FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9367, 18 February 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

On Wednesday evening the Napier Borough Council voted the Mayor an honorarium of £250. Mr W. P. Walsh, of the Railway Department, has been tr.insf.ened fiom Hawera to Palmerstou. Mr D. Knight, the victim of the railway accident at Hawera, is progiessing satisfactorily towards lecovery. Tho opening of the Daneviike gasworks is to be celebrated by a banquet and a ball on the 24th inst. As the Westport coal i& the best steaming coal in the world, the Admualty have commenced to store this coal at Sydney for the use of the squadron. A Wakefield (Nelson) lady has just presented her husband with tiiplets. The Nelson Rifle Association has been lesuseitated, officers elected, and a committee appointed to draft rules. Mi Martin Baird has been appointed staiterfor tho Stratfoid race meeting. It is said that Mr J. F. M. Fraser will be appointed to the position of Crown Prosecutor in Dunedm. Gazette Extiaorchnary announces that Parliament has been pioiogued until Thursday, 21st Am.il. The amended regulations with respect to mortgages under the Government Advances to Settleis' Act 1894, aie gazetted. Maich23id, being the fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Otago, is gazetted a public holiday in Otago. It was admitted by a saw-miller in the Wellington Aibitration Com t that ke could make doois m Wellington and sell them in Chiistclnuch at a piolit. The Hon J. D. Ormoiid, after many yours' seivico on the Huwko's'Bay Education Boaid, intends declining fuither seivice after next meeting. Two lady rifle shots, Mesdames W. J. Welch and J. M'Hattie, will represent the North Wairmapa at tho coming New Zealand Rifle Association meeting. It is undei stood that Mr T. Lloyd, secretary of the Noimanby Horticultural Society, has received notice of fuither piosecution in connection with the art union. Last week, at Chustchurch, a man was detected m the act of sticking his knife into the tyres of two bicycles standing m a dooiway. The man wus attested alter an exciting chase. The fleecing works near Nelson are baid to be putting through between 1800 and 2000 sheep and 60 head of cattle daily. In Goi c one l eceut morning the temperatme wos lust lldeg below fieezmg point. Now, what Ananias told us this was summer, asks theexaspeiated Mataura Ensign. Acting under newly-conferred authority, the Bnsbane police laided Chmese stores the other day and seized quantities of opium.