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CRICKET.

FIRST ELEVEN Y. THE REMAINDER. The Brunswick (Ga) Advertiser tells Play was resumed in this, the open. of a strange fresk of nature ou the poring match of the season, on Saturday son of a negra child, about 6 or 7

about noon, Forbus and Travers defend.

yours

old, having one side of its face as puring the wickets for the cleven against whito ns any of the Caucasian race- so purely so as to bo freckled. The out-this attacks of Tomés (underland) and liuos of the mark," for so.the mother Wilson, fast round arm. The ground call it, begin about midway, on the fore- bead and runs down between the eyes and along the bridge of the nose, right across the lips to the chin, or nourly so, and then ronding on the right cheek passing right across the eye, of the forehead. The balance of the renches the starting point in the contro

face is copper.colorel. The child's mother states that it was born so.

credit-four clean bowled. The full- score is as under :-

THE REMAINDER.' FIRST INNINGS.

SECOND INNINGS.

Liont. Lane, R.A., run out....0 Caldwell...... Mr. A. Wilson, R.N., b Tra

Lious. . . Mayne, run out Mr. J. J. Bell Irving, c sub,

b) Travers

Mr. A. B. Tomkins, Dun-

man........... Mr. W. o St. Croix, bw,

Friend

Travoran

I

not ont

Newington, b

2

.........

Friend.........15

3

b Dunman

3

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accident to have been off the perpen- dicular, and therefore unsafe. It has been said that attention had been directed more than once to this circumstance, without obtaining any practical results. These, matters should be looked into. If a searching enquiry is to be held, let the ser- geants of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers be examined as to whether it is actually true that the unsafe state of the chimney had been the theme of general remark at the mess- table for some considerable time. past. These reports have been cure rent since the morning of the acci- dent. They should either be proved or disproved. There can surely be no great trouble in ascertaining whether these rumours are truc or absolutely without foundation. It is the duty of the Coroner to have a most thorough and searching inves- itigation made into everything likely pon Sergeants of Police. Those officers who had been let off once or twice pre-

to throw any light on the subject.

will have a two-fold duty, namely, keep-viously, was immediately afterwards ing an eye upon the loafers who have cloverly taken at square log by Ritchie recently increased in the Colony to | LOCAL AND GENERAL.

off Wilson. Dauman and Charley gave such an extent as to be a great buisance

a great deal of trouble, necessitating We are informed by the Superintent by calling at private houses aud dent that the P. & O. S.,N. Company's big found drunk and bogging in the several changes of bowling, and entirely steamer Kashgar, with the next English look after the Indian and Chinese long stay at the wickets. St. Croix, public thoroughfares; and likewise altering the aspect of the game by their mail, loft Singapore for Hongkong on

Tomkins, Radcliff Hay, Ritchie, Tones, Friday, the 7th instant, at 8 am,

hands with the ball wore or less suc- Wilson, and Bell Irving all tried their cessfully, the number of catches no accepted being rather surprising even disorderly as to have become a stand-catch in the slipsby Wilson disposed of for a first match. Eventually a smart muisanco to the neighbourhood.

was in excellent condition, and played. A. Tames, eluaa, much faster than on the previous day. Mr. A. G. Stokes, by Fricud I Forbes gave a chance in the first over, off thounder-grounders, which was not. C. Holiday, e and b accepted, and Travers had an equally Both batsmen immediately showed lucky escape in Tomius's second over.

their appreciation of this good fortune by commencing to hit with great vi-

Dunmann Mr. J. Fincham, Travere 7 e Foss, b Friend...

Caldwell Mr. J. R. Anton, e Dunman,

1 Prignal

The hull and boilers of the broken up river steamer Kinshan were put up to public auction on Saturday by Mr. I. N. Mody. The price realisod, $3,825, must be considered fairly sa

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HONGKONG, 10TH OCTOBER, 1881.

It gives us great satisfaction to know

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A Chinaman's vegetable cart travel- led all round Morpeth the other day with the words "Small Pox" written in large lettors in chalk upon it. John, wondered what mado business dull, while yet the people smiled.

"No

saves."

