Draughts News.
We learn from the Australasian that steps are •ib nit being taken by the Melbourne Draughts Club to consider tli<' ad'visibility of having a-n intercolonial draughts tonrnament'in connection with the Centennial Exhibition next. year. A good story comes from Kiverton. While the H«d LwUlip '"" was on a visit t-o this little town, J'H.viiif,' all comers, one of his opponents was a well Known and rausutdar hali-caste, who had left off telling trees so that he might have a few games with tno | champion. H« thought he was getting on very ucll, having managed to get two or three kings, when to his amazement his game suddenly fell to pieces like a pack of cards. "Dash ifc! "he exclaimed, "I ujsh I pould get the old chap to play m f a game of cribbnge, and 1 would soon let him 6ee "hat I could do." XOTICK. lhc report of the banquet given to Mr Wyllie appears on page 10.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1874, 21 October 1887, Page 29
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