The latter team was indebted more particularly to the bowling talent it had at command rather than to batting strength. There were about eight bowlers in the team, a lad named Dickinson being their "star" trundler. In each case the masters have been most enthusiastic in their endeavour to encourage the lads, and the success attained must be gratifying to them.
Chivalry on the high seas
An interesting story was told to a Daily Times reporter by Mr J. McAlevy, chief steward on the A and A Line of the steamer City of Hankow which was in port recently. Mr McAlevy, who was taken prisoner by Captain von Muller, of the raider Emden, when he was serving in a similar capacity on the Clan Matheson in September 1914, said that just previous to the time the Clan Matheson was sunk, the German cruiser had captured two Italian, one Greek and six British steamers.
The Italian steamers were released on account of Italy's neutrality at that time, but the Greek steamer Pontoporrua was seized as she was carrying contraband.
Five of the British steamers were sunk by the Emden but the Kabinga was saved, as the captain had his wife on board, and Captain Muller would not sink the ship as there was a lady on the vessel.
He said to her: "This ship is my property, to do what I like with, and I now present her to you as a gift, to be henceforth your own private property.
As far as the former owners are concerned, the ship is at the bottom of the sea." The sequel to the incident was when Captain Muller was a prisoner in England in 1918, when the wife of the Kabinga’s captain claimed the ship as her own private property, presented to her by the German captain. The Bucknall Line, which owned the vessel, contested the claim, and the case was taken to the Admiralty Court. Captain Muller was called as a witness, and upon his substantiating the lady’s claim the Kabinga was awarded to her. The former owners subsequently bought it from her for £50,000. It is interesting to note that on his capture Captain von Muller had his sword returned to him by the British, in recognition of his chivalry. He is believed to be the only German officer who was thus honoured in the late war.
Ettrick apple harvest prodigious
Mr James Cockburn, manager of the Treliske Orchard, Ettrick, the property of the Late Mr W.J. Tonkin, and his staff are very busy harvesting their large crop of apples.
Some 12,000 cases are expected to be picked, making a total of 15,000 cases of fruit for the season of 1922.
Giant walnuts at Cromwell
The Cromwell Argus was showing last week several exceptionally large walnuts from a six-year-old tree. Three of the covered nuts taken from the tree turned the scale at 1 pound 7 ounces.
The measurements were: diameter 3 inches; length 3¼in.— ODT, 13.4.1922
