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imprisonment. NOTHING TO LEARN. Hotel accommodation in New Zealand lias often been disparaged, but that which is available in Auckland has found a champion in Hr R. 1Michaels, who returned from a visit to Australia. Ho said that Auckland had nothing to learn in respect of providing accommodation as far as Sydney and Brisbane were concerned. There was a line Masonic Club in Sydney with accommodation for 000 members of the craft. The club was equipped with every modern appointment, even including a concert hall and theatre, lie said the building cost £250,000. and the fraternity in Brisbane was considering the erection of a similar social centre at a cost of £IIO,OOO. Apropos of hotels. Mr Leslie J. Thompson. the Auckland surgeon who recently returned from a world tour, m speaking of the manner in which things were done in America, stated the party 0 f British surgeons with whom lie was travelling were accommodated at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York, claimed to be the largest hotel in the world. The appointments were palatial. and there were 3000 bedrooms, every one of which has a bathroom attached;

LONDON, May 27. Cambridge bowlers defeated New Zealand bowlers by 122 to 110. winning New Zealand skips were:—A. Carl.. 29-1?; F. J. Hill, 26-19. The visitors found the green too heavy,