BILLIARDS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 635, 17 January 1914, Page 5

BILLIARDS.

REECE LEADING AGAIN. London, Friday. In the billiard match of 18,000 up, Reece, who received 2000, is now 14.963, including a break of 394. Gray's score stands at 14,320. Giving evidence before the Empire Trade Commission Mr Austin Wilson, of the Hall-Barnsley Railway Company, who recently toured Australia and New Zealand, advocated the establishment of a regular steamship service with the idea of developing new markets He recommended the payment of a moderate subsidy from the Overseas Dominions for at least a year until the service reached a selfpaying stage. Mr Ross Johnson, general manager of the Port of Bristol, spoke of the inadequacy of the present steamship service to Australi and New Zealand. He said that New Zealand and other oversea countries asked for better facilities for trading with the large area di'ectly served through Bristol. Three blue books contairing the minuses of the evidence taken by the eomm-'isiori in New Zealand and Australia have just been issued. Exactly 662 pages are devoted to the Commonwealth and 233 to New Zealand. The only two vacancies in the cricket team Sims is bringing to New Zealand have been offered to Park, of the Melbourne University and Craw • ford, of South Australia. The team includes Armstrong, Ransford, Laver McKenzie, Trumper, Noble, Waddy' Collins, and Dolling. The .team wli'l leave on January 28tb.