A Wrecked Career.
Ihs World ot the 13th March has the following sketch of the career of a gentleman well-known m Now Zealand : — " A younger brother of the successor to the title of the late Lord Melville has had a strange career. Many must remember Walter Dundas, reported but a few years ago one of the handsomest and winbomest men m London, and although over 6ft high, one of the best gentlemen riders m the army. He began his soldiering m the 60th Rifles, came to financial grief, sold out, and enlisted m the 17th Lancers.' So smart a cavalry man was he, that m an incredibly short time Colonel Dniry Lowe recommended him tor a commission, which he received m the sth Dragoon Guards, of which regiment he was for a time the adjutant. He exchanged into the 10th Hussars, where he found the pace too hard for him, and he succumbed to force of circumstances. For a while he was the sporting writer for a paper m Christchurch, New Zealand, but his habits became too irregular for this avocation, and when last heard of ho was slowly dying of consumption."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1703, 8 May 1886, Page 2
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192A Wrecked Career. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1703, 8 May 1886, Page 2
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