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New Zealand Mail, Issue 17, 20 May 1871, Page 12

The University Boat Race. —The following telegraphic summary of the Oxford and Cambridge boat race appears in the San Francisco papers:—The Oxford crew chose the Middlesex side. Both made a splendid start. The Cambridge took a slight lead at the start, and maintained it throughout. The tide was slack water. The race was well contested. The Cambridge took their opponents’ water at Barnes’ Bridge, and beyond it Oxford spurted slightly and decreased the distance. The time was twenty-three minutes and a half second ; distance, three lengths. There were the usual crowds and excitement, and the city was emptied of people and vehicles. The last betting was two to one on Cambridge. The Nebraska. —The “ Press ” says that the Bteamship Nebraska, the second of the Webb-Holliday line of mail boats, was appointed to leave San Francisco on the sth May, and if she makes an equal passage to that of the Nevada, may be expected to arrive at Auckland about the end of the present month. She will not come down the coast, but will go to Sydney direct from Auckland. Unintentionali. —Recently a clergyman in Victoria, who was reading ‘himself in’explained to his new congregation that having labored successfully at Murderer’* Flat he had been promoted to Kilmoro.