The visitors will visit the Taieri during the morning, and in the evening after the match they will attend the Savage Club's entertain ment.
Wellington, September 11. Tho heat for the senior football cup between the Poneke and the Wellington Clubs resulted ;n a win for Poneke by two tries to nil.
OTAGO ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.
A special meeting of the council of the ahove society was held in the Government buildings on Friday afternoon. Present: Messrs J. P. Maitland (in the chair), A. C. Begg, R. Campbell, XV. Carlton, R. Chisholm, J. D. Daiison, J. A. Eweu, W. Ciiningham Smith, P. F. Stoddart, E. J. Spence, G. M. Thomson, J. Deans, and J. Wilkie. SUNDAY FISHING. The Chaiuman stated that the meeting had been called in consequence of the receipt of three petitions from Clinton and Clutha dis tricts praying that the question of opening the streams on Sundays might be reconsidered.
The petitions, which were signed by 79 per sons, asked that the resolution should be re scinded, on the grounds that by ■permitting fishing on Sundays the Sabbath would be dese crated, and that persons who hitherto per mitted fishing in streams running through their propertie, might in future prevent fishing even ou week days.
