FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8607, 25 July 1895, Page 3

FLASHES.

Bachelors' B»il at Oastleciiff to morrow evening. The Druids' Grand lodge open in session to vaorrovr at the Druids' Hall, Attractions this craning — Frances Boss Company, MoKecz'e concert, and Parliamentary Union. Look out for the new serial story — "Nemesis"; or "The Avenging Hand" — on Saturday. Camera Club's exhibition at Napier opens on the 2!Kh inst. Mount Cook, where the prison now stands, has been suggested as a most suitable place to build the Wellington Cathedral on. The invention of the typewriter ha« given employment to half a million women. A Dundee man is working on a flying machine thatii built on the bicyoleplan. Feed is v«ry scarce throughout the Woodville district this soacon owing to the cold autumn. Another new orchestral society is to be formed in Hawera— the«Havrera Insrramedal Society. The session is likal y td last till the middle of October at the earliest. It is stated that Sir Msnnce O'Borke proposes to visit England in the recess. It is said that Sir Robert Stout has been retained by Mr Jellicoe ia the case in which Sommervtlle is charged with the murder of Herbert, a contractor, at Blasterton. The Masterton Times says that all the local drapers hvre been charged with wickedly hanging their attractive wares outside their shops in each a tempting manner that weak-minded persons are thereby caused to covet and steal. The Wrstpc7t Times of last week says that snow is falling at Denniaton and skating is indulged in on tbe damThe required number of guarantors for a telephone exchange fit New Plymouth, having paid their dtpoiite, the exchange will b# established forthwith. Mr John McQueen chinks that it would pay farmers to sell their Sunday clother, to get money to support the Southland Meat Freezing Company. lheprecenk membership of the Wellington Row'iDg Club is 128. " I consider that life would be a failure ■without the women." — E. M. Bmith. The Wair&rapa Rugby Union has decided to send ft lemor team to play at Timaru on the 2lat, and Chrietchurch on fhe 24th of August. Aa effort will also be made to arrange a match with Wellington, before going South. Oscar Wilde did treadmill duty for a month, aud the remainder of his term bigmaking or ruling forma for the prison department will be his lrt. Newspaperdom oc the West Coast of Now Zealand has almost reached perfection. A copy of tho Buller Miner his just reached vi", in which the only i:em of news ia a short aiticle on ironworks. Tha rest of the space is devoted to advertisements. — Hawkc'fl Bay Herald. A considerable number of minors are leaving Beefton for the Auckland go'.dfiolds, the more regular employment, lower coat of living, and mildness of climate more than compeDsatiDg for tbo slightly higher soale of wages obtainable in the Inangahua. The Duchecs of Montroao left instructions in her will that her pearl necklace should be sold and the proceeds given to the poor in East London. The necklace which was formed of eight rows of 412 pearls, realised £11,503. "It is useless to nrgje with Prohibitionists, they are not amenable to reason, but time will teach them that abuse of Mr Seddon will not adranca tuair ciuse." — Temuka Leader. The man Rob9rt Cariyle, who rssaped about three months ago from the precincts of the Ashburton lock-up has been arrested. He had been in the neighborhood of Gore, and had been arrested down Soutn for some sort of depredation. ~r i Shares in tbe Waihi mine, £1 fully paid up, are now up to £8 2j Gd, aud hard to obtain even at that price. Q-rej mouth proposes to go in far another £60,000 loan and dredge a large lagoon for the berthage of vessels of 2300 tons and over, and h> ask the Government to guarantee the same 2} per cent interest. It is understood that Ihd Meeets Beetham hare disposed of the West Wangauui Block, Nelsoa district, 50.000 acres, to an English syndicate, which intends to out it up into email areas for settlement.