JOHNSON-JEFFRIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10036, 9 July 1910, Page 5

JOHNSON-JEFFRIES.

JOHNSON IN CHICAGO. AN IMMENSE RECEPTION. Received July 8, 12.45 p.m. NEW YORK, July 7. The champion boxer Johnson was accorded an immense reception in Chicago. Crowds of negroes lustily cheered him. A long procession, including motor cars, accompanied' Johnson to his mother's house.

JOHNSON'S RECEPTION. THE PICTURES FORBIDDEN. Received July 8, 10.10 p.m. NEW YORK, July 8. Chicago welcomed Johnson, despite the police prohibition. Bands were forbidden except at Johnson's home, where a carpet of roses was laid from tbo kerb to the door. In Washington, San Francisco, Boston. Los Angelos, and many other cities, the authorities have forbidden the cinematograph displays of the fight, and other places are likely to follow Washington will not permit Johnson to appear at music halls. Mr Mcintosh, at a Press Club banquet in ban Francisco, announced that he had hnpea of arranging a skill contest between Johnson and Tommy Burns at the London Olym pia at Chrietmas. *lt would be for twenty rounds, with six ounce eloveri, and would be a test of ability, a*.d not endurance.

AGAINST MOVING PICTURE EXHIBITIONS.

MEETING OF METHODIST MINISTERS. SYDNEY,"JuIy 7. There is a strong|feeling in church circles against the exhibition of kinematograph pictures of the JohnsonJeffries fight. A meeting of Methodist ministers has decided to request the Federal Prime Minister, Mr Fisher, to prevent the introduction of the films into the Commonwealth. MATTER GOVERNED^BY'LEGISWHAT THE PREMIER SAYS. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH' July 8. Replying to a correspondent who teiegranhed to the Prime Minister urging that the Government should take steps to stop the exhibition of right pictures in Sir Joseph Ward telegraphed that the matter wae one entirely governed by leghMion, and it was not possible to decide wherther the pictures are such as should be prohibited until they had been produced. "I assure ynu, however, that any evasion of the law will be promptly dealt with," adds the Prime Minister.

MASTE&TrtN TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

The following is the return of the Masterton Technical School for thefirst term of 1910, aa presented at last night's meeting—Freehand, roll 6, average 4, free, 4; light shade, roll 4, average 3, free 0; machine construction, roll 9, average 7, free 1; building construction, roll 6, average 5, free 0; geometry, roll 9, average 6, free 2; architecture, roll 6, average 4, free 0; dressmaking, roll 12£, average 10, free 3; dressmaking, roll 9J, average 9, tree 2; dressmaking, roll 14, average 12, free 0; deasmaking, roll 10, average 9, free 4; dressmaking, roll 14J, average 12, free 7; dressmaking, roll 10, average 9, free 1; plumbing, roll 8, average 6, com-mer.-ial, roll 39, average 31, free 32: commercial, roil 2% average 20, free 13; commercial, roll 22J, average 17, free 16; commercial, roll l'\ average 8, free 7; signwriting, roil 9£, average 6, free 0; woolclassing, roll 18, average I' 7, woolclassing, roll 95, average 9, woolclassing, roll 3, averaae 3; English and Arithmetic, roll 41 \, average 32, frea4l; Civil Service, roll 101, average 8, free 4..