WELLINGTON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3145, 27 July 1881, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

July 27

A meeting of the Star Boating Club was held last night to consider the advisability of instituting an amateur sculling championship for New Zealand. It was decided that tbe club should take the initiative steps towards the establishment of the object, and a committee was appointed to draw up proposals, which will be submitted to all the rowing clubs throughout the colony. A preliminary enquiry was held yesterday into the circumstances connected with the wreck of the schooner Magyie Patterson at the Heads. The evidence went to show that the casualty was due to a mistake made by the mate when entering the Heads, he haviug mistaken a rock near the lighthouse for one at the extreme end of Barrett's Beef. The vessel is now a total wreck. She was sold by auction this afternoon for £52, and her cargo of coal, hids, and zinc realised £77. The following intercolonial we&tber exchange has been received:—Sydney, Tuesday.—Tbe depression reported on featurday as east of Bass's Straits is still affecting the east of Tasmania. Tbe barometer rising in the west, being 30-4 at Albany and Borda, but falling at Sydney, being 303 yesterday and 30 2 to-day, and at Hobart yesterday 299. Fine weather generally except in Victoria, where rain has fallen for two days, with light westerly winds.