FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9384, 10 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

It cost £10 to supply the Waipawa hospital with water last month. Usual monthly meeting St Andrew Kilwinning Lodge this evening at 7.30. The Cosmopolitan Club invites applications for the position of under-oustodian. The Wanganui representatives to the N.Z. Rifle Association at Oamaru left by the 7 train this morning. A profit of £50 was made over the school excursion from Masterton to Palmerston last week, A radish, 2Jlb, sweet and crisp throughout, was grown by an amateur gardener at Newtown, Wellington. The Lyttelton Times suggests that the death sentenoe passed on the wife-mur-derer Clements at Dunedin should bo commuted to penal servitude for life. The Police Commissioners hope to close their present Wellington sitting at the end of this week, and they will then go to Inveroargtll and work northward. One Oamaru orohardist has sent two tons of windfall apples to the Dunedin jam factory. This is part of Oamaru'3 contribution to the recent hurricane. Tho London Lancet says thai?" there is an absolute pathological identity in the symptoms of alcoholism and the condition of one madly in love." Mr D. Knight, who was so badly hurt by an accident at a railway crossing at Hawera, is so far convalescent that he took a short walk on Monday. John Conway, who had just returned to Bulls from the Wanganui 'Hospital, died oh Monday nigh,t. The. cause is believed to have been heart disease. It is rqnghly estimated that during the present season 2.30,000 sheep have been sent from Hawke's Bay to the West Coast yia the Pahiatua bridle track, P-. Gleeson, licensej of the Junotion Hotel, Da,nevirke, has beau fined £2 and costs 13s for allowing n, native Woman to obtain liquor on his premises. Tbe Sydney Bulletin premises that Oeo (TaranaHi) is the bnst named place south of the lino, You can't say it without spelling it, nor spell it without saying it — either baokwards or forwards, A Gisborne fruitgrower shipped 30 cases of fruit south tho other week, and received, after deductions for caitago, freight, commission, otc, the handsome return of Is 3d to reward him for his labour. Two Clutha tradesmen who signed the memorial stating that their businesses had fallen away since the enforcement of prohibition carry on the business of chemist (Mr Hutchins)and undertaker (Mr Barley) respectively^