THE INTERPROVINCIAL REGATTA.

Evening Star, Issue 4039, 5 February 1876, Page 2

THE INTERPROVINCIAL REGATTA.

1 . .TothtJSdiMK •r • • '• v,'M -Sib,—l dontt,jknow N th&t' "Fair iEJw-If** attack onjhe Otago £o«i «»<3tah indyour iciroe .of. .last iftr »®o«Wly. w%re,|f. not tTi»tn din Who take

tadeen part in the late regattas, -.might bs led td ‘ vf ?. ver y wfair view of the action of the allowed to pa ai . uncoE itradicted. • To atari with the TJmod hnv Isis, nor could they as the fcunedia Club’s wa>ra> (which is considered quits aa good'a boat) their .disposal if toey could have sat iher j, ihiit that they were no good out of taew own boat Was well knoWhy’ahd was clear iy v own.by the way they Were bsateu by the Ex- celstor cre.w when , they tried the to utn, In’consequence of which.they gavd up t !he<> idea- cTf ( ‘taking her, and stuck td oi vq. boat. ’lf the tune - they Lad foil trauwng '.-was, qofc, sufficient for them to get aj abatswing, fort&rifoi .thqjr.ooivd ; neve* mvia d« me any good in 'an outrigger, , Infacfci I undeiratand this was adiiiitte'd by their trainer, who declined to go out with them in ad ter with his clothes on. . ■’H» T crpw chosen by the public to represent the i re wince and at ml likely to hayedqneany good ha r| asked the lopn of the Otago, and bad satisfies i the Club that they had. the means of taking. herto Wellington and back without ths nsk ,of betng X hayh no doubt theft request ‘wicrald have received every reasonable consider! dion } but as it is I thick the Club may safe ly leaVeifr to the public to say whetbet it is any shame that they declined, under - such circum* dances, to allow the Union crew the use of t the<otago.~l am, &c.., •.•XXV.i-.'k.O'i j tv j- ti i- ‘ * Batswinq. t Dunedin, Fehruary S,. ;