Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1895.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 88, 16 April 1895, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1895.

Evidently rowing men are not easily discouraged . Ju two cou secutiye years Championship Re gattas have been appointed , to be Jield at Picton, and both cases thp weather has been bad. In spite of these disappointments a resolution was passed yesterday recommending the adoption of Queen Charlotte's Sound as the permanent place toy the Championship meetings. Perhaps it is no/; amiss ,to point out in $ modest y/ay tb/at, whereas yesterday and ,to - day a living tempest seems to have been blowing in Picton, in Nelson we have had ou the one day calm and rainless weather and ou ihe other moat beautiful sunshine. In fact Nelson seems to have been about the only place anywhere near the middle of Now Zealand which has had tolerablygood weather. Picton of course has many advantages as the scene of a regatta. The Bound ia very pretty, and the place is easily reached from Wellington, but if it is to be found every year that it is necessary to put oil the paces day after day, it would be better tospjerjdt^LOtimo necessary to reach a place y/bi're thoro is » fair prospect of smooth water. Land-locked water surrounded by high hills is notoriously dangerous for boating, on account of the sudden guslH which appear to come almost straight down on boats. Of course we get a share of wind here and it might happen to any place to have bad weather when line was specially wanted. The rowing men before finally making up their injinds always to have their races at P.iclon yould do well to See if tier's is any "record £br a number; of years of the autumn weather in! Queen Charlotte Sound. ' Easter' Monday, of course is not a fixed date, but yarjes considerably, and the proposal is noy ujade to limit the tim,e "within which the regatta may he held, so that it shall not necessarily happen oa.Easter Mon° day. The worst of this is that the ordinary run of people cannot get

away from their work except during public holidays, and there would be this certainty that if a regatta were held at any other time the attendance would be poor. The promoters have now been twice unlucky and we wish them every good fortune i.n future, but it would be wise before fixing themselves to any particular place to get as many statistics of weather as possible.