FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9075, 8 June 1888, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

AN AUCKLAND TEAM TO GO SOUTH. Although, since the two interprovincial contests with the English team, it has been pretty generally stated that the proposed tour of an Auckland representative fifteen in the Southern provinces had been postponed indefinitely, the matter had not been finally settled in any direction by the Rugby Union. , The question was somewhat unexpectedly brought under discussion at the ordinary meeting of the committee of management this week, when a resolution was passed that a team should be sent South as originally intended, and the date of its departure fixed for the 21st July. This decision will moet with the general approval of footballers in Auckland if! a first-class fifteen or twenty players caii be sent; but a strong feeling prevails that the project should be abandoned if there is. ariy possibility of a weak contingent Being chosen. This matter, however, depends upon the players themselves, and the Selection Committee; and as the time is drawing near, tho former should ascertain at once whether they will be able to obtain the necessary leave of absence, and communicate the result promptly to the Union. A pleasing feature of the arrangements for the tour is that by the time the team is ready to go the Union will be in a position to do without any gate money from the towns visited, and to bear the whole expenses of the trip. The programme of matches has not yet been arranged, as the Southern Unions will need to be consulted, but it is certain that matches will be played at Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Mew Plymouth. Should our strongest team be able to undertake the trip, the form shown by Auckland in the recent matches with the English players, as compared with that exhibited by the representatives of the other provinces, points to the conclusion that the blue-and-white banner will probably come back to the city with several more victories inscribed upon it.

Men who work about gasworks are no* s subject! to epidemics. Whoever now covers their footpaths with coal-tar to prevent fever will gain another advantage when the wet season sets in : neither grass nor weeds will grow thereon.

A few special lines very cheap this week at McMaster and Shalders', Queen-street. Ladies' Ulsters at 10s 6d and 12s 6d ; Girl's School Hats for 2s 6d; New Plush Toque at 6s 6d; All-wool Dress Serges, 9M; Girl's School Jackets from ss; Boys' Jersey and Tweed Suits from 3s lid; Men's New Zealand Tweed Suits from 37s 6d; Colonial Tweed for Boy's Clothing at la lid, very heavy ditto for 3s 3d per yard } Wren's and Ladies' Hose from 6d per p&nw ty good from Is to 2s.

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