TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1277, 1 July 1886, Page 2

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

5 Death of an M.H.R. ' Thames, July 1 t William Rowe, forrrmrly MrH'rtTT’fl this d , stpict'"dte3 > thiß morning. ! Clydesdales. Auckland, July 1. i John Boag, Burnsic'e Stud, Chrhl , church, has purchased two highclae Clydesdale fillies from the New Zaalan Stud Company. Recognition of Merit. Wellington, July 1. Colonel McDonnell, who recent; received the New Zealand Cross for act' of bravery In the Maori War, had receiver: by this Frisco mail a congratulatory lettei from General Cameron, under whom he served General Cameron says ho cannot conceive anyoue more justly entitled to it than Colonel McDonnell for undertaking a reconnaissance which took him in the midst of the Maoris from whom, had he been taken, he could expect no mercy. He continues that McDonnell and that gallant officer Von Tempskey gave proof of that cool deliberate kind of courage which is so much more rare than the bravt ry displayed in heat and excitetdlnt of battle and which is more frequently recognised. Wreck of the Lyttelton Timabu, July 1. Judgment will be given in tha Lyitelton wreck enquiry to-morrow morning,