BILLIARDS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1269, 26 October 1911, Page 4

BILLIARDS.

An exhibition billiard match was played at the Junior Club at Aurliland on "■ Saturday pvcninji, between .T. W. Kond, the New Zealand professional chanipioa, and Mr. \V. 11. Madill, a local amateur. ■i, ]!oad, conceding Mr. Madill DSO points in 750, played an excellent frame, scoring 01 off his first; visit to I lie table, and making subsequent breaks of 215, G;i twice, and Ul, he ran out an easy winner, his - 1 "' average being 37.5 per cue. Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co., auctioneers, Ilnuulon Street, will tell (at noon, Wednesday. November 1) certain residential properly in Majorihnnks Street. „ Tlio Wellington (las Company Ltd, "-'• will hold a cash sale of Wright's pa; ranges ou Wednc.-d.iy, November 1. Further particulars appear elsewher» in this 1 i.«sue. ' The Paris newspapers record a feat ol endurance on the part of one Thorpe, described as a native of Bohemia, whe '* played the piano for thirty liours and lifl-ecn minutes without slopping. Th« former record was held by Mr. Waterbury, whose performance extended ovei twenty-eight and a half hours. The report slates thai Thorpe was fed and Riven stimulants during the entertainment. XI3OO is (ho highest recorded prico that lias ever been paid for a collio dog. The lowest raiiifolll for London was 16.93 to 1801