CHAMPIONSHIP SPORTS MEETING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 56, 25 February 1908, Page 3

CHAMPIONSHIP SPORTS MEETING

H' ly arrangement which is not l.u-t compieie lor to-moiiow's \ew Zealand eliampioii.,iiip sports meeting in the Itecre.ition Sport, (iround is that m connection uith the weather. Everything that can [ v done hys been done to secure an attractive meeting. Liberal prize-money in the championship and other events has attracted record entries, and amongst the competitors arc the crack, of the Dominion-runners, m-lists, and Highland dancers and pipers. 'lhe secretary of (lie Xew Plymouth Caledonian jSoeietv received Avonl i:«sl night that Mr. C. .VlelJonald. lalclv piper to Sir Donald Currie, will be coniPi'ling. lie has been oidv a few m New Zealand, ami h,H alreadv sue- j ecs-lully ~,nipetV,l at Dunedin.' A\ a | iiganui. an I Napier. It will be intcre-i- i mg to see (he Uielanders of the I), S " l " ll »" in coin|)etitioi, with this lah-t i ■"•'lH'silion from the -liiiud „' Cake-" ; ['; >l ", l ' ,is " "f the fastest * V r\ a Wr* ".' '-olony has seen, will arrive in town Ins evening, together with the majorilv >t the competitors. An excellent'track '•■'•s been prepared. Apart from the •pons there will be numerous other sidei til-act urns, such as the mcrry-go-rouu.l. 'efre's'limeiifs "* l ,rovisi " u f< "'