TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1461, 22 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per jnited press association. Auckland, Monday. Mr Flood, Secretary to the Auckland Club, died this morning from injuries caused by a fall.from his horse on Saturday. : i ii • • . . The officers of the local Volunteer corps have received from Colonel Whitmore, Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, a circular letter, drawn up respecting a fencing bout between Inspector Smith and Lieut. Woolfield, m the Waverley Hotel, which formed the subject of a recent inquiry. He severely condemns the incident as disorderly and injurious to discipline, and directs the officers to return to duty, as" it is the first pase of the kind ; but m any future case he will recommend the cancellation of commissions. The letter is to be published as a district order. Blenheim, Monday. The first annual report of the Blenheim Rowing Clifb shows -that the value of shfid and plant is £200. > The Club, has 78 members.. An inrigged racing four just built by Edwards, of Melbourne, for the. Club contains several improvements highly- spoken of by Australian experts. The 4 Club hqpes to. take part m the regattas at Wellington, Nelson, and Picton during the coming season, and. to organise a regatta on the Wairau River. Mr Dodson, M;H.R., is President New Plymouth, Monday. The wife of the Engineer (Mr Wray) of thfi waterworks, m dipping a bucket into the reservoir at noon to-day, slipped m and was drowned.. . '•...-.