OTHER MATCHES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4671, 19 June 1893, Page 1

OTHER MATCHES.

Tbe match Albion Third v. Eastern resulted in a draw. Both sides scored five points. A match between the Waltham First and Pirates Third resulted in a win for the former by thirty-four points to three. The match Linwood Fourth v. Kaiapoi Fourth resulted in a win for the former by fifteen points to nil. A match between the Marshlands and Papanui schools, played on Friday afternoon, wa3 won by the former by nine points to two points. The West Christchurch school- boys journeyed to Kaiapoi on Saturday, and played a match against the Kaiapoi Borough School, winning by seven points to nil. A match was played on Saturday between the East Chri3tchurch School and Eastern Second, and resulted in a win for the school by two points to nil. Ormandy scored the try. The first match played by the new Football Club at Amberley came off on Thursday afternoon at Ambarley against a mixed team from Rangiora. The game was evenly contested throughout, and considering that the Amberley men are so new to the game, and have had so little chance of learning ib, they played exceedingly well. In the first spell Amberley scored two triep, which were converted ; the Rangiora men scored the same number of tries in second spell, but only converted one, leaving the Amberley team victorious by ten points to seven. The visitors were entertained at dinner. The following is the team picked to play for the Post and Telegraph Department in the annual match with Chrißt's College, which takes place on Wednesday :—Larcoinbe, Mansell, M'Guire, Cotter, Gray, King, West, Jennings, Saigeant, Srookar, Young, Burgess, Chambers and Cox ; emergencies— Mathewe, Shelton, Hean and E. E. Mortimer.

[Pbk Presb Association.! WELLINGTON, June 18. The following will represent Wellington in the match against the New Zealand representative team on Wednesday: — Pull-back, Wilson; three-quarters, T. Wynyard, Gage and Baker; halves, Butl&nd and Baumber; forwards, M'Kenzie, Kelly, Ellison, M'Lean, Hyland, Pringle, Stuart, Oliphant and A. Campbell; emergencies — Backs, H. J. Wynyard and .Roberts; forwards, Bishop and Thompson. The team ia practically composed o£ Wellington men, for although Butland and M'Kenzie were nominated for the New Zealand team by the West Coast and Wairarapa Unions respectively, they have sine a taken up their residence in Wellington. The choice of a half-back to take Elliott's place in the New Zealand team lay between Caracas, of Auckland, and Shannon, oi Marfcou. Caradus was selected on Saturday, but; later in the day he was injured in a snatch ia Auckland, which prevented him accepting a place in the team. The Se?se£«).n Committee then decided to take Shannon"/ w^° ca 9 Sfet the necessary leave.