Lord Salisbury is making a long stay The cricket season is rapidly drawing to with his family at Walmer Castle, the its close; and the result, so far as' the residence which goes with the Wardenship championship is concerned, been of the Cinque Ports. From its position placed beyond a doubt. Yorkshire has at the lower end of the long sea front of now played the whole of its twant Deal the Castle gets the benefit of the matches, and its score of thirteen points bracing air of the Downs, and the Premier cannot possibly be reached by Surrey even can hardly fail to gain the rest and relaxa-if the metropolitan county should win both its remaining matches. The interest in diplomatic tangles. In its seclusion Waltion needed in the prolonged tension of County Cricket is therefore practically at mer Castle is a little paradise, with its an end; but has certainly been one of tiny park, battlemented ivy-clad walls the most brilliant seasons on record. As from which peep out cannon long disused, for the Australians, it is now practically and for the historic memories din; to certain that although they have won only one out of the three test matches, they rooms rrhich were once tenanted by ite and Wellington, and must appeal wit will not sustain defeat at the hands of a double force to one who showed at Dover, single county eleven. when he assumed the honorary duties of his office, how thoroughly he could ap-
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