BOXING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 17 October 1910, Page 4

BOXING.

(Pee Press Association.) Christchurch, October 17. The Committee of the New Zealand Boxing Council at the last meeting had befoie it a letter-from .tho Millerton Association protesting-against the-.Te-e'ent .match between J. Mitchell and Rudd' being declared a match ror the professional heavyweight championship. II was explained on behalf or Mitchell that he had consented to giro I'.udd a match w lien the latter's a-iMngc'inent to meet J. M. Griffin had I.'lkm through; that Mitchell was out ct Vcriiing and that he had signed r.o' ai hclos. The Championship Committee decided to ask the Hawkc's Bay Association for a repoit on the matter. The Committee expressed warm appreciation of the Otago Association's action in disqualifying for life a person w hef' had committed an unprovoked assault. It was decided io ask Ellis .(Wellington) for an explanation of the circumstances in connection with Ins .selection to represent New Zealand I*l the Hntamw eight class at the Austia!as<„-> (ha-i-piop-hip. Ellis had been found ou the day ; *eroi e the meeting commenced to bo 3 Slot, .overweight.

Somewhat unusual was, the cause thaU recently led to the resignation ot a Palnatua Borough Councillor.' A meeting k of the Council was adjourned, reports a local newspaper, at 8.30 p.m. to'enable councillors to attend the Anglican mission being conducted there" b> tJic Rev. C. Heplier. The motion to adjourn was" only earned on division, and tiic cilloi l csigned hi*- seat as a protest against the business ol the borough be- i I ing hung up for the sake of any'mission. The opponents of the motion contended i that, had the mission been under the auspices of any other denomination than the Anglican, the resolution.would never have been brought forward. A letter has been received in Dunedin from the official delegates appointed for Australia and New Zealand in connection with the North of France Exhibition, to'be-held in Roubaix in .1911-. Writing from Adelaide, he stated that when in London be had bad an interview with Sir William Hall-Jones on the question of New Zealand being represented ■at the Exhibition, and the suggestion was most enthusiastically- re■eived. The Australian Government, he added, bad already voted .£ISOO towards the cost of an exhibit from Australia, and the hope was expressed that the New Zealand Government would see its way to do soinethir" r on sim-lnr lin<*s. The wisdom of New Zealand being represented at the based on the fact that a very large percentage of the Dominion's wool clip finds its way to France, and Roubaix is one of the woollen centres of that country.