By a Government Notification in the Gazette we observe that the Special Committee on the Tramways Bill will be prepared to hear evidence on the subject of the Bill at the Council Chamber, Government Offices, at 2.30 this afternoon,

The British ship is lostan which arrived here on September 10th dis- masted, living encountered a fearful hurricano in lat. 20.16 N. long, 132.17 E. on August 20th, was towed over to Kowloon Docks this morning, to under. go the necessary repairs.

that the course we recommended in our Saturday's leader, with reference to the inquest on the body of the Chinese boy killed by the falling in of the roof of a building in Murray. Barracks, and the inquiry held as to the cause of the accident, has been adopted by the Coroner. When the jury met on Saturday afternoon Mr. "Wodehouse informed them that he the Peace will be held at the Police A Special Sessions of the Justices of considered it advisable to have an Magistratos Office on Tuesday, No- independent examination of the dévember 1st, at 11 am. for the purposo bris at the scene of the accident by of considering applications for spirit the Inspector of Buildings, and he licenses for the year commencing on had consequently applied to the Decoinber 1st. Applications for fiden- Government to depute that officer ses must be lodged at the Magistrates to make the necessary examina- Office at least ten days before the Ses- tion during the ensuing week. He sions in the form prescribed by Onli- therefore had decided to adjournance. Printed forms of application the enquiry until Saturday next, the may be obtained at the Mgistratos 15th instant, at which date he hoped office between the hours of ton aud they would be able to come to some

four daily satisfactory conclusion as to the cause of the accident.

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After we had publicly directed at tention to what appeared to us to be most unsatisfactory evidence for a jury to form an opinion, or return a verdict, on a matter of such grave importance, the steps taken by the oner to satisfy public opinion and clear up an apparent mystery, could not well have been avoided and will give general satisfaction. It is not a usual thing for a chimney stack to fall in without some cause, and as in this unfortunate instance the accident cost a human life, it would simply have been a piece of useless formality to have recorded a verdict on the indefinite evidence before the court. It will be infinitely batter for all partics interested that the fullest information as to the cause, or probable cause of the accident, which led to the death of the Chinese boy, be forthcoming. Without the independent statement of a profes- sional man, practically acquainted wiith such matters, and who has minutely examined the building and the debris, it would have been im- possible to have fairly absolved the department of Royal Engineers from all responsibility. It has been pub- licly stated that the chimney stack was noticed sometime before the

One of those unfortunate accidents which occasionally take place during the progress of the "noble game," has re- contly happened to a cricketer in Japan, sometimea residentin this Colony:---An unfortunate accident happened during the cricket match yesterday. Mossrs. Hughes and Skipworth ran to make a catch, and came into collision, striking their heads together with great violence, Both gentlemen were stunned, but shortly afterwards Mr. Hughes had quite recovered. Mr. Skipworth, how- over, did not regain consciousness all last night, and is apparently no better this morning. His lip, too, was sove- rely cut, and had to be sewn up.' Hiogs News, Supt. 29.

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Sir John Smale once said in this

Colony, referring to punctuation, that he thought the commas and semi- colons might with advantage be left out of matter, or, if they must appear, be placed all together at the foot of a column. Here are two instances which do not quite bear out the late Chief Justice's dictum:-On a tombstone at Ballarat, Victoria, is the following inscription: John Adolphe Adams, accidentally shot ay a mark of affection by his brother." But this isn't half so bad as what appears in an adver- tisement in the Geelong evening paper: "Wanted a man that can milk n housemaid and a cook.” We consider that this joke alone is worth the price of the paper.

We hear that His Excellency the r, Forbes especially playing a cor- Administrator has sangtioned the plac-score rouched 49 a well pitched up ball rect and dashing innings. When the ing on special day duty of two Euro-

ironstables to see they carry out their instractions in regard to the rogu lation of the traffic in that portion of the Colony where the jinrickshas

aro 80 nuorous and their drivers 80

from Tomes beat Forbes, and Travers

Dunman, who had scored 30 in any A court-martial recently assembled thing but his beststyle, and without to try Mr. W. H. Patterson, Staff As another rum being added Charloy was sistant-surgeon, R.N., of H.M.S. Comus clean bowled by Ritchie for a lucky in- and formerly of H.M.S. Iron Duke, who nings of 40, made up of one four, four was chargo by Capt. East, by order of threes, one two and singles. Charley Vice-Admiral G. Ö. Willes, C.B with

