FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8584, 28 June 1895, Page 2

FLASHES.

Beard aohooli open on Monday. The Government defeated at the Parliamentary Union la«t night. Plaid and fancy dress bs.ll this evening at CaslleoKff. Quarterly hone fair at Messrs F. R. Jackson and Oo.'i yards to-morrow, commencing at 11.80 a.m. " Marriage : Is it a failure ? " at the theatre this evening. It is three years to-day since Sir Harry Atkinson passed away. Oats are rising — reportedthat they hare reached 1» lOd f o b. at Bluff. Olutha Leader reports sales of freezers at 50 per cent above late rates. It hu been suggested that the source of tho New Plymouth petroleum supply is in Mount Egmont.

Three boys in nelson for breaking into premises were sentenoed to terms of itnpriioßmeut ranging from lerea to fourtee« daji>. The Marquis of Queentberry want* the Treasury to reimburse him the £2000 that he expended in defence of the libel suit which led to the proaecution of Wilde. Oh, what a fickle, obanging tbiog Thif wintry weather is ! It blew, aiid snew, sn 1 then it mew, .Las' night, by jing, it fm. At Auckland a case is being heard in which William Oonrtney, of New Plymouth, leeks divorce. The retpondent and the corespondent, Francis Danvers, artist, are stated to be living in London. A passenger by the Tarawera from Napier to Gisborne was robbed of £15 lait week, while Mleep. Public abattoirs are recommended by the Wellington Corporation Inspector. Several charges against youth* for the heinous offence of snowballing will be heard at the Dunedin Police Court next week. It is probable that a Druids Lodge will be established in Hawera shortly. At the tfeilding Polioo Court on Saturday Adelina Robinson (Madame ZiDgar) was fined 20s or in default one week's imprisonment, on a oharge of unlawfully practising palmary. It is expected that some 60 or 60 delegates will attend the annual conference of the County Councils Association to be opened in Wellington on the last Tuesday in July. The building trade it said to be Terr brisk in Wellington. A writer in the Hawera Star thinks the. Department of Agriculture should take' steps to hare a supply of fresh seed potatoes for the district, in .consequenoe of the tubers being diseased. A man goffering from cancer en the tongue had the diseased organ removed, at the Q-reymouth -Hospital. The sufferer is progressing favorably. The Be?. O. US. Beeeroft, Wesleyan minister, was recently seized with a fit while Tisiting theTimara Hospital, and had to be put to bed in that institution. There are 40 factory managers at the Dairy School which has been opened at Edendaleby Mr Mo (Swan. Women in London, for making paper bags, receive 4d a thousand, for buttonholes 2d a dozen, and for shirts 2d each, the cotton being supplied by the worker. The croak of the raven alters not the flight of the eagle, do* should the taunts of the worldly turn the "pious out of thoir path to their inheritance. Commander Dallington Booth and his wife, -of the Salvation Army, renounced their allegiance to Queen Victoria in Jersey City on Hay 28, and beoame citizens of the United States. A Chinese proverb says j— " A hundred men nay make an encampment, hut it takes a woman to make a home." %£e*ar« Wood mjaA S£aTenl t SfewmUlen, of Ashurst, have scoured 1000 acre* of bush near Danevirke, and intend' erecting new mill there. The Batepayere Association, baying con« demued oartain aotions of the Palmerston North Borough Connoil, the Councilors rejigned in • body. A gang of prisoners reoently resumed the work of reclamation at Stioking Point, Lyttelton. The work has been left; uncompleted for a number of years. Over 100 grocers nailed meetings of their creditors in If elbourne during the month ot May. A Taieri fanner reoently had an average yield of 4T tons 12cwt of mangolds to the aore. Parts of the field were computed to yield 60 tons to the acre. What can Wangaaui produce f Potatoes have taken a deoided rife in Oamaru, where a grower has been offered 50s a ton for a large line dplivered in Sunedin. It is said that three members of a wellknown Auokland firm have made £10,000 out of share transactions since the present mining boom began. A subsidy of 20s in the £ for improvements effooted on agricultural show grounds and buildings is being advocated by the Hon. Mr Larnach. Mrs Sarah Jane Lett, of Wellington, is petitioning for a blook of land for her IS sons, who are unable to obtain remunerative employment. The boys -are New Zsalanders. Wednesday, the 7th August (Arbor Day), is to be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout the colony. A large Maori oven, over 160 years old, has been found under a large taws tree on the Levin State farm. As the result of the overhauling of the Hinemoß, a gain of nearly three-quarters of a knot in spsed is made, and a saving of two tons ot coal per day on the ordinary run at tVe original speed. The Napier borough schoolboys were taken the other morning for a paper chase (we are not informed whether the masters led). The elder girls also had a run, and enjoyed the fun immensely. There are many rules for merchants, But these two will suffice : Be diligent in business, And don't fail to advertise. News was seoeived in Napier on Saturday by the 'Frisco mail of the death in Ireland of the mother of the Bey. Father Grogan, of Napier. Much sympathy is felp for th» rev. father.

They do some things bettor in France The Paris police hava just arrested ■ ''deaf and dumb " mendicant who is «blo to speak five languages fluently. Mr Griff sn's biscuit factory and oonfeotionery works, Nelson, whioh were burned down some months ago, are about to be reerected, a yublio company hiring bnen formed to carry on the operations. Captain Butsell has deoided to retire from the turf. During the last two year* he has had very bad luck, hating lost the pick of his youngsters through different capses.' A warning : Frederick Moss, 24 years of •ge, had a tooth drawn a fortnight ago at Blenheim, and, not taking thfy ordinary precautions af tor «uoh operation, a gainful illness set iv, whioh wag supervened by erysipelM, and re-ulted fatally. A man named William Jones, aged 103, was lait week in Melbourne tent to gaol at a vagrant, He had no home and no friends, and had only recently bee a released from gaol on a similar charge. It is now stated, says the Otago Daily Times, that the proposal to present Mm Seddon with a thousand guinea? is a canard. Some members of the committee dftnv ail knowledge of it. .