FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9389, 16 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

" Two Little Vagabonds " at lh"e Oddfel lows' Hall this evening. Wanganui regatta to-morrow. Maori canoe races the events of the day. Coromandel is about to be lit up with gas.The profit from the late, Woodville race meeting will be about The trial survjy for a new line over the Rimutaka willbecommenoed next month. The Marine Department has decided to. blow up the wreck, of sthe Jtarque Waitemata near Tiritiri, Auokland. On Sunday last Yen. Archdeacon Govett completed fifty yeart' service in St Mary'i parish, New Plymouth, i A profit of £271 12s 6d was made out of the late show by the -Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The Wairarapa Lake has been so low lately that settlers were enabled to cross from one side to'the other on horseback. At Auokland 'G. A. Tyler hasbroken the world's record for 100 yds swimming, doing the distance in a little over OGseo. The North Otago Times hears that one Timaru miller has bought between 50,000 and 60,000 bags of wheat. Over 50 Austrians, en route for the northern gumfields, arrived at Auckland on Monday from Sydney by the Waihora. , One hundred miners bound for the Klon- r dyke were on board > the Mioweraj ,which arrived in Wellington on Satnrday. -"' None of the diggers 'possessed less than £100 ; some had a good deal more; ' The plans have been approved; and tenders ordered to be called for, for, the ereotion of a brick courthouse at : Palmorston North. ' - ._,„,. ,* The Cabinet hak decided not to grant Mr Jellicoo's application to'be allowed £o address the Executive Council 1 on behalf of Philpott. ■ „ - ( t.">' No less than ten " Klondykers "'left New Plymouth on Tuesday. New' Zealan d" will be well representad on the new El Dorado. ' '- ' :-,': -,' " Mr A. W. Lawson, oJ Wynyard, Tasmania, who netted £4500 over Tattersoll'a Newmarkef Handicap sweep, has been a confirmed'cripple all bis life. A medical witness appeared at tbe Syd- ' ney Police Court the other day the worse for liquor. He was sent to Darlinghqrst Gaol for a day to recover. , ' Typhoid is prevalent in Victoria^ At Maryborough jtour members of one family are down with the disease! ' Many deaths are reported.^ ' ' , ' t 'I* The estate of John Pritchard, a bntoher, of Fitzroy, Has jnst paid the tidy sum of " £10,059 as probate- duty into the Victorian Treasury. p - , i At his public examination. a Sydney bankrupt 1 assigned as' 'one reason io'r his • bankrupljey flic fact that he was " every-"" body's friend but his own." \ |V There has only, been an increase of five pnpils at the, New Plymouth High Sohool since jt was opened in 1888, in spite of a large inorease,of population. ( t - - It is; rumoured that District Court Judge ' Ward will disdharge the Suites of- a- Sap- ■> reme. Court Judge daring Mr Justice" Williams', absence in England. " - , Mr A.'O. i M"QLareri, of Smart's t team,o, i$ to be married this month to Miss Power, daughter of Mr Herbert Power, well known in Victorian racing circles. „, , • ' The plant for generating the. gas whioh is to be used to illuminate the railway can riagesin the Wellington, Hswke's. Bay arid Taranaki districts' is" expected .ttf-reaob; Wellington iff a few.daysj '" - - .'<■