The Wanganui regatta was held last Thursday, and proved very successful. Crews from Napier Rowing Club, Welling ton Rowing Club, and Star (Wellington) Boating Club were present. The Unions (Wanganui) won the two senior four-oared events, the Stars annexing tha Maiden Fours and the two Junior Fours, Wel lingtons securing the Pairs and the Double Sculls. The amounts won were— Stars. £2(j; Wanganui Unions, £24; and Welliugton, £l7. A great amount of in terest was evinced in the Senior Outriggcd Fours, and after a great race the Unions defeated a strong crew from the Wellington Rowing Club’s shed by a length. Crews from the Napier Rowing Club and the Wanganui Rowing Club also started in this event, but (to quote the somewhat cruel remarks of the Wanganui morning paper) “they finished some time later in the afternoon.”

The Otago Rowing Club have made a start with their last event of the season, the Double Sculls. The first heat was rowed this week and resulted in Leckie and Statham beating M‘Queen and Munro. T. W,

THE PRIEST MURDER IN SOHO.
The trial concluded on January 23 at Draguignan, in the department of the Var, of the man named Victor Robello, on the charge of having murdered and robbed his master, the Abb-' Gabrieli Segui chief chaplain of the army of the Argentine Re public—in London about two years ago. Robello, who was a French emigrant to Buenos Ayres, accompanied the Abbe Segui on a tour to Europe as his man-servant. Segui was found dead in a hotel in Soho, having apparently committed suicide by hanging. Certain circumstances, however, gave rise to the suspicion that he had been murdered, but for a time no trace could be found of the assassin.
