YACHT RACE.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9013, 28 January 1895, Page 5

YACHT RACE.

(PBBSa ASSOOIAXIOir XBJCBORAH.) • WELLINGTON, January 26. Great interest was taken in the Scale .Handicap Yacht Race yesterday, owing to the fact that the competitors included the Waitangi, from Auckland, the Mascotte and the Pastime, frota Lyttelton, and all the principal local yachts. The course was once xound of the champion course on Tuesday, about sixteen miles. A heavy northerly breeze was blowing at . the start, but it moderated as the day wore on. The Waitangi (scratch) ' soon took, the lead, and maintained it to the finish. The race was robbed of a good deal of interest, owing to one of the Mascotte's crew (N. Haydon) falling overboard. She lost so much time in attempting to rescue him, that she lost any chance of winning, and gave up. She had a handicap of six minutes from the Waitangi, and when the accident occurred was several hundred yards behind her. The Pastime, which, was overhauling the ilaecotte, stopped to assist Haydon, otherwise she would have won the first prize on the time allowance of fifteen minutes. As it was she has taken third prize, being less than one second behind the WaitangL The first prize was won by Isca (seventeen minutes) which finished fifteen minutes behind the WaitangL If the Lyttelton boats can remain the race will be re-sailed next Saturday. Judge Oliver, of Sydney; was umpire. Haydon was rescued by the Yacht Club's steamer. He was in an exhausted condition.