AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10501, 13 December 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON—PAYNE PICTURES.

A. large and enthusiastic audience greeted! tlhe programme presented at the Foresters' Hal last evening. Aainong the dramas, "Foe to BAche- ' lieu" .(a magnificent, historical dra,mu), "Jim iOrpw"' (a sporting issudy), '"'The "(a fine ":tita- ; graph"•'-' subject),','. , "Witohi. of tlie Range" .'and ''The Sacrifice" (a Vitagrtffch production), were particularly good. A capital budget of scenic, topical 1 and comic subjects were also shown, making a first-rate collection;. The programme wißl be presented for the last time to-' night.

BOXING

An. important professional contest hais been arranged by the Tinnai centre cf the Waiiraiapa Boxing Association to take pllace at tin© Town Hall, Masterton, on Wednesday, thie 20th inst., when "Denny'' Murphy, who recently defeated' Tim Tracy at Blenheim, wiM box Archie Leckie, of. Wellington, for the .welter-weight eha mpionslrip, of -New Zealand and a purse of £SO. Both men are confident'Of annexdrog premier honours, and' the match siluoivld be a particularly intere.st.'jng one. Leckde's numerous victories are too wel'l-fcnowav to need detaiiKing, but he will have to' be iln. top form to defeat Mairphy, who has come to the front iSO quickly of hite. As "curtain-raisers" to the principalevent, the promising young bantam, 0. Olsen, of Masterton, has beew matched with A. Jwplan.,' the Wellington champion, and 0. Ca'dwaMuler. the clever Carterton lightweight, will contest five rounds with J. Smith, of Petone, who won thle light-weight title of the West Ooa.st. last season. Negotiations for a match for G. Barr, who has so distinguished himself of late, are in hand, and wiilH, no 1 doubt, be brought to a. successful iissue.