AUSTRALIAN AQUATICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 161, 9 July 1888, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN AQUATICS.

, The visit sf Edward Hanlan to Brisbane and Sockharapton has seated quite an ascit^BJenfc in aqqatie circles in Queensland. The r^toqied aquatic representa-tim-';#3o*;tfes.ve 'been "to see ■ the contest lin thaSlitzjrOT Biver are loud in ,pr*iae of the.pnivejfflJ sljpwn them in the V.ptraJ.g»p\tal,,and.during their short aojo)irn a| prlsb^no. At Rockhampton it fa proposed to hold an interriational '«eullingraee during next year, and already a considerable sanj ha?. heen au,bß,qribed in order to make tfie prke one worthy of drawing the'" professional aquatic Wbpti d{ ti^iyo^d to compete for. Mr J. :,%fe; F^W in. these ffiatterrirprobably second to none, will draft a set of rules ynder which such a conte|tlwoqiij aaeet • with the. entire i approval of the public, and will place them before a cojnniittieiqf jßoekhampton gentlemen, who *re«a|o^|pcaiTy;the, w^ter through.. Itis PF»J?W tp.wke tjje first prize $1000, and *p.%e,secpfld aqd third prizes in proporW:^ T this amount, probably £500 and Wmym a generajly belayed. that such £ liberal pier1 woul^ bripg together ?• K<«n|),,E. Banian, J. J. %s&s? $> W.Rosa, A. »T m> m Cour&ey« ml .Matterson, C. f^Mfed, # Perkins, J. Stansfjif'if JN-fe. H, Wulfe, and it is BMm mfflfc the redoubtable inyin-W^-#fnpion William Beach micht WJmm to come away from his home at %$> $m ;the lists again,