AQUATICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 861, 6 September 1906, Page 11

AQUATICS.

(By “The Reefer.”)

The social given by the Royal N.Z. Yacht Squadron on Friday was perhaps the most successful function of the kind yet held in the Squadron rooms. These were very tastefully decorated for the occasion, and the attendance was a very large one. A good musical programme was gone through, while Mr. Winklemann’s yachting pictures were much admired.

Mr. W. Coleman has been re-elected president of the Auckland Rowing Club.

It is rumoured there is a possibility of Auckland being represented after all at the intercolonial race for the La Carabine Cup in Melbourne. It is to be hoped that this may prove to be the case, for an intercolonial championship yacht race without an Aucklander in it suggest Hamlet without the ghost.

The social evening given by the N.Z. Power Boat Association on Thursday evening proved a very successful function. Some two hundred members and friends were present, the evening being devoted to progressive euchre and dancing. The Albert Hall was most lavishly decorated, especial attention in this respect having been devoted to the supper room. The disciples of Terpsichore kept the fun going until an early hour in the morning, and appeared to thoroughly enjoy themselves.

The English swimmer Burgess put up a great performance in his seventh attempt to swim the English Channel. After being in the water for 18 hours and swimming 40 miles, or nearly double the distance between Dover and Calais, he had to abandon the attempt owing to cramp. He was then within four miles of Calais.

An international maritime exhibition, in celebration of a century of

steam navigation is to be opened at Bordeaux, France, on May 1, 1907, under the auspices of the League Maritime Francaise. It is proposed to keep the exhibition open for six months. Exhibits of all industrial, agricultural, or artistic products pertaining to maritime affairs will be received from any part of the world, and pavilions will be specially devoted to ocean geography, nautical motors, and aerial navigation. Congresses, competitions, and lectures on nautical subjects are to be organised.