was missed about four times, one very conduct unbecoming an officer and gen- easy chance after he had made a tleman in drinking intoxicating liquors single, Four for 122. Newington to such an extent as to produce delirium and Friend failed to come off, Rad- tremens. The accused denied the charge, cliffe smartly catching the "Marine" and after a lengthoned investigation, at short leg off Irving, while the "Sap which was continued the following day,per" was bowled off his pad by the Court found that the chargo had not boon fully proven, but that the prisoner had been gailty of an injudi- cious use of intoxicating liquors when in a wonk state of health. The prisoner would forfeit two years soniority, and be dismissal from his ship."-Japan Mail.

The wonderful dividends of the Hongkong and China Gas Company have been held up as a model of what can be accomplished in this particular line of sporulation and adduced as conclusive evidence that the days of the coal illuminant are far from being numbered. These comments have been indiced from the fact that we have seen no worse lighted town in the Bast than Hongkong; and we would be glad to receive an authentic official assertion as to the quality of the light supplied to the public as regards "ean- die standard." Taking the irregular configuration of our roads into con- sideration, the steep gradients, and other facts in connection with the same,, we consider that the proper lighting of the public thoroughfares is something more. than a more sine qua non in the in. terests of public safety.

With reference to the case of the Danish steynship Activ, quarantined in Manila, alluded to in our issue of the 6th inst. the following particulars have boon placel at our disposal :-The te legrain received here on the night of the 5th asking if the statement that the vessel was from a Japanese port, and requesting an immediate reply up- pears to have béou improperly worded. The Spanish Consal, on receiving in- formation that a portion of the steamer's cargo was Japanese vogetable wax, Lolegraphed to the Manila authorities who ascertained that this was true, and consequently placed the vessel in qua- rantine for a fortnight. Armed with

Ritchie, just saving his duck. Clarke and Blandy made a good stand, the bowling at this time being well on the wicket. Blandy hit Ritchie away to leg for six, which ought only to have been a single the ball passing through the fielder's legs, and this caused that bowler's retirement in favour of Tomes off whose second delivery Clarke, who had played a patient innings for five singles, was well caught by the bowler. Seven for 146. Caldwell was next in and out, Bell Irving scattering his stumps before he had scored. Foss and Blandy made matters lively for the fielders, the former driving Irving vory prettily to long on for three, but he immediately afterwards lost the com- pany of his partner who was rather foolishly run out. Blandy's 14 was made up of oue six, one three, one two and singles. Darby was last man in, and he had no opportunity of scoring, as he was given run out in attempting a rather near thing, the total score amounting to 154.

The Remainder commenced their second innings with Fraser-Smith and Lane, Darby and Danman troudling for the eleven. Lauo got a single off Darby's first ball, and his partner made a brace of twos off his fourth and fifth. Although the bowlers were both well on the wicket, no separation could be effected, and as Darby was rather severely handled by both bats.. men he was shunted in favour of Cald. well. At 24 Fraser-Stith was smartly taken at mid-on by Clarke off Dunman after scoring 10, four twos aud a brace. of singles. Stuart, who followed, play- ed in very good form, scoring a dozen, all singles, before succumbing to. Dan mau, Young in the meantime having boon very smartly stumped by Foss off the same bowler. Three for 40. Lane and Stokes were next associated, but made no stand, Caldwell being credit-

a written statemont from the shippersed with both their wickets, clean bowl- that the wax had boon in Hongkong ad, and Ritchie fell a victim to Dunman for upwards of a mouth before ship-without troubling the scorers. Mayne mont, the charterers of the steainer ap- and Fincham give some trouble, the plied to the Consul, submitting that un- former hitting hard for his well earned der the circumstances the vessel night 15 before being caught by Newington be released at once from quarantine. off, Friod. Fincham also fell a victim The official, however, declined to accede to the insidious slows, a smart catch at to the request, which would involve the the wicket by Foss sending him back. acceptance of heavy responsibilities, Wilson played a not-out innings of 22 and considered that the charterers in good style, his free hitting being wore solely to blame for having accep- much adrirod, and when the stumps ted Japanose gooda, after the publica-wore drawn oleven wickets were down tion of definite regulations by the Ma- for 101 runs, Dunman having distin- nila Government, excluding such goods guished himself most in the bowling from the ordinary privilages of the port. { department, with six wickets to his

Lieut. Ratcliff, run out...... 4 Mr. Wolseley, b Darby....10 Chapt. Davidson, b Travers 6 Mr. R. K. Loigh, Caldwell,

b Travors......... ........ 2 Mir, H. M. Bevis, ci

c Dunman, b Travers......

