Tainui Canoe Club.

New Zealand Mail, 22 April 1887, Page 14

Tainui Canoe Club.

We learn that two members of this Club (Messrs W. Fitz Gerald and W. Craig) had a long cruise during the Easter holidays. On Friday they started down the Wairaraps Lake from -Featherston and camped on the shores of the lake. The next day they proceeded down the lake and lower river, which, owing to the lake having been recently opened, ran with a Strong current to the ferry at the Lower Lake. On the Sunday, about 2 o’clock, they cairied their canoes across the Bandspit and launched them through the surf in Paliser Bay. '• his was accomplished with difficulty and a ducking, The wind was very light from the south, so they bad to paddle all day across the bay. On the way they formed the centre of attraction to a large shoal of porpoises, who gambolled close roond them for upwards of an hour. The scenery along the northern shore o f the bay, e=p«eially near the Muki Muka rocks, is very fine, the hills averaging over 3000 feet iu height. Passing Cape Taurakirae at dusk the canoeists lauded at Mr Kiddiford’s station at Orongorongo for tea. As the night was fiue they left again at nine by moonlight, paddled round Baring Head and into ha.b ur under the Pfncarrow light, when they camped near the Pilot Station for the night, beating up the harbour next morning. We believe this is the firrt time this journey has been accompli:hed by Rob Boy cances One of tbe Star Boat Club whaleboats spent the holidays ia tbe Pelorus Sound, being dropped there and picked up again by tbe Stormbird. The scenery and fishing divided the honors with the excursionists. ‘Jason,’ iu tbe Canterbury Times, does not attempt to controvert the facts we stated in answer to his sweeping charges agaiust the Star Boating Club. We have no desire to hurt his feelings or charge him with intentional untruths, but he must see how necessary it is for a writer who assumes to exprtss the sentiments of any set of men to find out the facts relating to the matters with which he deals, before distributing his censure on those who do not deserve it. A fearful and wonderful double boat or catamaran was sailing about the harbor on Saturday. On its return to its anchorage many people thought it was a raft constructed hy the sucvivors of seme shipwrecked vessel. Its owners, however, seemed to be enjoying their sail—but the craft can carry much more canvas i than she is at present provided with. (united peeks association.) Dunedin, April 15. The annual four-oared match between the Dunedin and Invercargill Rowing Clubs comes off to-morrow at 9 a.m. The Dunedin crew is as follows :—Brannigan (stroke), Mills, Butterworth and Park. Invercargill— Joyce (stroke), Worthington, Garitt and J. Clare. April 19. A sculling match for £25 a-side, over a three-mile course, has been arranged between Palamountain, who was second to Hearn in the Riverton regatta, and McKlay, who, through his scull catching against a post, was prevented from taking part in that race. The match takes place next Saturday.