FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9390, 17 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Concert m St. Mary's Hall this evening. " Two Litilo Vagabonds " at tho Oddfellows' Hall this evening. Annual meeting Wanganul Chamber of Commerce on Monday at 7.30 p.m. Dance at the Castlecliff Public Hall this evening. Tr&in leaves town at 7.40. Dr Saunders of Wanganui is attending the Medical Congress at Wellington. There were 2017 men employed on cooperative works under Government departments during February. Wellington Benevolent trustees are considering the question of starting a baby farm, owing to the increasing number of infants coming into their hands. The Government has decided to proceed with tho erection of police stations at Opunake and Manaia. A gumdigger named Alexander De Noon has hanged lumsolf at Aoroa, Auckland district. A native was, at Opunake on Friday) fined £2 and costs (or total of about £3 ss, for supplying liquor to a female Maori. The amount voted by the Justice Department for the defence of Philpott in the Silverstroam murder case was only £10 10s. bettloment on the State Farms near Taihape is progressing. The settlors have felled 1500 aores of bush, some of which was excellent milling timber. A lad named W. Coffey had his collarbone broken and shoulder dislocated through a filly he was exeroißing on the Hawera training track falling with him. An old man named George Clayton, suffering from cancer, poisoned himself with .1 solutien of match heads in the refuge at Napier. Another summons has been issued at Christchurch against Dr Russell on a charge (of procuring abortion) similar to that for which he is at present out on bail. Madame Amy Sherwin is attracting such large audiences in Christchurch that she has found it necessary to extend her season there by giving three extra concerts. According to an Auckland matrimonial notice, " a large number of highly respectable females (some with means), ages from 20 to 50, seek life partners."