BILLIARDS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 22 October 1913, Page 10

BILLIARDS.

' PROFESSIONAL TOURNAMENT. Last evening the first of the semifinnl round of tho Alcoclc professional ■- tournament- commenced, when Forrest met and defeated Leggatt by 0 points. The game was evenly contested, neither i s player making any break of note. Tho i, final scores wereForresi, 500; Legi. gatt, 494. To-night Hickey will play r M'Calhtm, the winner qualifying for honours with Forrest in the final. The '• final,will bo played to-morrow night, the ;■' gamo' being 750 points, and an early start is provided for, play to commence 1 at 7 o'clock. It is rumoured (says the Sydney "Sunday Times") that early next year ' the Union Steam Ship Company's Royal Mai! steamer Niagara will make a, trip i direct tn England, via tho Panama [' Canal. It is understood that when she returns from lier next Canadian trip this lingo 13,000-ton liner will be disi patched on lier maiden voyage to London. . . . Tlig Niagara leaves Sydney for Vancouver to-day (October 20), and I, will be back aaain in Sydney port eight weeks later. While in these waters she will make three trips to Auckland in connection with tho Exhibition, thus making lier sailing date for London about the first or second week in January next. Tn vie v.- of the surplus of .£20,000 shown \ in the municipal accounts, tho 2000 citi7.ens f>f K!ini*etll)cnj, Germany, were not !• only absolved of nil taxation for the rar, l " but were each presented with .C2O from the town treasury.