MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.
[Pbess Association. — Cofxbhjhi.]
(Received 9.40 a.m.)
LONDON, Sunday. The profits of the Olympic Games recently held in London wer© £6377. They will be devoted to sending British athletes to future Olympic contests. The Amateur Swimming Association, by 38 votes to 26, decided not to send a swimmer to Australia, the Association desiring to confine itself to tbe Olympic contests.
The football match Wales rersiw Australian League has been postponed on account of the weather.
At tennis Twinn beat Stone (Cambridge), B—6, B—6, 6—4. NEW YORK, Sunday. Mr Roosevelt, ex-President, starts on his African tour on 23rd inst., sailing from Naples.. He has already contributed a signed editorial to the American "Outlook." Obituary : The widow of Bishop Potter, of New York. It is estimated that the value of her estate is f R),DOO,000. Monday ''-:"■'■ Trumper, playing against Waverley at cricket, scored 260 rnns in, 210 mm " US ' WELLINGTON, Monday. As a result of the ballot m respect to the election of the secretaries for the Dunedin. and Wellington Branches of tHe- Australasian Federated Seamen s Union, Mr Belcher has been elected ■for the Dunedin Branch, and Mr Young for the Wellington Branch.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 8 March 1909, Page 3
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