ATHLETICS AND CYCLING.
♦ A difficulty has occurred in connection with the proposed afliliatiou of the Wellington Cycling Club with the New Zealand League of Wheelmen! A short time ago tho club seceded from the Oj cling Alliance, and decided to affiliate with the League. The latter body, however, finds that it cannot grant affiliation' unless the club alters its name, as the League had previously. 1 registered the ollitsr cycling club in this city (composed ol" cash aniatonu<) as the " Wellington Cydii.g <;lub." The club that is/now ai'iil^iiiK for :< ttilin Lioti i** disinclined' to altor its name,*!"* il \t:tbiu cxi. tence years' beloro the other club vow in Wellington, and just at prt^eut it it> in the peculiai pobiiijii of not Ung.illiliatc.l to the League of Whuehneu or to the Cycling Alliance. The whole matter is to be threshed out 'at a meeting of the club next week. {BY TELEGBAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.! CnßisTcnuECH, This Day. At a special meeting of the Council of the Ttfew Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, held to consider applications from the Canterbury, Dunedin, and Wellington Amateur Athletic Clubs to include the League of Wheelmen cash and amateur cycling events in their programmes for the forthcoming meetings, the following resolution was carried by eight to bix :—": — " That tkis Association signifies its approval of placing cycling events for amateurs on athletic programmes under the amateur definition of the New Zealand Cyclists' Alliance and the New Zealand League of Wheelmen."
Messrs. Wardell Bros., grocer* and tea merchants, of Willis - street, advertise a special price list of high-class groceries and provisions in this issue. A fish sale is advertised for this evsning l»y Messrs. Laery & Co. A boot sale is notified by Mr. J. Lander, of Newtown, Messrs. Freeman R. Jackson & Co. and Abraham & Williams notify that they havo arranged to work the Johnsonville sale yards jointly, but it will entail no alteration in their business.
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1898, Page 6
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