Otago v. Southland.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7826, 19 August 1904, Page 6

Otago v. Southland.

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Dunedin, Last Night

The following players will represent Otago against Southland :— Fullback, Booth ; threequar.9rs, Baxter, Bennett and Dobson ; halfbacks, Munro, King and Hislop ; forwards, Casey, Spiers, McDonald, Mitchell, Smart, Abbott, Johnston and Porfceous ; emergency, Adams. The above, with the following, will make the Northern tour: — Backs, Gilray, Kidley and Bolt; forwards, C. Stewart, Harris and Caradus.

Tbe New Zsaland Union estimates the expenses of tho British team from Sydney to Sydney at £11300. All profits of tbe New Zealand tour above that sum must bo shared equally by the New Zealand and tho New South Wales Unions. Already tho New Zealand Union ha? cleared at Christehurch £080 (SO per cent, of the gross takings. £8,10), at Dunedin .17150 (SO per cent, of £950), at Wellington .617150 (80 per cent, of £•2200), and .£BOO at New Plymouth (total of Taranaki Union's guarantee, in lieu of " gate ") ; an aggregate of £;>uoo. Also, tickets worth about .£250 have been sold in Auckland, and as gates in the Northern City arc always good, tho New Zealand Union should clear there at least £1000. or £-1,100 for the whole tour. Taking away tho estimated expenditure, £1000, and halving tho remainder, we find the New Zealand Union's clear profit to be £1600. Not mush tinancial danger here, apparently. This should be something solid towards sending a New Zealand team Home next ye at

Apropos of Mr Rand's (N.S.W. I nion) remarks at the dinner at Wellington on Saturday night with regard to New Zealand being visited in future by an Australian team (instead of by New South Wales and Queensland teams separately), Mr Hand states that it was more than a hope that he expressed, and that it had been definitely arranged that in future the touring team shall be an xAustralian one.

The Government must have done well out of the telegraphic receipts from tho Britain-New Zealand match. Skipper Stead received fifty congratulatory telegrams and eight cablegrams ; other members of the team received about half-a-dozen telegrams each. Stead received telegrams from the Maoris in all parts, and even from Stewart Island. New Zealand footballers now in South Africa sent a cablegram from Natal.

It took six men to lift all tho silver taken at tho gates at Wellington on Saturday.