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CRICKET.
The death of Lord Darnley's uncle, Mr.
E. V. Bligh, at the advanced age of nearly
80, has removed one of the most pictur-
esque figures that cricket ever knew. He
was most keenly interested when, in 1882
his nephew, then Mr. Ivo Bligh, brought
to Australia one of the strongest teams
that have ever left England. A writer in
the "Westminster Gazette" recalls the
fact that it was immediately after one of
the ''tests" of that tour that a band of
Australian ladies—headed by the present
Countess of Darnley (then Miss Florence
Morphy, of Beechworth), presented the
English captain with a tiny silver urn,
containing what they termed "the ashes
of Australian cricket."
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