TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 August 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PHK ASSOCIATION. 1 Git AND NATIONAL .MEETING. I ChristcliuroU, Tine Day. I Bright cool weather is prevailing for the second day of the Grand National meeting. Kcsults.— Hunt Club Cup.—The Mouse 1, Phainos 2, Oratonu 3. Scratched: The Brewer and Kingsway. Won by two lengths. 'Ihno oinin -I 3-<*>ecs. KILLED IX ACTION. Hastings, Thi* Day. Word has been received here that Acting Lieut-Col. tsehvyii Chambers, ol iHawkes 'Day Squadron ol the Wellington 'Mounted Ilifies, has been killed in action. He was tho eldest son of Mr Mason Chamibers, of Havelock North. Cablegrams have been received from Brigadier-General lluseel and Lieut Beanush that both are well. Nelson, This Day. News has been received hero that Captain James Houlker, officer commanding tho 13th Canterbury Regiment of the New Zealand Eorces, has been killed in action. &OOS BACK. Wellington, This Day. , The Maori troupe, numbering twenty, that wenfc to the Manama Exposition returned from 'I'riseo by the Marama to-day.

CEREBRC-SPIN AL MENINCms. J>auuovirku, This Day. in reference to the death of Private Robinson iu 'Dauiiovkiiß- Hospital; After .Minister of Defence had made a statement to a deputation in Wellington—"That the Dannevirko ease certainly was not one of cerebrospinal meningitis"—Dr McAUun, medical superintendent of Dannevirko Hospital, wired to the Minister for his authority for making the statement. Dr iUcAllan received the following reply; Sorry to say I was under a misapprehension about the Dannovirke case; it had been ■reported to me that it was not one of cerekro spinal meningitis.'