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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 114, 17 December 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)

SPORTS ’ SPORTS ! ! SPORTS !! ! The Armed Constabulary Athletic Sports will be held at QRMOND, on JgOXING D A¥ Committee: Mr. Barrie, I Mr. Lorrigan, Mr. Villers, I Mr. Moor, Mr. Davis. Judge Captain W. A. Richardson. Programme: 1. —lOO yards Race 2. Standing High Jump 3. —Hop, Step, and Jump 4. —Hurdle Race, 200 yds, over 4 hurdles 3ft. 6in. 5. —Putting the Stone 6. —Running High Jump 7. —| mile Race 8. —Wrestling, (Cumberland style) 9. —Tilting the Ring 10. —3OO yards Race 11. —Running Long Jump 12. —Vaulting with Pole 13. —Standing Long Jump 14. —Wheelbarrow Race, blindfolded. 15. —Sack Race 16. —Three-legged Race 17. —1 mile Race. List of Prizes and Entrances, in future advertisement. GEO. DAVIS, Hon. Sec., pro tem. SPORTS ! ! SPORTS ! 1 ! TO BE HELD AT A KARA KA, on JJOXING J)AY. 26th December 1873. Committee. :— C. Berry A. Dalziell E. Cameron J. Dick T. Uren J. Mooney Hack Hurdle race for all comers 1. —lOO Yards Foot Race 2. —Putting the stone 3. —Boy’s race (handicapp’d ) 150 yards. 4. —Standing high Jump 5. —Vaulting with pole 6. —2OO yards flat race, handicapp’d 7. —Hop, step, and jump 8. Sack race 9. —Hack flat race, one mile 10. —Throwing the hammer 11. —Three-legg’d race 12. —Tossing the Caber 13. —Hurdle race, 300 yards, over four flights of hurdles 14. —Greasy pole climbing 15. —Tilting in the ring 16. —1 Hack race—consolation for all beaten horses The amount of Stakes, Entries &c., will appear in a future issue. By order of the Committee, A. DALZIELL, Treasurer. FENCING NOTICE. To Henry Fisher, Stapleton Cotton Caulton, George Rymer, John Gibson Kinross, Alexander Graham, James Buchanan, Turner, Benjamin James Hartnett, John Rankine Cowan, Edward Albert Devore, Benjamin Warnes, and Henry Lufkin Skeet, and others, the owners or occupiers of Suburban sections Nos. 58, 78, 79,140, 142, in the township of Gisborne, and of Town sections Nos. 270, 271, 296, 297, 312, 333, 341, 342, 343, and 347 in the said township. TAKE NOTICE that I, the undersipied George Edward Read, intend erecting a dividing fence between my land and that owned or occupied by yourselves in conformity with the Fencing Act of the Provincial Council of the province of Auckland, Session 11., No- 5, and I hereby require you to assist in erecting the said dividing fence within thiktl'-one days from this date, otherwise I shall proceed to erect the same, and call upon you for payment of one-half the cost of erecting or making the whole of such dividing Fence. G. E. READ. December 10,1873. ROBJOHNS, TEAT & Co. give Discount on all Cash Purchases in the Dbapeby and Boot Departments, on sums of Twenty Shillings and upwards.