FOOTBALL.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue LXIV, 13 September 1902, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

NORTH v. SOUTH ISLAND. The Rugby struggle between repvepentatives of the North and South Islands « being played as we go to pr«s. There is a •very large number of spectators at , the Park, amongst them being His Excellency the Governor and Sir Jo3eph Ward. This evening the teams will be entertained by the Now Zealand Union at the Hotel Cecil, and the Southern .piny era ■will leave for their homes at 9 o'clock by the Penguin. RECEPTION OP TEAMS. There was a distinctly cordial tone about the reception which was accorded this morning to the visiting teams by - the Mayor of Wellington, in the presence of the Chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union (Mr. G. F. C. Campbell) and a number of gentlemen prominent in Rugby circles. The Mayor congratulated the New Zealand Union on imanging n North v. South Island match, and on being favoured with such splendid weather ; and congratulated the two Islands on being represented by such teams. The fine day vindicated Wellington from the bad-weather reputation the city had in other placed, and would, lie hoped, enable such a game to bo played «s was seldom seen in New Zealand — - one from which young* students of the game would be able to pick up many points. Whichever Island won, lie was j ■uro the other would smile und say, " Come again next time. " In the ab•ence of Captain M. E. Wood (South Island), whose steamer did not arrive in time for the reception, Captain H. Kiernan (North Island) expressed the thanks of both teams in some forcible and wellchosen remorks, and trusted the gunie would be oho of the best over played in Wellington. The non-players *pie«ent having cheered both teams, the tennis responded by cheering the Mayor and the non-playern.