FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5236, 14 December 1883, Page 3

FLASHES.

*_ Did you ever hear a mountain's speak ? A baker ought to be a well bre(a)d man. What is the past ? A picture in the mind. An Art Student Society has been formed in Auckland. Denmark's merchant navy consists of 3.052 vessels of 249,465 tons register. The Auckland Freezing Company has bought over tho freezing machinery from the Triumph. As an inducement to young men, it may be said that a good wife is never a miss. The Governor presented the prizes at the Wellington college on Thursday. Mr Bradlaugh's latest move. — Appealing to the law to keep the Serjeant-at-Arms length. A man named Flannigan who cut his throat in the Auckland Hospital on Wednesday last has since died. About 19,000 persons are carried annually by the railroad which climbs to the summit of Mtr Vesuvius. The Hawera Borough Council have passed a resolution recommending the burgesses to vote a loan of. -65000 for the erection of gasworks. During the past six months 705S books have been published iv Germany. Of these 1000 arc educational, 780 treat of theology, and 219 are novels. A regulation has been gazetted to the effect that machinery used for boiling down and threshing shall only be inspected every two years. No wonder the colonies complain ! There is a French convict at New Caledonia sentenced to 153 years' hard labor, and after that 105 years', police surveillance. The Christchurch Chamber of Commerce have expressed indignation at the Government for not sending to the assistance of the missing seamen at the Auckland Islands and resolved to send a private steamer. Within ten days after the marriage of the Duke of Genoa and the Princess Isabelle of Bavaria, the young couple received over twenty thousand begging letters. The Dunedin Harbor Board have resolved to raise the dues on imports 70 per bail and on wool exported to 90 per cent. The lowest depth on the bar is 25£t. A man, having bought a thousand Havana cigars,j was asked what he was carrying. "Tickets to a course of lectures to be given by my wife," he replied. A Grocer's wife iv Auckland, named WilBon, tried to, commit suicide by swallowing the heads of three boxes of matches in water. A Yankee in New York has a dog so very serious that even his tail has not the least bit of a wag about it. The Industrial building, Land and InvestSociety have declared a dividend with bonus of 10 per cent. The demand for kittens' heads has become so important in millinery that cat-breedine is now a regular business in Paris. The directors of the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company have received applications for upwards of 10,000 shares, representing £50,000. A crocodile shuts its jaws with a force of 1540 pounds. If- you don't believe it, get in and weigh it when it comes down. Mr W. H. Vanderbilt, who is supposed to be the least generous of all American millionaries, is'proved to have quietly disbursed lastyear £60,000 to private charities. The inquest on the body of George Scott, of Lake County, showed that he and Thompson had a drunken squabbl.; from the injuries in which he died, but there was no foul play. Professor Swift offers 200 dollars to the discoverer of each comet during the present year. We may be able to avail ourself of this point some night when excuses for being out late run dry. It appears that the low price fetched for the meat by the British King and Catalonia was owing to there being divided agency, and one trying to sell before the other.