FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5100, 30 June 1883, Page 2

FLASHES.

A freeze show — Ice cream. The latest thing in cradles— The new baby. Few women are blessed with the, gift of occasional silence. ;' J. Downey, of Glasgow, late of the Fen* gum, has been drowned at Auckland. The Grey mouth Borough Council are in want of a bridge at Cobden. Fears are entertained for the brig Moa, which left Dunedin on the 23rd May for Kaipaia. The figure of Britannia first appeared on the coin of the realm in the reigu of Charles 11. Mrs M. — " Ob, you must see my- cabinet of curiosities. I'm awful partial to brickbats 1" A statistician estimates that 50,050 of the residents of Glasgow, go to bed intoxiorted almost every Saturday night. A man named Yorke, was nearly crushed to death between the wharf at Auckland and the steamer Coromandel. In the Kelson divorce case, Thompson v. Thompson and Watt», the jury found a verdict for £100 damages, and His Honor granted a decree nisi. Costs not decided. It is estimated that the monthly receipts j of eggs in New York are 60,000 barrels of 70 dozen each, which would make the annual egg trade of the national metropolis aggregate over 50,000,000. Tho lonic will not sail till Tuesday next. She has ou board 9584 sheep (the average weight of each being 671bs), and two trout for the editor of the Land and Water. She will probably take 3000 more carcases at Lyttelton. Seek not proud riches ; but such as thou maye3t get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly ; yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them. Quills are things that are sometimes taken from the pinious of one goose to spread the opinions of another. Argument has been heard in the Supreme Court case Johnston v the Land Board at|Dunedin, and His Honor has reserved judgment. The man who looks forward to benefits through the will of a relative, sails through life on a dead reckoning. They are fortunate in Christchurcb. Of twelve samples of milk, eleven were unadulterated, and the other had 20 per cent, of water. An equestrian group of all tho commanders in the late Egyptian campaign is being painted by Chevalier Desanges. The Pyramids in the background localise the scene. A movement is on foot in Christchurch to put the city on an equal footing with the other chief cities in tho way of endowments. A little boy had been sent to dry a towel before the nursery fireplace. " Mamma, is it done when it is brown ?" he asked, when the to A' el began to smoke. Mr Ross (in whose hands the big dredge at Dunedin has been placed) reports that it did an hour's work without anything to show for it. He hopes well of it, however. A heroic and noble man's first thought when his house took on fire recently was for his mother-in-law, whom he saved from a burning staircase by promptly throwing her from a three-storey window.