MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 80, 6 April 1910, Page 8

MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

This evening Mr. C. J. Crawford will speak in the Masonic Hall, Adelaideroad. Mr. Townsend invites electors favourable to his candidature for Miramar Mayoralty to meet him to-morrow afternoon. A notico of interest to the ladies of Worser Bay is also advertised in t-his issue.

In the matter of the sculling championship to take place on the Zambesi lliver next August, Mr. Charles Janson writes :—"lt: — "It will be of interest to relate that Ernest Barry, the English champion, who is to row Richard Ar.nst, is a younger brother of William Albert Barry, who won the Doggett's Coat and Badge, on the River Thames, in 1891. Mr. Batry, their father, bringing bis sou William Albert, paid a visit to Australia soon after this event. They came in the Orient steamship Oroya, leaving Tilbury Docks on the Ist January, 1692, and arrived in Sydney Harbour on Sunday, the 14th February. The harbour presented a charming aspect ; the weather was glorious, and it being "Admiral's Day," all the available craft were out on the water, with new sails, gliding along in a* gentle breeze. The visitors were delighted. I have no doubt from the interviews, I, as a fellow-pas-senger, had with them, that they came out to see James Stanbury, who in the previous year had twice won the world's scvlling championship from J. M'Lean. I know they went to see him. I think they also visited William Beach, who had on seven successive occasions won the world's sculling championship— that was during the years 1884-87. They had a desire also to see the Paramatta River course, on which most of the world's championship matches had been rowed since 1884. Ernest Barry won the Doggett's Coat, Badge, and Freedom in 1905. The Field newspaper said of him :—: — "He bids fair to make a name for himself. He stands 6ft in height, possesses undoubted strength, reaches out well, and rows with a good body swing. The establishment of the coat and badge was instituted in 1715 by Thos. Doggett, a celebrated comedian, in honour of the House of Hanover, to commemorate the anniversary of King George's accession to the throne of Great Britain. .The prize was a red coat, with a large silver badge on the arm — bearing the white horse of Hanover, and the race had to bo rowed on the Thames on Ist August annually by six young watermen, who were not to have exceeded the time of Mteir apprenticeship by twejvt mjntjvi.