TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10423, 14 September 1911, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

By Telegraph—Press Association. MINERAL OIL COUNTRY. GEffiJSTCHUROH, Last ~gtot. The dhfairmian of .the Poerua Gold-' m/Lning Company states tlilat the Company's application for 9500 aones. of ocli mineral lease next to the Kotukm Company's' property has .been granted. .The. Sydney Fry Company's managing director reports ft ; hlait the area secured) is the best in the field. THE NELSON SEAT. NELSON", Last Night. Mr John Graham, M.P., announces that he will not seek re-election in November. Mr Grahlam is one of the senior miamibers of the House, having salt continuously for Nelson sEnoe 1893. iMr George Macmaihon, a welilknoiwin farmter, will be a candidate a atraighit out Government siupporter. Mr Macmahon is a prominent: Bettifer, identiiied; witSh the lboai bodies of-' tine district, holding, among other positions, the' chiainnamsihip of the Hasribow Roand. and Ghiaritable, Aid Board. He is also chairman of director® of theNtelison MneexingPoniptany. CANTERBURY CRICKET ASSOCIATION. CHiRISTOHUROH, Last Night. ' TThe annual meeting of the Gamterbury: Crickeit Association decidled to recommend thie New Zealand Cricket Oouncil to defer negotiations with til© TaiSimianian authorities for a visit from a Tasimanian team until it wa® laisicterbained whiethier Queensland intiendte sending a team this seiaison. - Several .speakers expressed the opinion that "New Zealand, cricket would not benefit by an interchange of visits with Tasmania, as New .Zealand cricket had ptnoigressted andj wia® now better than Tnsmaniian cricket.