MEETING WITH BURNS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 5

MEETING WITH BURNS.

FIXTURE IN LONDON HOPED FOR. (Rec. July 8, 11.15 p.m.) New York, July 8. Mr. M'lntosh, at a Press Club banquet in San Francisco, announced that ho hopes to arrange a skill contest between Johnson and Bums at Olympia, London, at Christmas.

It would be a match of twenty rounds with six-ounce gloves to test the contestants' ability and not their endurance. GLASGOW AND THE PICTURES.(Rec. July 8, 11.15 p.m.) , London, July 8. The Glasgow Corporation is discussing -the question of forbidding the exhibition of the Johnson-Jeffries fight pictures.

ONTARIO FORBIDS PICTURES. (Rec. July 9, 1 a.m.) Ottawa, July S. The Government of Ontario has absolutely forbidden the exhibition of pic-, tures of the Reno fight. . KINEMATOCRAPH PICTURES. STATEMENT BY PIUME MINISTER. (By/Telegraph—Press' Association.» Christcliurch, July 8. Replying to a correspondent who telegraphed to the Prime Minister urging that the Government should tako steps to stop the exhibition of fight pictures in New Zealand, Sir Joseph Ward telegraphed that' the matter was one entirely governed by .legislation, and it was <not possible to decide whether, the pictures are. such, as. ;should - bo . prohibited until thdy-'hSd' bceii prbdiieed'. l .; "I assure you, however, .lhat any evasion of tho law will bo promptly dealt" with," adds the Prime Minister.