SPORTS GATHERING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 77, 1 April 1914, Page 8

SPORTS GATHERING

The St. Patrick's Day Celebration Committee deserves to be kindly treated with the weather next Saturday afternoon, when the adjourned sports meeting from St. Patrick's Day is to be held. Thb use of New town Park has been obtained and a charge for admission will be made. By tho consent of the commanders of the Psyche a-nd Pyramus the two warships at present in port, the men have_ been granted permission to compete in events arranged amongst themselves. The items will bo more or less humorous. The final events for the Marist Bros.' School championship will be run off during the afternoon. As wrestling is one of the features of the schools' physical instruction, some nino scholars will try conclusions.

Tho many friends of Mr. John Coyle will regret to hear ot' his death, which occurred at his late residence, Northland, this morning. Tho deceased, who was in his sixty-third year, was for a long period an officer of the Terrace Prison, and was more recently gaoler a.t New Plymouth. 111-health' compelled him to retire from the prison service on superannuation in February last. The deceased was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his father's regiment was then stationed. lie was in the sth Dragoons for some time, and afterwards became n. member of the police force in Leeds. When he wa<s 33 years of age he came out to Auckland and there entered the prison servicp, .Soon afterwards he was transferred to Wellington and was stationed here for many years. He has left a- widow and a grown-up family of five sons and fivo daughters. Tho luneral will take place or Friday. Tenders are invited for foimalion work, plate-laying, and ballasting on a section of the South Island Main Trunk railway. Applications are called for the position of District Health Officer, Department of Public Health. Hospitals, and OliariUble Aid. ut Dujiediii.