LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14253, 2 January 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Though wrong may -win, its victory is brief. —Leonard. A donation of £7O from Mrs A. Storey for the G.F.S. Hostel was omitted from the list in our last issue. At the Whangarei Regatta yesterday a Hamilton crew won the Junior Fours, and secured second place in the Senior Fours and the Senior Douhle Sculls.A telegram from Whangarei states that the police have been advised that a Dalmatian, Jack Begorich, committed suicide by hanging at Waikiekie yesterday afternoon. . y The War Ofllce announces that apart from aviators, a few invalids, and the naval prisoners concerned in the Scapa Flow affair, practically all German prisoners, have left the United Kingdom. A fortnight ago G 720 Turks and 27 Germans were repatriated from Egypt, Salonika, and Mata. At the opening day's shooting of the Auckland Rifle Association, held yesterday, at th e Penrose Range, Rifleman E. J. Lentfer, of Frankton, was amongst the prize-takers in the Herald Cup match with 46. th e leading man scoring 47: In the Avondale Cup thoot W. P. Baird (43) and F. Sainsbury (41), of Frankton, each won 10s, the* winner totalling 46.' Thomas Crisp, a single man, and returned soldier, a native of England, was killed on the railway line between, Kakahi and Owhango, by the northbound expres's on New Year's Eve. Deceased owned a returned soldier's farm, and was making his way home from Kakahi, along the line, when he was overtaken suddenly by the express, and killed instantly. The body was bodly mutilated. The opening of the Auckland Racing Club's summer carnival at Ellerslie occupies pride of place in the pictorial section of the New Year's issue of the New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review, while the Trotting Club's Meeting at Alexandra Park is also the subject of an interesting series of special appeal to sporting devotees. The miscellaneous portion covers events of a wide range. The German war lords are receiving astonishing prices for their books. Hindenburg has sold the American rights of his work for four million marks at the present rate of exchange. Ludendorff has received two and a-half million marks for the English, colonial, and American rights, and another million for the rights in Germany and other European countries. Von Tirpitz has got 900,000 marks, and BethmannHollweg and Helfferich 250,000 marks apiece.

The Now Zealand Country Clubs' Association continues to show activity in regard to the movement for gaining an increase of totalisator permits. A draft of a Rill drawn up for the purpose, and which it is proposed to have submitted to the next sitting of Parliament, was considered yesterday by a number of delegates from racing, trotting, and hunt clubs. Further consideration will he given to the matter at a general meeting of members, which is to be held on Saturday next.

The first conference of the Australasian Football Council held since the war decided to change the name lo the Australian Football Council, as New Zealand has withdrawn from membership. It was resolved to alter the rules, enabling boundary empires to throw the ball in at their discretion not less than 10 yards and not more than 25 yards. The counsil negatived a proposal to allow a played to take the place of one injured on the field on the ground that it might open the way for abuses.

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