AQUATICS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9331, 23 January 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

AQUATICS.

YACHTING. (Notks jiy Topmast.)

Several of thu yachts have been out this Week. On Monday evening I noticed Anonyma, Loader, and Muritai going down the bay, there at the time being a fresh W.S.W. breeze, causing the yaelits so sail under easy canvas. The two first-mentioned ran down us far as MiGray Russell's and kept well together till the bend in the harbour near No. 3 red bciicjn; here the Muritai joined in, and an interesting race ensued, which ended slightly iv the Leader's favour. The Anonyma was greatly handicapped through having a dingey in tow, so that, under tlau circumstances, the other two had nothing to crow over. I understand that our well-known citizen, Mr S. S. Myers, has purchased the yacht Anonyma. Yachtsmen will hail this piece of news with delight, as Mr Myers' enthusiasm in the sport cannot fail to be advantageous to yachting in our harbour.

I am glad to notice that the Naval Brigade's schooner is now receiving a much-need overhaul. Last week she was on the hard for a day or two, and this week has had her masts scraped, and with the assistance of a coat of black paint on her topsides, presents a much better appearance. Those who have undertaken the work deserve the thanks of the whole company, and it is to be hoped that the start now made will encourage other members of the brigade to lend a helping hand, as there is a lot of urgent work required to be done before the boat is thoroughly in order. Ere these notes reach you, the first Championship Regatta, hold under the auspices of the recently formed New Zealand Yachting Association, will be a- thing of the past. I learn that Mascotte, Maritana, and Mim.i are the only three likely to start for the LIOO prize and the honour of holding the championship for the colony in the first-class event. These three boats met at Wellington last year, and the crack Lyttelton yacht just managed to win, so that an interesting and exciting race may again be looked for.

The crack second-class yacht, Jessie Logan, is to be offered for sale, by auction, on Monday, 25th inst., at Wellington. She is considered to be one of the fastest crafts of her size afloat, and was built in Auckland by Logan a few years ago. The Jessie is 4- tons rating, and has a brilliant record, having won 16 out of 18 races. Her sails and gear are all in good order, and if she finds a purchaser here, would prove a valuable acquisition to our Mosquito fleet. There appears to be a prospect of a visit to our shores from one of the large yachts which now and then extend their cruises beyond the limits of European waters. The steam yacht St. George, R.Y.S., is, however, likely to visit our shores. She is a three-masted topsailyard schooner of 831 tons, yacht measurement, with triple expansion engines, capable of steaming 10 knots. She is on her maiden trip, and was built at Leith. She left England on the 19th January 189 1, having on board her owner and a party of six friends, and a crew of 45 all told. The first place touched at was Gibraltar, thence to Malta, where a stay of a mori'th was made. Alexandria was reached on the 10th March. A 10-days' steam across the Indian Ocean in a perfect calm brought the yacht to Colombo on the 6th April. A stay of a month was made at Ceylon while repairs were being made to the engines. Singapore was reached on the 15th May. Hongkong was the next port, then Canton. Japan was made on the 17th June. The yacht was docked at Yokohama, and on the 20th August a start was made across the Pacific to Vancouver, which was reached on the 14th September, 26 days being occupied on the trip both steaming and sailing. It was then intended to visit San Francisco, then the Sandwich Islands, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, returning Home through the Straits of Magellan or round the Horn.

The Field says:—"An opinion recently expressed by Judge Cowan in an American court whilst trying a running down case has a good all-round application. The facts of the case were as follows: —The sloop Amelia, 38ft water line, and 15ft beam, was beating down the Hudson River ou a bright, clear night with her side lights in place and ' burning brightly.' Three hands were ou deck, looking out, when she met a tug, the crew of which also saw the sloop. She, however, steamed on and struck the yacht on the starboard bow, sinking her, and three of the passengers on board were drowned. The pilot who had charge (the commander of the tug being in his cabin asleep) was found guilty of manslaughter by the jury who tried the case, and Judge Cowan, in discharging them, made the following strong vomarks : — 'It is a crying evil that on our streets and on our waterways the rights of the weak are utterly disregarded by the strong. Big tugs on the rivers run down little pleasure boats, and big carts in the streets run over men, women, and children utterly regardless of their lives. After imperilling the lives of citizens who have a perfect right to be where they are, these big fellows turn and laugh at the fright their reckless brutality has caused. The river is broad at the point where the defendant ran down this pleasure party. There was no other party in sight, and there was plenty of room for the tug to have given way to the yacht. Your verdict, I hope will prove a very salutary lesson to all pilots on our rivers.'"

