REGATTA NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5467, 27 January 1885, Page 3

REGATTA NOTES.

Estbies for all events cm the programme ~ th 9 Auckland Annual Kegatta will be ~<*ivcd at the Waitemuta Hotel this) evenKtwen 8 and 9.30 p.m. After that w« will be drawn for, as umal. The SSSJJwo will most likely kh through, or lack of composition, and the scow ct> may meet with a similar mislor fnne through the dread pome masters have of successfully running their vessols in Eomp'ny with the Vixen The two cutter races will be numerously contested, and ihould prove of great interest, especially a? the entries will include several new vessel. In tbe large yacht race the entries will be four mo uding the Muritai, Kita, Arawa, and'Tawera. All the fishing-boat races wili be well contestad, and will bring out a ereat vaiiety of new crafls. Great interest will also bo attached to the small y»cht races, very many vessels, both old and new having been placed in excellent trim in prospect of exciting, and close contest?! Tie open-boat races should beaseoedas any previously sailed in the harbour. Of twenty feet open-boats there will be seven ar oight entries, and there should be quite as many entries from owners of sixteen■ feet boats The chamdon nhaleboat raco, which is,oor.r course, the principal event of the day. la to be rowed on the western side of Queen street Wharf, starting at 3 p.m., and everybody should see it. Northcote, Pongonby and tho wharves will provide the W elevations for sight-seers on shore. Entries for this great event will include the following:—Petono Naval Brigade, Thames, Hauraki, Manukau Kowing Club, Ponsonby Rowing Club (two crows), North Shore Rowing Club, Waitemata Kowing Club (two crews), and Wairoa. The iuniora will provide three crows in whaleboats, viz., the Waitemata, Ponsonby, ■nd VVairoa, and a hard struggle should be fie result. Merchant fO ling vessels in hirboir will in o.- gigs", probably thu VsnduaiO, Laira, and other.', Entries for the dingy race should be numerous, Kohimarama Trainlug School will have two crews for the boys' raeo, tho raco for Naval Brigade boats should have eomreti | torT from Auckland and North Shore, the special raw (sixteenth), entries from Harbour Board, Telegraph find Tost Offices, «!d thb race for men o'-war boats promises tj fall throujjh. A complete list of entries will be published in the Star to-morrow. A)l the wha!eboats intended for entry ' ire, so f»r M we can ascertain, up to the required measurement. The Wairoa boat and Norti) Shore boat have each been incrßaSed three inches in depth by the addition of an ejetra plank. Or Regatta l)ay the ?,s. Paituki will taavethe wharf at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m for Motutapu, return fare 3s (Jd, and during the afternoon she will cruise about the hurbonr, timed to accompany the Champion Whaleboat Race and other races, tickets There U a good deal of betting on the nhaleboatrace, Ponsonbybejngtljeiavourite »t2tolj Petone, Waiteroata, Wairoa, and ffanraW, 4 to 1; North Shore, Manukau, tod Thames, sto 1. Tljere wpro takers of Ponsonby at 3 to 1, and oi Waitemata, Wairoa, and Petone at 5 to 1. The two Thames whaleboat crews are in «ct!vo training hore, aijd hope to give a good account of themselves. No. 1 crew comprises the Goldsworthy and Newdick brothers—two from each family. Tlieee men composed the celebrated Thames champion crew, who won so many victories lomo years ago. They are fine burly r'mens of humanity, and the way shape at practise phow that they | possess plenty of their old form. No. 2 i crew contain the Fisher brothers, three stalwart young giants, trading from Tararu Creek. Visitors to the flagship on Rtgatta Day frequently complain of the want of amusemen* in the immediate neighbourhood of tho ship to fill up the intervals between the (Venta oii the programme, and to supply this pot the committee "are endeavouring ji) jrronge for a duck hunt, rob roy canoe face, Sc. P-erebns willjrig to take p.wt in such aro recreated to put themselves in communication 'with tuo committee tomorrow evening at the Waitemata Hotel.