BOWLING NEWS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1912, Page 8

BOWLING NEWS

In addition to the teams published in ? pother column, the following will play or Thorndon in a friendly match against Newfown on Saturday :— • Away : I, Clark, Hanlon, F. Johnson^ J. T. King ; kßarraud, H. Smith, Jameson. Coombes; Thomson, Alves. Nimmo, Stevenson; Greening, Marchant, Brownlee, Dimock. At home j Ixley, "Dumbell, Jackman. Boss ; Kane, Murdoch, Davy, Hogben j Hull, Pattie, Jones, D. Nathan; Arden. 'Collins, Reeves^ Macintosh. KELBURNE CLUB. Hamerton Crosses. — Hutchison. M'Coll, Knowles, Williamson (holders), 23, beat Meadowcroft, Baldwin, Gannaaway, H. T. Gray (challengers), 17. Dinnie Cup (champion singles).*-Rout-ley. 23, beat T. Gray, 18. The following will represent Kelburne on Saturday.— Senior pennant v. Thorn-don.—-At home : Manley, Dr. Begg, M'Coll, T. Oray (skip) j Ross, Baldwin, Johnston, Marquis (skip). Away : Doberty. Professor Kirk, Duguid, Routley (skip); Widdop, Hamerton, Horton, Home) 1 (skip). Edwin Feathers v. ' Thorndon, at Kelburne ; Hutchison. Dodds, Williamson, Knowles (skip). Owing to the state of the wicket, tho junior championship cricket match, St. Mark*/) v._ Central, will be played at Kelburno instead of the Basin Reserve. Mr. George Nathan, in conjunction with Dalgety and Co., offered Mr. Joseph's Upper Hutt property at public auction to-day, and, as the reserve of £3000 wa« not reached, it was passed in, and ift now for private sale at thie figure. Mr. A. Paape. secretary of the Sports Protection League, is at pment on a visit to Masterton 1 . A branch of the league will shortly be formed in that town, probably at the beginning of the year. It is reported by a gentleman who ia» recently been in close touch with settlers in the North Island, that holders of Crown leases have gladly welcomed the amendment of the Land Act, enabling them to acquire til© freehold of their "■ holdings, At one up-country settlement, within a week after the passing of the Act four applications were made by l.i.p. tenants for the purchase of the freehold, nnd one of the four has already engaged a surveyor to subdivide his holding (when he has the freehold), and to re-sell to the public, The delegates who attended the conference of the "Reform Party, held at Wellington some months ago, presented j the Hon. W, P. Maesey yesterday with an enlarged photograph of the defegateo, with himself in th§ cen- - t*e, a* & memento vi Ihe