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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 7

Johnson, tho Warwickshire tennis professional, in a tennis match against "Mr. G. G. Kersham at the Manchester Tennis and Racket Court, appeared carrying an ordinary cricket bat, while his onponent had tho usual tennis racket.' Tlio ball as it came over the not was met skilfully in the middle of the bat by Johnson. There were sweeping overhead strokes that met the ball and returned it as surely as though Johnson 'had been holding a racket of twice tho width. Johnson plays a good club game at cricket ftsil ho is a challenger for tho world's professional tennis championship. Tho racket won by 8 games to 5.

"San Francisco is no place just now for tho man with .£SO or .£100," remarked Mr. Foster Taylor, a passenger on R.M.S. Marama, to an Auckland "fc.tar" reporter. "All the money at the moment," ho explained, "is being mode iu veal estate, which has grown to figures far beyond Ihe reach of the averago small capitalist. Those who got in early a few years ago have made tremendous profits, but only multi-millionaires have a chance now, and there is little real trade done outside of real estate. A clerk," he continued, "can earn (!fl dollars a week, but it costs him '15 to 48 dollars out of that to. live. Reckon up what is left after he has had a little enjoyment out of tlio balnnco, and you will see that ho could do bettor (u many pkcea outside San.