DRAUGHTS ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 4

DRAUGHTS ITEMS.

The Secretary of the Dunedin Chess and Draughts Club has received intimation from Mr D. Reese, of Christchurch, that the players of Canterbury have decided not to go to Ounedin at Easter to play the annual interprovincial match, arid suggesting that the match be postponed until the exhibition season. Mr Reeee sayp :— ' At present most of our good players could not get away, and as I believe it. is the intention of your people to hold a big tourney about the end of the year there will be a double attraction tor our players." On December 22nd Ihe oldest draughts editor in the word, Mr James P. Sweet, died at his residence in East New York, aged 70 years. Since the death of his talented predecessor, Ira J. D. Sweet, he has ably conducted the draughts column in the *' New York Clipper." Mr Swe t was a recognised poet, a great writer of fiction under the 110 m de plume of l< Tad," and a superior ccholar as well as a good checker editor. His " Coney Isle" is especially retrarkable.

Hokitiko^Freeraasons have decided "That the formation of a Grand Lodge for New Zealand at the present time is inopportune and unnecessary, and calculated to destroy rather than advance the best interests of Freemasonry throughout. the co!6ny."