AUCKLAND SHIPPING.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 119, 26 February 1872, Page 2

AUCKLAND SHIPPING.

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4 nr st-amship Nevadasails for Honolulu I io-tliiy al 4 ]).m. She lake:- with her ;i huge eaigo. cunsis.'ng of wool, II" \t.. aml a fair comp ' m«jji( of pas engers. H.M.S. Inuiic'io took her d-pr Hire for We I !' iigi<_>ii vestcrony. SCHOONER RACE. Our ow.i comspondent al Am-kb nd supplies us with ti:e fo'lo’v' ig ;.crnuiit of a ,schooner '■;’ee which look place at. Auckland on Saturday last, between the i.chonncis Xo Xoba and ('and.' : a. Tlie cor se was from the wharf, down round ’l": '. and back to the wha.f. Ti e-ace was for K'2~> asule " Today t.ic long-t;'lked-of race between the Auckland-buiit schooner Xo Xoba. ow cd by Air Kbboiii and the Mu s.s X’ccol (her builde.s). and the ('; .nb:\a. a ]! lush Columbia built 1 >at. and ow ted by t.'ajitain McKenzie, of \Y- '[hi. The race has been looked fo w: d to w'th a conside.abh: amount of ; dv.esi, f oni the fact that at the la.-, iegai.uii was hebeved by a very laige number of pe sons that the Cauib ia would have won the ti.st race had she not lin'ortunately gone on the tint rock at Ti 4 hi. The day was an exec 1 lent one to te.-t the sail ins; ottalities of the boats, there hung a ih’c.'li E. and X.E. breeze blowing. 'I lie bettmg was'to 1 on the Camb"ia. which however, shortly after the start was reversed Al Sh. I’m. lA.ee. th" sta. t was made, the Camb; hi 1 ring the lirsl lo tret under wav. staudhig (low n ihe ha.rbnur along tbe South shore. The Xa N>,ba made a slio;, board, and then worked down to the Heads under t! ‘ North Shore, and rounded the Heads I'd | and a !i:i ' imotiles before the Cambria. On 1 roruding th- Heads the Xo Xoba got a good | K. w' id. which ear led her to the wlndwiirdi

of tbe Frenchman's (hij>. The Cauib : a took a X.X.l'l. w' u! al r rounding .he Jleads.lmt managed m pitch olf the Wade. 'lhe Xo Xoba was then about. I.', ndle i windwa dof | the (Jamii. ia. and .' landing th oitgh the T‘. i 4' ri passage. At IJtnthe Cambria was ju.-l 1 half way through the passage, a u! the Xo j Xoba was noticed eotriug round the X X. j end of 4b i. .beading away for Auckland, i The Camb.la,rceiug 11n t there was no chance ! I left of winning the race, [cut about and also 1 made for Auckland. The Cambrir, passed j tlm wharf at Hit. dm. ft and the Xo j i Xoba (the winner) at i!h. -4 m. :! 1. ee. This • i is the second ;ace that the Xo Xoba has won j over the same course, within tbe la-t two , j months, and it is plea-' lg lo see that onr | | Auckland built vesse’s are unite able to hold j | their own against vessels coming from foregu I j ports, boaslijg of their faol*\ lllbg ' o/.ts.