The Akaroa Regatta.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5803, 17 December 1886, Page 4

The Akaroa Regatta.

The ever-popular meeting at Akaroa came off yesterday, and if fine weather, smooth sea, and exciting events can make a good meeting, that at Akaroa on Anniversary Day 1886 may be said to have set a record for comparison with those of future years. The s.g. Botorua, commanded by Captain R. Neville, was laid on to Akaroa by the Union Steamship Company, and proved equal to taking upwards of 400 excursionists a most enjoyable sea trip. She left the steamers' wharf at 8.15 am., and after a passage of unusually calm weather, reached the wharf at Akaroa at exactly noon, just in time, in fact, to see the first race pulled. The trip was not marred by any casualty, and the captain, officers, purser, and stewards all did their best to render it a successful one to the Company and an enjoyable one to those who made the journey. Several of the crews engaged in the pulling races went down to Akaroa in the s s. Akaroa, leaving Lyttelton at 3.15 p.m. the previous day. These reaped the benefit of a night's rest at Akaroa before pulling their races. Sailing Race (for decked or half-decked boats). First prize, £12 and Cup ; second prize, .£3. Emu (3 tons)— Joseph Huston 1 Wave (5 tons)— W. B. Tosswill ... 2 Una (5 tons)— E. S. Latter 3 Yacht Eace. First prize and Ladies'

Champion Flag ; second, JBS. Little Wonder (5i tons), Jamea Sinclair 1

Pastime (5 tons), M. Miller 2 Fleetwing (10 tons), E. J. Scott ... 3 Chance (7 tons), Black and Brown ... 4 Zephyr (7 tons), T. S. Baker 5 Cbntbe- board Sailing Eace, in open boats. First prize, .£6 ; second, £2. FAugh-a-Ballagh(W. Bullock) 1 Joker (W. Walton) 2 Double Sculling Eacb, in stump out-

riggers. First prize, £15 ; Becond, £5. Toi Toi (C.BC.)— J. Winterbourne (bow), Or. Wright (stroke), O'DonneU (cox) 1 Kea (C.E.C.)— E. M. Boulton (bow), J. F. Grierson (stroke) 2 Meteor (A.E.C.)--B. Wells (bow), J. Myera (stroke), E. East (cox) ... 3 Canterbury got rather the best of the start, and led tUI rounding the buoy, where the Kaiapoi men went to the front, and won a good race by lOsec, Avon a very bad third. Time— Bmin 15sec.

Sailing Eace, for boats not more than 30ft in length, first prize, -£12 and cup ; second, £3. Scud (26ffc)— Knudson 1 Edith Wynne (26ft)— W. H. Stewart ... 2 Paib-oabed Back in Stomp Outriggers. ToiToi (C.B.C.)— E Day (bow), A. Winterbourne (stroke), O'Donnell (cox) l Kea (C.E.C.)- E. M. Boulton (bow), J. F. Grierson (stroke), O'DonneU (cox) v .» 2 Meteor (A.E.C.)— T. Harrison (bow), J. ?tfveapnn (stroke) Sotted at 3hr 2min 19sec. Cure and

Canterbury rowed neck and neck, and Avon passing the Committee boat, put on a spurt, and almost caught the others, but Canterbury responding, went away with Kaiapoi, the two crews fighting it out, and finishing with two lengths only between the Cure Club boat and the Kea, Avon a good third. Time — 9inin 21aec.

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prize, £G ; second, £1. Kea (C.R.C.)— N. L. Macbeath (bow), P. W. Dunnage (stroke) 1 Takapuna (L.R.C.) — J. Donovan (bow), W. Sinclair (stroke), Sinclair (cox) 2 Toi Toi (C.B.C.)— F. Day (bow), J.

Bates (stroke), O'Donnell (cox) ... 3 ; Prom the start there was a pretty good I race to the turn, when the Canterbury boys, who pulled in much the best style, came away, and wbn somewhat easily by two lengths, a similar distance between second and third.

: Pair-oar, in stumps. ! Toi Toi (C.8.C.)— Day (bow), Winterbourne (stroke) 1 Kea (C.R.C.)— Boulton (bow), Grierson (stroke) 2 Meteor (A. E.G.) — Harrison (bow), j Stevenson (stroke) 3 i Double-sculling Back, in stumps. Toi Toi (C.B.O.)— Winterbourne (bow), Wright (stroke) 1 Kea (C.R.C.)— Boulton (bow), Grieraon (stroke) 2 Meteor (A.R.C.) — Harrison (bow), j Stevenson (stroke) 3 i Race. Little Wonder 1 Pastime ... ... ... ... ... 2 Fleetwing 3 I At 5 p.m. the steamer left the '. wharf on the return trip. The sea was ' smooth and the air warm during the run i home, and Lyttelton was reached at about twenty minutes to nine o'clock, after a capital day's sport.