Mr. H. J. II. Tripp, b Tra-

vors

Mr. S. S. Lowe, e Dunman, b Travers........ Mr. R. Fraser-Smith, not

out.

&

Mr. J. Hughes. c Charley, b

Darby

0 Mr. A. J. Easton, Darby 1 Mr. H. A. Ritchie, st. Foss,

b Travers**** Captain Westoby, o Foss, t

Travora

Mr. J. Hay, b Darby

Mr.

c Clarke, b Dun.

man

... b Dunian

C. A. Stuart, absent.... Lieut. Young about

1b1, w11

5

..10

b Donman...........12

st Foss, b Dunman,21 1b, w 3...........

Total... 104

FIRST ELEVEN. Mr. II. de O. Forbes, b Tomes Mr. A. K. Travera, e Ritchie, b Wilson... 22 Mr. W. Dunman, c Wilson, b Irving...... 30 Liont. J. F. Charley, R.I.F., & Ritchie Lient. 1. Newington, R.M.L.I., e Rad-

cliffe, b Irving.

Licut. I. B. Friend, R.B., b Ritchie...... Mr. I. F. N. Clarke, O,S.D., cand bTomes Mr. A. R. Blauly, run out..

Mr. G. A. Caldwell, b Irving......... Mr. I. Fogs, not out...... Mr. W. H. F. Dathy-run out...............

b1, bl, w, b3

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[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Macao, Oct. 8th, With reference to the imperfections of the Lyceum system of education mentioned in the last paragraph of my previous com- munication on this subject, I will now much belanded system absorbs time, endeavour to prove my assertion that this valuable time, which could be more profit-

ably employed."

That time is valuable is an axiom re- cognised and admitted all the world over. We live in an age of precision, and are accustomed to consider time as an essential factor in all our undertakings. An educa- time, or takes too little, is either super- tional instituition that absorbs too much fluous or deficient, and therefore as imper- feet in its organisation as a railway engine that takes double the calculated time to reach its goal or completes the traject too quickly. The question of time when applied to instruction presents itself under two aspectsist. As much time should what is necessary, regardless of the super- be employed as is exactly sufficient to learn fluous. 2nd. There are branches of study that should be gone into in due time, viz., when the mind of the student has attained some degree of maturity, when his memory is more rotentive, when he has acquired habits of reflection, observation, and inves tigation.

traction adopted by the national Lyceums Now, if we examine the course of ins-

in Portugal, we find that it wastes time by the redundancy of its programme of education. The aim of the Lyceum is to give a preparatory course of studies. But the preparation is so long in itself and candidate for higher studies must lose a complicated in such a manner, that the considerable time in mastering all its details.

The statistical returns of the examinations show that 50 per cent. of students fail year after year, having to recommence their course of studies anew, thus increasing the length of time. The six years' tuition can hardly be considered as the real limit of preparatory studies; ten years would be nearer to the mark in reality, considering that the race is too arduous, and the runners are too young. Moreover, in N preparatory course, I should think that a thorough know- ledge of Greek and Latin, of natural science and philosophy, is superfluous. It. is like begging the question. If you mean walks of literature and selence, why take to prepare young boys for the higher up their time and give them the trouble of going through a complete course when they are not able to appreciate either, and when they ought to be only preparing That the Lyceum themselves for both? system is in this wise inconsistent, will be apparent from a glance at the detailed programme of literature and sciences. Greek is studied for three years. In the first year, besides grammar, there are Esop's Fables and Lucian's Dialogues for translation and analyses; in the second year, grammar and Greek composition Xenophon and Herodotus. In the 3rd mosthenes. Achylus, and Sophocles. If year, Prosody, Greek Poetry, Homer, Do- this is not a complete course of Greek, I wonder how much more could be known! But how is the student to have time to make himself such a scholar in the dond