The Bay of Plenty Times learns that Messrs L. and F. Simpson have completed twenty-five miles from the Ormond terminus of the Opotiki and Poverty Bay Road. The Wanganui Weekly Herald says :■ — The exceptional dryness of the season cannot be better illustrated than by stating that although it is almost the townspeople have had to purchase water, no quantity of rain having fallen for veiy many weeks. Billiards^—J. Roberts, sen., the ex-billiard champion of the world, has been beaten in an even game of 1,000 up, by L. Kilkenny, the champion of Yorkshire. At the finish the game stood :—Kilkenny, 1,000; Roberts, 790. During the game' Kilkenny scored breaks of 125 (20 spots), 106 (33 spots), 79, and several others of from 40 to 50. Roberts’s highest breaks were 60, 49, 42, and several of about 30.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 68, 9 July 1873, Page 3
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