AQUATICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 155, 30 December 1905, Page 5

AQUATICS.

[BY TELEGRAM!.— PRESS ASSOCI VTION.] WANGANUI, 29th December. The Wanganui regatta, was held to-day. The weather was stormy. The senior fours had to be abandoned, and will be rowed to-morrow morning. Junior fours. — Wanganui Rowing Club 1, Napier Unions 2, Napier Rowiitg Club 3. Maiden DoubleSculls.— Wellington Rowing Club 1, Aramoho 2. Youths' Fours.— Wanganui Unions 1. Maiden Pairs. — Wanganui Unions 1, Wanganni Rowing Club 2.

Mr. H. W. Lucy, the London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, writes to tbat journal:— Passengers across the Atlantic are familiar with a custom introduced within the last few years by order of iho Government of the United States. On purchasing his tioket, each traveller is supplied with a printed form, the blan!:. in which he is required to fill up in response to detailed enquiry. Amongst other things, he is asked to what part of the States ho is bound; how long he intends to remain there ; how much money he will have in his pocket when he arrives ; his age and occupation ; whether he was ever in gaol or a lunatic asylum, with other biographical details, Tbis inquisition is designed with the object of controlling tho inrush of nH°ns. On Ist January i.txt the Aliens Act, passed last wesson, will come into operation. Steamship companies carrying passengers between British and Continental ports have just been informed that an identical system will be enforced on their bouUt. It is bad enough to suffer on the Atlantic voyage. The nuisance to passengers .making brief cross-chan-nel passages, and the burden upon tho steam packet companies of circulating and collecting the forms of enquiry, are not calculated «o mcmite enthusiasm for the legislation of his Majesty's Government. Messrs. W. Uttlejohn mid Son .wj.ll re. rniin open till' 10 o'clock to-night.