LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1978, 9 January 1890, Page 26

LAND AND WATER.

At the Picton regatta the senior four-oared race was won by Wellington.

A Sydney telegram states that Peter Kemp, the ex-champion, is willing to row O'Connor, the Canadian, on the Parramatta. At the Lyttelton regntta on Saturday the Seuior Double Sculls was won by Kaiapoi, with Lyttelton second ; in the Junior Lyttelton was first and second ; Lyttelton was first aud Kaiapoi second in the Junior Pairs ; Maiden Pairs wai won by the Avon, with Canterbury second ; tho Single Sculls by Sinclair (Lyttelton), with Fautham (Kaiapoi) second ; the Madge won the Open Boat Race, the Secret the Fishing Boat, and the Hurunui's boat the Ship's Boat Race. The Lyttelton Club won £42, find Kaiapoi £36. The Lyttelton regatta on the Ist inst. had to be [postponed, owing to the inclemency of the weather. The first aud eecond-class yacht races were got off, and a couple of rowing events. The Pastime won the first-class yacht race, with Little Wonder pecond. They were the only boats which competed, as tho strong south-west wind and heavy sea proved too much for the other. The Neva and Crest were the only two which finished in the race for pecond-class yachts, and the Neva got homo first. In the rowing races, Kaicpoi won the senior pairs, with Lyttelton second ; and in the maideu aculls Lyttelton won, with Kaiapoi second. The £20,000 wbioh formed the principal pn'7,9 in the lottery bonds issued at tho commencement of the Paris Exhibition has been won by a machine minder at a printing office in the Rue de Fleurus. The lucky man has six olive branches, and on being interviewed declared that ho had bought tho winning bond as a Bpoculation, and that aoma days elapsod ere he discovered he had won the gros lot. Ho only looked up his bond when a comrade informed him that no one had come forward to claim the money, and he could hardly believe his own eyos when he saw that he had, by one lucky stroke of fortune, been raised to affluence.