ARC-OVAL BILLIARDS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 8

ARC-OVAL BILLIARDS.

The advent of the arc-oval table has created much attention in billiard circles in England, and seems likely to prove an equally interesting factor in the Dolninioii. 'Messrs. Alcock' and Co., Wellington, have just completed the hist arc-oval table built in Australasia, and the public is to have an opportunity next ■week of witnessing a. series of exhibitions between two professionals,, Braggu and Smith, on tho table, which is to bo elected in tho old Wcllesley Club billiard room, Johnston-street. It has been said by an authority : "As whist is to bridge, so is the science of tho angles of the ellipse to the science of the oblong," and this is 'to a largo, extent true, for a great variety of angles are- to' bo obtained upon a arcoval table.

, Mr. Dawes, chairman of directors of the Now Zealand .Loan and Mercantile Company and of the New Zealand Shipping Company, ariived in Wellington to-day. Roderick 'M'Kenzie, an elderly man, was committed for trial by Mr. Riddell, S.M., this afternoon on a charge of in-d-3<3ent assiult on two little girls. Bail was allowed — accused in £50, and ,two sureties of £75 each. Th 3 mail, which left Wellington per tha Marama on 27th December and cu'inected at Sydney with the Naples mail, per R. 11.5. Onittih, arrived in London on the night of 3rd February — one day lato. The monthly meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Petone, was he-Id yesterday afternoon, when a paper on hygiene was read ; Mrs. Rowse presided. Tho lady visitor reported on. two cases, and power was j^iven to act as she thought wise. Satisfaction was expressed at the fact that some of the union's members had been placed on the executive of the No-License League at its annual meeting. The meeting was adjourned for .a fortnight to see if it was possible to send a delegate to the convention to be held at Auckland next month. "Can you tell me why no provision has been made by the Returniiig-Officer for the electors of Wadestown, to record their votes at tho Harbour Board election?" asks Mr. David M'Donald. "The nearest booth," adds the correspondent, "is in Sydney-street schoolroom. Surely this is very wrong, and practically "disenfranchises our district. It has been asserted that no suitable placo can bo found, that is> not so, there is an empty shop which could easily be obtained :f desired. I trust this matter will receive immediate attention." Tho Congregational Union has resolved to send telegraphic words of greeting to Row Wm. Saunders (Dunedin), who was elected president and is ill; to Mr. W. H. Lyon, of Auckland ; and to Rev. S. Baker, formerly of Palmerston North, who is holding his first large meeting at his church in Launcoston, Tasmania. New Zealand's training ship Amokura proceeded on her third cruise* this morning. This time tho gunboat visits northern waters, and she is now bound for Auckland. The itinerary reaches as far north as Mongonui, with calls at the various harbours en route. The Amokura vill afterwards como southwards to Napier, fitting in her call there with the. Napier Carnival. Another trip will then bo made to Auckland, and tho vessel will manoeuvre in the Hauraki Gulf. She is not expected back in Wellington until after Easter. Reye. J. Smith, of Colyton, and W. [ ,\. Kcay, of Alicotown, wero officially welcomed by the Congregational Union, to-day. Messra Gualter, Dykes and Co. advertise amongst their list of prepertiei for i «*le a hoiuo ia Kelburae.

In the case in re tho Marriage Act and Cunninghame, mentioned 1 in Chambers before his Honour Mr- Juctico Cooper yesterday, his Honour said that section 20 of the Marriage Act, 1904, did not give thn court any jurisdiction in the matter, and ho refused to make an order. Subsequently, however, Mr. Elliott, counsel for Cunninghame, said he had ascertained that the necessary amendment hnd been made to the section by the Statute Law Amendment Act of 1906. His Honour accordingly decided to hear evidence in thb case on Friday, 7th February. The stesmer Opawu, which sailed yesterday, has on board a quantity of bullion for London. ] The Waihi GoldMining Company has sent away ten boxes, weighing 10,5490z., and valued -it £39,800. Tha Komata Reefs GoldMining Company has shipped five boxes, i containing 6410 eof the value of £2ii43; also £409 worth of silver. At the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court at Lyttelton yesterday Robert) Isbell, alias Bell, alias Sneil, plias Brown, was remanded^ to appear nt Masterton on 6th February, on a charge of forging a cheque for £5. Messrs. Macdcnold, Wilson and Co. sell on Friday next, at 11 o'clock, at their rooms, a large quantity of unclaimed trunks, portmanteaux, umbrellas, etc., by order oi the Wellington and Mscawaiu Railway Co. t A boot sale is being huld .at Mann's, Vivian-street, komo details are published in an advertisement iv thi3 itsue.