INVERCARGILL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 17, 23 January 1891, Page 7

INVERCARGILL.

(From an occasional Correspondent.)

„ , January 19th, 1891. The annual meeting of the Irish Athletic Society of Southland was held in the Shamrock Hotel on Friday evening, January 16. There Wis a fair attendance of members and Mr. J. T. Martin was voted to the chair. The balance-sheet, which showed the Society to be in a good financial position, was adopted. It was decided to hold the sports this year on Wednesday, March 18th, to be followed by a concert and ball. Sub-committees were appointed to draw up a code of rules, a programme of sports, etc. Some time ago the various athletic associations entered into an agreement with the Corporation to secure a 21 years' lease of the Park Reserve for holding their annual gatherings. The Irish Athletic Society's quota of £36 towards securing this lease was promptly paid, and everything promises to make the sports in March next one of the most successful an-i popular githeriogs ever held in Southland. The Society has in the past earned for itself a well-merited reputation, owing not only to the attractive programmes consisting of many novel and interesting items, for which substantial prizes are offered, but to the able and efficient manner in which the games are carried out. I need not remind the Irishmen of Southland that it behoves them to give what assistance they can to maintain this reputation, and to make their national gathering of 1891 even more successful than those of former years.