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Beamish, of Taranaki, who was to have donned the jersey for the City Club this season, will not, as originally intended, make the trip to Auckland. This will mean that City will be minus the services of this crack five-eighths, whose loss will be felt by supporters of the red and blacks. * * * * Smythe, the Grafton forward, was an absentee from the Grafton pack on Saturday, this player being on a brief visit to Wellington. ♦ ♦ V « George Tyler did not play for the City team in their match against Newton on Saturday. Tyler will not be able to play for his Club in every match, owing to his inability to get away from his business duties on certain days. • • to ■ < The captains of the senior teams engaged in the Auckland Rugby Union’s competition are as follows: — Ponsonby (G. Nicholson), City (R. Magee), Grafton (O. Wolfgramm), Marist Bros. (R. Macdonald), Parnell (A. Twiname), University (F. Wilson), and Newton (Heighten). * * * * At a meeting of the Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Union last week, a letter was received from the Victoria College Club, asking that they should be allowed to play Auckland University in Wellington on June 3. It was decided that the match could not be played on June 3, and to suggest June 5 for the contest. There are few place's in the Dominion where football is so enthusiastically pursued as at Petone. One of the most stringent unwritten laws in Petone Club football is that if a player is anxious to keep his place—no matter in what grade—he has to put in two nights a week at the gymnasium, and what is the result? Ever since Petone has been competing in the championship they have been a team

“When Tilly’s Uncle Flirted,’ provided plenty of merriment, Tilly’s übiquity at undesirable times causing her giddy relative’s downfall in more wa.ys than one. Pretty glimpses of “The Island of St. Kilda ’ were shown, also a pathetic drama, “When the wind blows,” which introduced a collie called Jean, that was the means of bringing happiness to ai home. The music supplied by Mr E. J. Burke’s orchestra was except’onally enjoyable. Another change of pictures takes place this evening.