CHESS TOURNAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8020, 5 January 1906, Page 2

CHESS TOURNAMENT.

I Nil! Pit ESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, January 4, The position of the players in tliO chess tournament at the conclusion of the linal round is as follows Barnes won S lost 3; Mason won 8 lost 3 j James won 7J lost 3^; Davie» won 7 lost I; Miles won (11 lost 41 j (iriersou won (I lost 5 ; Edwards won 51 lost 51; Kuminer won-l lost 7| 1' rcciimn won 31 lost 71; Kelling won •II lost 71; liutlierford won 31 lost "i; Jowitt won 3 lost H. Barnes and Mason have to play o ff for (irst place.

There are, in round figures, 52,000,. 000 square miles of land on the globe, therefore., if the death and birth rates continue as they are, then, in 1,000 years, (here will be 330,000 persons to every square mile, which is thirty, seven times the present, density of (irenter London (Metropolitan Police lulrict). lliciv wiil Ju i nearly ns many people to each acre of land on the earth as there are to each mile in I'.nglaud and A\alcs at present—nameiy, 000. Each person on the earth will have just ll.', square yards to dwell on —a piece of ground 3 yards long and 3 yards wide. The Englishman would be little better off abroad than at home, and so emigration will not solve the problem. Prom the year 5,!)00 onwards the increase would exceed any conceivable figure. Two thousand years from now the popula. lion would have increased to 108,824, 1100,0111) millions, if i| goes on as it la doing at present. This would mean 3,217 million people to each square mile; 5,07:1,000 to each acre! 1,048 to each square yard; Uti to C&ch pqoaro foot.. So I hat each citizen of tlio World would have 1 \ inches of l&nd to livo upon.