LAWN TENNIS,

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 3, 5 January 1910, Page 8

LAWN TENNIS.

\ ■-.. ~V.. [PKESS ASSOCIATION.] ■\ ■■■ r> ■:<"■?• -,:'^ITCKLAND, Jan. 5. I: In'th.© ladips* ehattipionship doubles Misses arid Uray beat Misses JNunijteley" si!nd BraHawait©, 6-2, 9-7.

Thej, £on. ,R. MeKenzae told a Christchurch reporter that there had >beenmade at the Seddonville State -coal mine recently one of thebest discovefies; of; hard coal ever made in New Zealand. A fresh seam had been •met with., It Vas an exceptionally /large one,land, it was believed, contained several million' tons of coal, j. Only one bare had been put into the 4 *eam A bu,t.if it was all like the sam- ■£>% it "would-yield great quantities of v a hrst-olass article. The new State ; Khne,, about three miles and a half ;fxom the Point. Elizabeth mine, was j mailing satisfactory progress. At present, ,an inclined tramway was in r, c™l™^ <^..'construction to the top of ;. u , the Papdroa Range, to help in the , ' working of the mine. It was hoped that Mr Sheckleton, the Australian 5 , 61"^ would be very successful in his y«fiorts to: produce briquettes. • He : Was experimenting in that direction, i^n4 had undertaken to make 500 tons at ascertain price. An exceedingly painful and' serious ■accident, the outcome of a gale which was blowing at the time, happened to an elderly lady named Mrs Webb, at Devpnport, Auckland, recently. AcScsft aili? d Jt y h^" daughter, Mrs Tutill^Mrs Webb ; -who is .78/ years of , age, was proceeding to- the morning service at the Presbyterian.l Church --,jwhen she ;was caught by a gust of ■fvind while1; in the act of opening her jiimbrolla, a^d thrown violently to the ground.' Her thigh was broken as a result of the fall. She was taken to mer.liome, «vh.ere.she received surgical ■;iattenlion, and is now progressing as as can be expected in the j