Polo.

Manawatu Herald, 8 November 1900, Page 2

Polo.

: • « J Mr C. J. Crawford, the hon. secretary of the New Zealand Polo Association, has received the following letter from Mr Edward Manifold, of pamperdown, in answer to an invitation sent to the Victorian Association to send a team to visit New Zealand :— " In answer to yours of the 26th July, I beg to inform you that a Victorian team will visit you this season. The ponies will leave Melbourne tor you about the 20th January (they do dot yet bnow exact date of sailing,) and go to Wellington via Sydney, or else we might truck them as far as Sydney. However, we have definitely decided to leave about that date. The players will leave a week later or thereabouts. I presume there is good stabling accommodation in Wellington, where we would like them to remain until we arrive. There will be twenty ponies in all, and all stabled. We do not want to play a match until a week after we land, and no more than a couple of matches a week. We intend to leave out Christcburch, as I think it better to do so at the start, and not to say that we will go there and then ' not to go.' The matches would then be as follows : — At Wellington, against Wellington ; at Palmerston North, against Oroua, against Rangitikei, and against Manawatu: at Hastings, against Hawke's Bay, at Palmerston North against New Zealand ; and at Wellington against New Zealand. These are the ones we wish to play, and hope to be able to go through with all these, although I suppose if we do happen to require more when there we can then arrange for them. I presume our ponies will get good stabling at Palmerston North, as I think that would be our Best headquarters.