FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9387, 14 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

— *.. — — . There were 479 visitors to the Museum last week. N.Z. Rifle Association meeting commenced to-day. Education Board monthly meeting commences this evening. The Police Commission opens at Dunedin on Thursday. ' Animal school excursion of Patea children to Wanganui to-moirow. Mr John Duthie leaves for England by 'Frisco mail boat on Thursday. A Blenheim telegram states that the steamer Opawa is still ashore at the bar. Someone advortised in the Christchurch Press the other morning for a " secondhand lady's bike." The owner of an umbrella, left at the Museum on Saturday, may have same on application to the custodian. The Government is sending some exhibits of New Zealand scenery to the Museum at Turin, Italy. A New Zealand Liberal Electoral Association was formed inWellington on Friday night. A Taranaki man named Girling was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for stealing onions. This season India exports a million tons of wheat, value teu eioies of rupees, lonndly £0,GG0,000. The directors of the Mastorton Technical School have decided to apply to the Government for £GOO for school building. No less than 30 deaths have occurred m Timaru withm the last fortnight from typhoid fever. Fitzgeiald Bros', circus finished its season in Wellington on Saturday night. The inland tour commences to-day. News has been received that the rebellion at tho Phillipines has been lenewed. The outbieak occurred at tho Isle of Luzon. Cabinet will consider within a few days if they will hoar Mr Jellicoo on Philpott's behalf. If not, the date of the execution will probably be fixed. As showing the low state of tho stock market, a line of fat ewes was sold in a public saleyard in the Manawatu district the other day at 2s Gd each. Twelve parents wero fined at Hunterville on Thursday last for failing to send ; their childien to tho Manga weka school the prescribed number of times. Five settlers were fined on Fnday at Masterton for failing to destroy rabbit 6on their properties. The fines amounted to £20, exclusive of costs in each oase. Sergeant Siddells at Danevirko on Thursday arrested a man named William Steel on a charge of having stabbed with a sheath-knife Peter Hommingsen. From all parts of Otago and Southland men, smitten with the gold fever, are packing up their traps and staiting off on the long journey to tho Klondyke goldfields. It is reported that in view of the feeling existing in Christchurch, tho Crown are likely to ask for a change of venue, so that the trial of Dr Russell may not be held in Canterbury.

J. W. Baggett, of Oak Grove, Fla., had an attack of the measles, nearly thrpe years ago, and the disease left him with very severe pains in the chest. " I thought I would die," he writes ; " but to my great joy, I was saved by Chamberlain's Pain Balm." Pains in the chest nearly always indicate the approach of pneumonia, and by promptly applying this linimeni on a flannel cloth, which should be bound on the chest, an attack of pneumonia may be prevented. It ia always prompt and effectual, For gale by R. M> Gatenby, Chemist,