FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9382, 8 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Wellington City election to-morrow. A big fight expected. Gas consumers reminded that Friday next is last discount day. Inaugural long-night Assembly dance at Castlechff on Thursday evening. The polo tournament at Hastings has been postponed till the 26th fust. A school of whales were disporting in the bay at Napier on Sunday. The public offices in the colony will be closed on March 17th, St Patrick's Day. Cabinet has decided to retire Constable Gieeson on compensation on account of old age. Pishing boats brought into Eussell Factory (Auckland) the other day 200 dozen mullet. , Dredging in Timaru harbour costs an average of 9Jd per ton. Last year 108,200 tons were lifted. The Wanderers' Bicycle Club, of Napier, has decided to affiliate with the League of New Zealand Wheelmen. It is understood that another telegraph line is to be constructed between Wauganui and New Plymouth. It is stated that the cost of applying the Westingbouse brake to the New Zealand railways would be £220,000. It is intended to float a company to work petroleum wells whichhavebeen discovered on the Cheviot estate. The Otago Acclimatisation Society has shipped 78, starlings per Talune, to be liberated in Ginps)a.nd. At the Foxton Cyoling Club's sportq on St Patrick's Day W, Staokwood i& placed on scratch in all the events he has entered for. Flounders of a very large size are at present very plentiful at Westport, and last week some very large hauls were made. Mr A. J. Cadman, Minister for Railways, has purolmsed a property and residence near Avondale at a price of about £2000. The services of the newly-formed rifle volunteer corps at Coromandel havo been accepted by the Government. When trying to save a dog from drowning in the Manilla River.New South Wales, a farmer named James James was carried down stream and drowned. The borough of Roslyn, Dunedin, is advertising for the services of a qualified inspector of maat and slaughterhouses at a salary of £200 per annum. A native village at Otakoho, consisting of 20 whares, was destroyed by fire on Thursday last. The whole of the natives, except two old women, were absent at a tangi. Building operations at the new railway station at the Marton Junction are now in full swing. Men are engaged in the formation of the road leading to Marton. A calf owned by a farmer at Manaia was tetherecVfiear a hivo of bees, and managed to upset the box, when the insects set upon the animal and stung it to death. It has transpired that a similar project to that of the Atmospheric Gas Company (the illuminant sensation now rife in Sydney) was formulated in Melbourne some years ago. - r Mr Joynt, principal of the Boys' College at Nelson, has tendered his resignation of the* 1 position to the governois, the same to take effect from tho end' of the present year. ' - ' ■' At Melbourne 41G complaints against F,oy and Gibson for neglecting to give their employees a weekly Jialf-h'oliday were heard.' The firm pleaded: guilty, and was fjnea £J2 6s. ' ' v• " 7 Jt is'statea in some of the clubs jn Londqn, s,ays the Londqn cqrrespqnd.ent of the Auckland Herald, that the Earl qf Dan: furly is about to resign the Governorship of New Zealand, Mauihera, a Wairarapa Maori, who has made several prospeoting trips in the Tararuas, is about to start for the frozen Klon. dyke, accompanied by another young native named Peter Cowan.