FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 5488, 6 December 1884, Page 2

FLASHES.

Boys ! do not smoke. The average ' l|fe of a locomotive is only thirty years. ' The first prize of the Otago Angler's Association, went to Mr W. Fraßer, of Loyell's Flat, with a basket .of nine fish weighing I3lb 6oz. A cheese and dairy factory is to be erected at Waikouaiti. ', . Professor Black, of Dunedin, considers Lawrence to be the best place in New Zealand for a school of mines, as there, are plenty of specimens handy, and plenty. of pupils willing to join. 25,640 persona were carried by rail to Flemington on Cup day; The Duke and Duchess ef Connaughfc at« expected to visit Australia next year on their return fom India. Mr Thomson, M.H.R. .for Clutha, ia to deliver a number of political addresses during the winter. George Smith, of the London Merry | Rovers r ßicycle Club, lately made the fastest run yet — 100 miles in 7 hours 11 minutes.^ Hanlan has cabled from Australh to have two new racing shells built for him, whioh ' evinces an intention to make a long stay abroad. The Chriatchuroh Telegraph cautions the public to be careful about eating pork, and advises them to take the precaution of seeing that it is thoroughly cooked. At Rakaia even the stray cattle and horses cleared from the township on hearing the Salvation Army Band. They could not stand the musio (?), A young man sent twelve stamps to an advertiser to learn "how to make money fast," and was advised in reply to glue a five-pound note to the bottom' of his trunk. New Plymouth, with a population of be* tween four and five thousand, is not possessed of a single policeman. The last one was married on Thursday. Shocking— but untrue 1—" French .watering places? An abomination, sir! 'Why, I've been told of people bathing there 'In puris naturalibus 1' " "-Ah", I dessay !— and some of them not even that 1" — Punch. , /

Mr T. Pattle, who is to be station master at Ingle wood, was treated to a supper on leaving Sheffield, in Canterbury. Cambridge Cheese Factory will Boon be ready to start operations. The Premier has replied to the Nelson Chamber of Commerce, stating that duty would be imposed on boiled fruit, and importers could test the right to do so. If every woman had to wear her last year's * clothes to churoh, the cause, of religion would suffer.