NEW ZEALAND GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2371, 10 August 1899, Page 40

NEW ZEALAND GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 6. Detailed arrangements for the New Zealand Golf Championship are being completed, and there is every probability that the meeting will be the best yet held in the colony. Competitors are expected from all over New Zea-* land. As the Ladies' Championship is to be played the following week, there will be on unusually large gathering of golfers in Wellington, and all may expect a good time, for the local club is sparing no trouble in the arrangements. In-addition to this, Lord Ranfurly, who is patron of the club, and himself an enthusiastic player, has fixed the date of the next ball at Government House for the " 25th inst., so that the visiting/golfers may be invited. Entries for the championship close " on the 16th, and play will commence on the 2Jst. I learn that Sir Gollan, who has been," in England for some time, and is expected here in a few days in the Papanui, will be one of the competitors. It is hoped that Mr 0..: Gillies, the present champion of Australia, 'will also be able to compete', and, if so, there ' should be some very fine play between him, Mr Gollan, Mr W. Pryde (New Zealand champion), Mr Arthur Duncan, Mr D. Pryde (exchampion), and others. Mr Duncan on Saturday went round the Miramar course in 82, an excellent performance, seeing that the links were very wet. Mr Duncan hae previously made a score of 81, which is the best that has ever been done on the Miramar. Amongst the competitors this year there will be two Maoris from Hawke's Bay. The Maoris, both at Napier and Gisborne, have taken most enthusiastically to golf, and already they play so well that it is quite within, the bounds of probability that before many t year 3 they may furnish a New Zealand champion. A good many competitors are expected' for the Ladies' Championship, which will be played at the Hutt links. Mrs George Todd has just made a record score of 85 for the' ladies' course. At Miramar a new room has been added to the golf house for the Championship meeting. HARRIER NOTES. For the second time this season the Dunedin Harriers ran from Mrs Todd's restaurant in the Kaikorai Valley on Saturday, and, through the non-appearance of the hon. secretary, the paper trail was dispensed with, . and the pack, paced *by R, J. Jackson and whipped in by T. E. Bennett, indulged in an ordinary run of about six miles across th* country in the vicinity of the Silverstream. reservoir and back by the road through the Valley, finishing up with a sprint for homo, with the following result: T. E. Bennett ly T.- Arlidge 2, C. Bray 3.

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