FOOTBALL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13008, 24 June 1904, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

NEW ZEALAND KUGRY UNION. (Per United Press Association.) ■ WELLINGTON, June 23. At a meeting of tho Committee of tho New Zealand Rugby Union tlio terms offored by tlio .Otago anil Canterbury Unions for matches against the- English team were not considered r.otisfactovy, and it was decided to communicate with, these unions further on the matter. Correspondence ,\\ as received from tlio Otago Union relative to tho suspension of Duncan, but tho committee considered it tliron* no fresh light on the subject', and tleclinocl to removo tho suspension.. iFkoh Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, June 23. The Management Committee of tho Rugby Union lias to deal with an enormous amount of correspondence, and has a busy time in front of it. Tlio committee intends to devote its next meeting entirely to matters eonncctcd with tho visit of the English team, and no slono is to be left unturned to nittke. tho best possible arrangements, WELLINGTON RUGBY UNION. (Per United Piikss Association.) ' WELLINGTON, June 23. Tho. Wellington Rugby Union has arranged the dates for the representative matches as, folloir:—Wairorapa, July 23; iUanawatu, July 30; Ilawke's Day, August 2; Auckland, August 6; Tarannki, August 10; Canterbury, August 20; Otago, September 10. If was decided to warn a spectator off all grounds under the union's jurisdiction lihtil he apologised for making disparaging remarks to a referee. A special'inquiry is to 1« held on July 7 into the circumstances connected with the death of Edgar. Thomson during a football match on Juno 11.

Our Wellington correspondent win};:— "A well-known ex-footballer who about a fortnight ago was committed to tho Porirua. Hospital for .Mental Diseases has already twice escaped, from (ho institution. A fovv days commitment lie made his first escape, and shortly after' 2 o'clock on Wednesday he got clean away for tho second time. He was eventually found in a shop at Petone about 10 .o'clock last night and irduced' to go to the police station.' Ho has been again taken out to the hospital. He rode into J.'etono on a hay horse with a cover on it."