PORT NICHOLSON YACHT CLUB.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1898, Page 6

PORT NICHOLSON YACHT CLUB.

» . NAUTICAL EXHIBITION. The Port Nicholson Yacht Club has to congratulate itself on having, through the good offices of Mr. J. It. Blair, secured the use of the lecture-room of the Board of Education for itsannual nautical exhibition. The hall is admirably adapted for the purpose, and the club has been able to make a great show of. the photographs, paintings, models, &c, which have been lent to it. j The exhibition was opened this afternoon, and is admittedly the best the club has yet held. The exhibits number fully 300, representing the different types of pleasure -sailing craft to he seen in British, colonial, and American waters. There are numerous models of yachts, schooners, and steam-engines, as well as a very attractive display of marine appliances, paints, &c., made by Messrs. E. W. Mills and Co., a sample of obtained in Whangaroa, the beautiful nautical trophy won by Mr. E. C. E. Mills with the Xarifa in Wellington some years ago, a piece of the British war - vessel ltoyul George, which foundered at Spithead in 1782, and was raised in 1839 ; a model of an admiral's barge made by a raan-o'-wjiwman during the mutiny at the Nore in 1797 ; a miniature of the Cape Farewell lighthouse, and a large model of a schooner with beauti-fully-unibhed brass fittings, the pumps, capstan, &c, being all in excellent working order, reflecting great credit upon the maker, Mr. H. Powell, of Messrs. Cable & Co.'s foundry. A conspicuous object in the hall is the large oil painting, by Mr. J. M. Nairn, of Mr. E. W. Mills, ex- Commodore of the Fort Nicholson Yacht Club, which the members are to present him with as an evidence of their esteem. A wedding took place at St. Augustine's Church, Pelone, this afternoon, vthen Mr. W. M. Davidson, of Napier, was married to Mibb Mary Meyers, of Pelone. The Itey, J. D. .Russell was the officiating clergyman.