FOOTBALL.
Dunedin, to-day. The football match Dunedin v. Oamaru wa3 won by the former by nine points to nil.
Auckland, to-day
The football match Auckland v. Taranaki was won by the latter by two points.
Wellington, to-day.
The football match Blenheim v Rivals' Clab, Wellington, was won by the former after an exciting contest, by one point to nil.
The Selection Committee met last night in the Masonic Hotel and chose the following fifteen to play Napier on July 2, subject to alterations : — Full back : C. Lewis ; halves : L. Rees and Staite ; quarters : Smart, Wade, and Morgan ; forwards : Dunlop, Bourke, Leslie, Colebourne, A. Uees, Riki, Allen, Bull, and Bolton ; emergencies : back, Gillespie ; forward : Tucker and Wade. Members of the team are requested to roll up every afternoon for practice. The following ara the names of the eighteen chosen to play the representative team next Saturday : — Rua, Booth, Lemuel, Gillespie, Skeet, Davey, Tyler, Wade, Weston, Tucker, Arundel, Evans, Kennedy, Mitchell, Honi Piwaka, Honi Waitoj, Read and Vandy.
It ia to bo sincerely hoped that all these players will turn up on .Saturday to give the representatire team a good game.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4895, 22 June 1887, Page 3
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