A MOTOR BOAT RACE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 February 1909, Page 4

A MOTOR BOAT RACE.

FROM AUCKLAND To KI'SSKI A.M.) BACK.

[BY TEI.EGKAPH-—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, I'VI) 2. NVli.it is considered locally to he the longest beftit raw .yet held' in Australasia, was contested between Mr If. If. A.lam's Eliza ami Mr .1 lull's Si-abird. Th.' i Mins.' was fii,in Au.-Man,l t.. Russell ami back, a distance nf 240 knots. The boats loft Auckland al 7.50 a.m. yesterday The Eliza, which 1.-. l throughout, pass«-,| Id,, half-way mark at Ruvcll at 10.50 yesterday evening, having taken exactly 15 hours (an average of 8 knots) to do the 120 knots. The sea increased -really on the run home, the boats taking a 1..1 of water aboard. Auckland Harbour was reached at 2.25 this afternoon bv the Eliza, The whole journey occupied 30 hours 35 minutes, tin. average running rate being approximately 8 knots. The Scabird rounded tho mark at Russell 48 minutes after tinEliza. Captain MeLeod, of the Northern Steamship Company's Clansman, who navigated tho Eliza, .said at (nit; time he felt like stopping and running for shelter. He considered th.' boat a wonder to get through on th,' return journey. The race arose out. ..f the Rudder Cup Contest (105 knots), in which the Seabird made the fastest time, the Eliza being one of the defeated om])et it iors.