FIELD SPORTS & AQUATICS

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 140, 15 June 1893, Page 7

FIELD SPORTS & AQUATICS

The New Zealand Rugby Union team will leave Wellington for Sydneybythe Hauroto on Wednesday, Juno 21, on which date the team will play 15 reps of Wellington province. The team will return via Auckland, playing in that province before disbanding. The Haurofco arrives ab Sydney on the 26th June. Ib is probable a districb match will be arranged in New South Wales, between that date and July 2nd, on which the first match with the colony will be played. Tho Selection Committee, Messrs Henderson (Auckland), Logan (Hawke's Bay), and Campboll (Wellington), had a most difficult task in choosing the final team, which is aa follows: FULL-BACK. A, D'Arcy, Wairarapa, 13st 81b. THREE-QUARTHR BAOKS. A. Good, Taranaki, 12sb. F. M. Jervis, Auckland, llafc 81b. G. Harper, Nelson, list 71b. Wilson, Wellington. A. Bayly, Taranaki. HALF-BACKS. D. Gage, Wellington, 12sb 21b. Bubland, West Coast, 12st21b. W. Elliotb, Auckland, 12st 41b. M. Herrold, Auckland, list. FORWARDS. Lambie, Taranaki, 13st 61b. A. Stuart, Wellington, list 91b. S. Cockrotb, Manawabu, 12sc 101b, W. Pringle, Wellington, 12st 21b. T. Hiroa, Hawke'a Bay, 12sb 71b. W. McKonzie, Wairarapa, 13sb. Gardiner, South Canterbury, list 41b. T. R. Ellison, Wellington, 13st 81b. C. Speight, Auckland, 12st 51b. F. Murray, Auckland, 13st 4lb. Mowlem, Manawatu. "Tab" Wynyard, one of the backs selected to visit Australia with the Now Zealand Rugby Union team, is unable to secure the necessary leave, aud ib has been decided that Mowlem, of Palmerston North, one of the emergency forwards, will take his place in tho team.