, he generally gets them. He fans of the little and goed oor," and would not dis grace a pisked eleven Rhodes, too, bas jumped right into the front rank, and its slow bowler wern nonded he would probably got the position, It is one, however, lo has a lot of this in front of him. Sierar could not be passat over, sad I regard an English esp for him as cortalų. Langoshiro kovu several other good men com ing along in addition to Triflealoy, and Ion ate believe that when next tko honours hava to be distributed thero will bo a few old fami-

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rent letter punt the provision of bozing | Hennisan'a Comissnjour, 4 votes, loves for the schofs a, perbugs a few words of Alr, Panch'e; Animal Tand-drawn and reference to the defeat of the dome will not written by T. Rest be considered ont of pics in this volumo. Bal's An Aules of Astronomy..... 30,00 The gontiran responsible for the bold more ....,, -13 Starry Realms pointed out the growing tendency of boys and youth to rwort to pietots and knives to tettle their quarrels, instead of relying upon. Nature's weapods. This bowover, had no weight with the opponents of boxing whe thought its very wicked thing Judod that we should fight at all. Just so just so. And what a very happy world it would be if all the swords wore couvertel into plough stores, nud all the spears into pruning hooke! How mornly the shipbuilders, engineers, repemakers and gan makers would welcome the dawn of univer peace. Ts too serious a subject, I know, to bo treated with levity. The white-robed Angel of Peace brings niczo blusirgs in her train thau can easily be osthunted, but, peace cannot be poranently sopored in times like these by farsing the chez to the smiter or by: lying." the dust to bó kioked and trampled on. No; the saying that the best way to preserve pence is to be prepared for war is ns true today ever it was, and whữa wè sau bil-afford to des- fish the braggart we as Britishers, must be prepared to stand to put guns in tune of useis And when the well-meaning “unco" guid gentlemen protosted that ther might not fo conatonance fighting. I hambly submit that they begged the quetion, for there is all the difference in the world beton teaching & boy the ridimentary principles of sulf defende m

This, abably, will be the cry of thous who are asked to find players, shop their Antea about, und genumlly to make way for the test -games, and to my way of thinking it, anemisa

pity that what the new regime was bring. ilitated a Billa mero consideration van Lok | given to the whole of the counties, The sobem has the apparues of being -digested Indeed, our might be pardoned for concluding that the MCG, having been quiescent for an loug, was disparately sutions to make amends by rushing the proposals through are the spirit of reform had taken flight. This new move, too, strucks onwhat of tut pid, con servatism which refused either to recognise the ability or the sapienficas of couutias like Esses or Somerset ar Darbyshire nxtil public opinion proved ten strang to be longer disregarded, Often pooagh yours very truly has to admit of a fondues for things old-fashioned old lange, old gardens, give me more charm when bettering around on a cycle than anything eke agais-but I hope I am reaonable enough to that manners ohange with the times, and that what was the correst thing for our grandfathers need not necessarily be the thing for our boys and girls. Thiops may be a little at the Koir Hordia or Tom Maun wail in the heading I love ventured to give this paragraph, but it convers its meaning well as anything that muggested itself. Taxa tion without representation is morely another way of pointing out that eight oselnded coun, ties may be taxed to the exfcüt of providing certain plagues, but they cannot have any voice is the arrangement. At present it is not pro. posed, securingly, te luterfere with any of the existing arrangements for providing en English team to visit Aastxulia, But we must not expect too much all at ones, and if auder the new method some few trifling grievances are reassed, wo moy hope that as the new board of managemoutrasourcing him to contes street brawls, to the grows in years sad experience, this voies of the eight excludert counties will not be as one cry. ing anbarded in the wilderness. What I am wendering about is whether the test matches will remain fixtures for a few favoured cricket grounds or whather the M.C.O. minguates will, in their wisdom, see fit to make these lucrative and attractive matches movable frosts. I Manchester and the Oval ba patronised in 1899, why should not She field and Nottingham, 19CJAMI TË THE FORE, Bay, get a turn in 1902 P

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discomature of kinself. Still, toxing can be traght in our yamasiuus, and it tas gentle

on whic desired the School Beard of Mitchem to set an example in the schools are really so. thuistic open the subject, we may hour that sadiciont funds are forthcoming to equip a gymnasium thoroughly for his hanefit of tho ponth of this celebrated Surrey villegor should it be township ?..

Although most of my spads, bas run out a faw lines, muet osrtainly be devoted to the magnificent leap of Newburn in Ireland a few days ago. Those who saw him jump að Stam- ford Bridge is the resent oborpinchina mar

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