INTER-CLUB BILLIARD COMPETITION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1909, Page 3

INTER-CLUB BILLIARD COMPETITION.

A record entry has been received for this year's Crystalate Cup competition, ten established clubs having nominated. The competition will commence in about a week's time, and the games will be allocated amongst competing clubs, as in ■previous years. The tournament has now been in vogue since 1904, and the cup (presented by the manufacturers of Crystalate billiard balls) bears the following names of previous winners :—1904,: — 1904, Mr. J. Key, representing Artillery Sports' Club; 1905, Mr. M. J. Donnelly, representing Wellington Cycling Club ; 1906, Mr. Geo. Grimstone, representing Civil Service Club ; 1907, Mr. Geo. Grimstone, representing Civil Service Club ; 1908, Mr. J. Hamilton, representing Wellington Cycling Club.

Mr. John Foster Fraser was welcomed by the Council of the Adelaide Royal Agricultural Society at their meeting last week. In the course of his reply, Mr. Fraser said the people in Great Britain were looking around the world to see what was being don© to build up the Empire. Their concern was not only that the Bi'itish. Empire should be strong in warlike equipment, but that it should be great as an industrial and agricultural empire. (Cheers.) England could easily be lost in Australia, as far as area was concerned, but its population was ten times> that of the Commonwealth. England was, perhaps, a little over full in that respect, and many energetic young men at home were fceting the strain of competition and were seeking lands abroad tor settlement. He had travelled in emigrant ships from Liverpool across the Atlantic, and had seen them filled, not with England's " wasters," but with many of her best young fellows. What better could those young fellows do than get out to Australia? (Cheers.) It w'a*» no good having a fine big country without people to develop it. By what means thest; stalwart men could be attracted to these shores was for Australia to decide. He acknowledged the kind hospitality that had been extended to him in Australia. While the country in many respects looked transatlantic, he -had been struck by the fact that the people were not an imitation, of Americans, but were really transplanted Britons, and if he could do anything by wagging his tongue and wielding lijs pen to help lo build up Australia, and make it a great part of the British Empire, he would be only too ready to do it. (Cheers.) Australia was pregnant with possibilities, but it wanted probabilities and actualities. He had been very proud to hear the young people in Adelaide speak of a country they had never seen as Home, and he would watch the progress of South Australia with much interest, because 'there he had leceived his first vavm welcome to the Commonwealth. (Cheers.)