permitted to me to make use of the following explanatory note: "The
coming of the All England team was naturally a glorious event in a
province only fourteen years old. The Mayor and Councillors had 'a
car of state'--otherwise a brake--'with postilions in the English
style.' Cobb and Co. supplied a six-horse coach for the English
eleven, the yellow paint upon which suggested the 'glittering chariot
of pure gold.' So they drove in triumph from the station and through
the town. Tinley for England and Tennant for Canterbury were the
heroes of the match. At the Wednesday dinner referred to they
exchanged compliments and cricket balls across the table. This early
esteem for cricket may be explained by a remark made by the All
England captain, that 'on no cricket ground in any colony had he met
so many public school men, especially men from old Rugby, as at
Canterbury.'"

[To the Editor, the Press, February 15th, 1864.]

Sir--The following lines, which profess to have been written by a
friend of mine at three o'clock in the morning after the dinner of
Wednesday last, have been presented to myself with a request that I
should forward them to you. I would suggest to the writer of them
the following quotation from "Love's Labour's Lost."

I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
S.B.

"You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent; let me
supervise the canzonet. Here are only numbers ratified; but for the
elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret . . . Imitari