A TASMANIAN PRINCESS.
PRINCE MEIIKOFF'S WEDDING. A SOCIETY "SENSATION." (Received 11 a.m.) HOB ART, this day. fJFiss Pauline Curran, prominent in Hobart society, has become 'a princess by marriage in the local cathedral to Prince Maximilian Melikoff, a Russian aristocrat of the old Czarist #egime, who was deprived of his estates by the Bolsheviki. The event has caused a stir in society circles.— ( A. and N.Z. Cable.) SPORT OVERSEAS. RUGBY LEAGUE COUNCIL. NEW ZEALAND MATTERS. LONDON", January 21. The Rugby League Council, at a meeting nt Manchester, decided to ask the New Zealand League by cablegram to explain its reason for its additional note to the transfer agreement of players. It was decided that in future all matters relating to the laws of the frame must lie dealt with by the council. The New Zealand League wants permission to exercise its option in respect to the two years' qualification rule. — (Router:) PROFESSIONAL BOXING. OFFER TO JACK DEMFSEY. NEW YORK, January 21. Mr. Tom O'Rourke, boxing promoter, has telegraphed to Jack Dempsey, the world's heavy-weight champion, at Miami. Florida, offering him a purse of £100,000 to defend the title against«the negro Wills next summer.— (Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1926, Page 7
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