IT RECALLS THE BLIZZARD,

In March 1888 the great blizzard in America almost extinguished the city of New York. The like of it was never before seen. The snow completely stopped all local traffic. Not a horse or a wheel could move. All the telegraph lines leading into the city were prostrated, and for two or three days the people of Boston and New York communicated with each other by way of London by means of the'Atlautic cables. Thus messages intended for persons 300 miles distant were sent 6000 miles, crossing the ocean

twice,

An incident which recalls this experience to tho writer's mind happened a short time ago in England. Suppose we let the gentleman interested tell his own story. He says:—"l h:ive suffered more or less from indigestion and dyspepsia all my life. I had a bad taste in the mouth, pain after eating, a poor appetite, and sour stomach. My tongue was coated, and my mouth constantly filled with a watery fluid. No matter what I ate, however light, it disagreed with me and gave me pain, I had fullness of t:ie chest, and pain at my side, with a miserable low, dull feeling. From time to time I consulted a doctor who gave me medicines, but

hey did very little good. The doctor said that ho coating of my stomach was disordered, and he mucous membrane was inflamed. In L 377

1 received a pamphlet from New York telling of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, aud of the extraordinary cures it had dfected, so I procured a supply and after taking the first I felt better, and by the time I

had taken four bottles more, I was completely cured, and have been in good health, as regards the indigestion, ever since. Having studied the practice of herbs for manjr years, I was

in the habit of treating people for erysipelas and other complaints, and was frequently consulted by people in the district, so

after my remarkable euro I was so impressed with tho merits of Seigel's Syrup, that I procured a large supply of the medicine, and recommended it to all who were suffering, and jeoplc came from far aud near for it. 1 may mention that on a Sunday my house was beseiged by miners from Coal Pit Heath, and others from a distance. On every hand I heard nothing but the loudest praise and of the cures it effected, and the fame of this medicine was spread throughout the West of England with no other advertising than one party telling another of the benefit they had derived from this wonderful medicine. I wish every one to know of this, and if by publishing this statement it will help others who may be suffering as I was, it will afford mo pleasure."

The letter from which the foregoing is an extract is signed Moses Godwin, Old Sodbury

(Sodbury), Glos, aud is dated April 9, 1891. Ha is a farmer.

The reader will notice that while the headquarters for the sale of Mother Scigul's Syrup is universally known to be in London, by a strange chance Mr Godwin's first information concerning it came from America, 5000 miles away, which recalls the incident of the

American blizzard above narrated, and also shows that the fame and usefulness of this medicine extends to all civilised countries.

Mr Benjamin Edgerton, grocer and provision dealer, Plat lane, Whixall, Whitehurch, Salop, says: "While living with Blr Roberts, Feus Wood Farm, I first began to feel a dull heavy weight at my side, and noticed a bad taste in the mouth with foul stomach and uncomfortable feeling after eating, I had no appetite, and when i sat down to the table I could not touch the food. I had a good deal of pain and noise in the head, and could not sleep for it. I was not fit for heavy work, and could only do light jobs about the farm. After cutting a hedge I would go quite faint aud had to sit down, and felt so much depressed I could

have cried. Having been always such a strong man, I took it badly to be reduced to such a weak state. I took all kinds of physic and saw a doctor, but his medicine only eased me for a bit, and then I was worse than before. I went on in this way for over a year, when a servant that came to live at Mr Roberts' told me of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Syrup. She bad heard a gentleman talking absut it in the railway carriage, aud be praised it so much that I "thought I would try it. After I had taken two bottles my food did me good and I gained strength, and by persevering with the syrup I soon got as strong as ever, aud have never ailed anything since."

— A German professor brought from Japan 10 years ago some sprigs of the lacquer tree, from which the natives produce the famous lacquer work. The trees have now grown to the height of 30ft. It is proposed to plant them in different parts of the German Empire, and to import a Japanese to teach this artistic industry. — It is a little curious that all sealskins are still dressed in London. Many efforts have been ■ made to successfully finish them in America, but all have failed. The secret of the famous English process is still carefully guarded,