LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3014, 22 February 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

February 15. There is every probability of a match being made for Wallace Ross to row either Trickett or Laycock for £1000 aside on the Thames. Considerable sensation has been created by the announcement that Ayoub Khan has again declared war against Abdul Rhamon, the Ameer of Cabul. The relations between Greece and Turkey are strained to the utmost, and war is regarded as imminent. General Roberts has been entertained at a banquet in the Guildhall, London. There was a brilliant company. In respondingtotbe toast of hishealth General Roberts spoke at some length upon the organisation of the British army, which he said was in many respects defective. Its great fault was that it was absurdly small, and a more manly stamp of a soldier was required. They wanted men. The boy soldiers drafted into the army were a failure.

order of merit: B. Peterson and Co., Chistchurcb, for silver jug and cups; John Alveo, Dnnedio, for model of patent steel tramway. Third order of merit: Marcus Sandstein, Christchurcb, for silver epergne ; Buschell, Jannay and Co., Christchurch, for paper pulp, etc, from New Zealand flax. Fifth order of merit: Jobn B. Stausell, Christchurcb, for half stuff and papier inache, etc., from New Zealand flax. Honorably mentioned: Reid and Duncan, civil engineers, Dunedin, for plan of wire rope railways. February 22.

Arrived, P. and 0. Company's steamship Brindisi, with the inward Suez mail. Owing to a misunderstanding, Swan, of New Zealand, and Baker, have retired from the six day's walking contest which ia now proceeding.