AQUATIC NOTES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9300, 30 December 1895, Page 2

AQUATIC NOTES.

" Weekly Press and Referee."

By Clinker. The Lyttelton Regatta takes place on New Year's Day, and promises to be a great success. In the sailing races there are to be outside entries, which have been conspicuous in the past for their absence. The Wait-angi, the Auckland built crack yacht, will compete, ond alao two others from the North Island. The rowing rases are sure to give good sport, oe they have done in past years. The Senior are likely to be very close contests ;

the Wairewa and Union crews, which -were so much off at Akaroa Regatta, have since come on and are reported to be up to their old form. The other events will be hotly contested. I fancy the winners will turn upas follows:—Senior Pairs, Union ; Senior Double Sculls, Lyttelton; Yonths' Pairs, Akaroa : Youths , Double Sculls, Wairewa ; Maiden Pairs, Canterbury ; Maiden Double Sculls, Lyttelton ; Youths' Single Sculls, Lyttelton; Senior Single Suulls, Union ; Junior Pairs, Union. Mr F. D. Kesteven returned from Wellington on Friday. He speaks in high praise of the way the Wellington people looked after him. There is no doubt it is well worth the while of the Canterbury clubs sending a representative up to Wellington to explain resolutions put forth by them. I understand nearly the whole of the proposals sent up were passed. The members of the Otago Rowing Club have presented their deputy captain, on the occasion of his approaching marriage, with a handsome marble clock, bearing the following inscription :—" Presented to Leslie R. Wilson from the members of the Otago Rowing Club, December 17th, 1895." The presentation was made by Mr W. F. Edmnnds the captain, and in returning thanks Mr Wilson said he accepted the gift in the spirit in which it was given, and referred to the interest and pride -which he had always taken in the club. He had first joined the club in 1881, when rowing was at a low ebb here. Removing to Christchureh, he had the advantage of being coached by an experienced ex-University coach, and he had endeavoured to use the knowledge thus gained for the benefit of junior members of the Otago Rowing Club. The Napier Rowing Club got off their Trial Fours on December 7th, when the final heat was won easily by Mountfort's crew, who beat Reid's crew by two lengths and a half. The winning crew was as follows : — H. B. Mountfort (str) J. M. Hamilton F. W. Jago and A. G. Saxby. At a special general meeting of the Wellington Rowing Club held on December 13th it was decided that the club should be registered under the Unclassified Societies Registration Act, 1895. It was announced that the club's financial position was better than for some time past.