FIGHTING OR FOOTBALL?

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 66, 14 September 1907, Page 5

FIGHTING OR FOOTBALL?

THE AUCKLAND TEAMS TOUR. [nit TEU.OBArn — riusss association.] AUCKLAND, This Dcy. At a committee meeting of the Auckland Rugby Union last night, Mr. Muiray, manager of tho touring team, made n, verbal report dealing will 1 the allegations of rough play by tho team in Christthurch and Dunodin. The cotnmitteo decided to go fully into tho matter on Wednesday when tho manager will present his statement* and. members of the team will be invited to give evidence. It is stated that the manager's report will bo a refutation o£ charges made by Southern papers. A MUCH-LITIGATED VESSEL. [BT lELKfiIIAriI.— FBES& ABBOOUTIOX.J DUKEDIN, 13th September. Application was m;ule to Mr. Justice Williams, to-day, in conn«vlion with tho Staphano ltazeto, for an order for Brodrick and Co., Lloyds agents and bottomry bond holder*-, to file accountp. His jlohour nmdp nn order in terms of the motion. He staid he considered upder iho circumstances accounts should be taken hers and not at Invercnrgill. A bumuions for payment of wafces nud outgoings w.io also considered. His Honour mado an order that the wiptaiii, second oflioar, and a *<6aman bo paid v/ages to 15Ui Augupt, Uje cnptnii) to Iw ■ontithd to maintenance from 15th August to data of payment. His Honour disallowed M:\ Hazeto"s claim for interpreting, and referred other mattars, nuch as th-a Consul'n account and tho account of Mr. WaterRtone> ohip's ng^nt, to tho registrar for enquiry and report. A further application for payment out of court of tho net amount realised on the oalo v.aa allowed to stand over till Wednesday.