FLASHES,

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9392, 19 March 1898, Page 5

FLASHES,

■» MixQri Sanoe r'acei.this afternoon. Wf"ls,tfn #irflda£ School anniversary services to-morrow. Miss Hatherly will, it is understood, shortly givo two concerts in Wellington Annual meeting Chamber of Commerce on Monday at 7.30 p.m. at B.C. Chambers. The sum of £16 has been remitted to Dr Barnardo from Fordell. The recent ooncert there realised j£G 5s Cd. There ta a possibility that Mr George fisher, Oho of tho mfimbei's foi 1 Wellington, will resign his seat shortly. v TJie BltHatb. ChaWber of Gommorce has put.in its claim for the right of that town to be 4' railway terminus. ! 15 oases of typhoid have been admitted drifnig the past fortnight into the Auckland hospital. There are now 51 cases under treatment. A young girl named Frances James, it is alleged, set fire to her employer's house atPackenham, Victoria, ten times without burning it down; On one property near Hastings the lightning on-Mpnday night struok three pine treea, each completely asunder. The.Nolscn Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club has now seceded from the New Zealand Cyclists' Alliance and joined tho League of New Zealand Wheelmen. A farmer in the Albury (Canterbury) district olaims to have the record minimum yitld of wheat— a small paddock of his has threshed out only 401 b per acre. A deposit of £10 has oeen forwarded (o Auckland to make a match between Donald Dinnie and August Carlson, of for the athletic championship. Mr Ji. A. Haggon, formerly of the Woodville Examiner, is at present rUilntog the Golden Era, a paper publiGhed iv thy . town of Goidehj on tho Canadian-Pacifio railway. ; Home and Johhstoni tHbutore at the ',400 ft love! of the Kapanga mihe,',Coromandel, have secured 200lbs of specimens ■ und SOlbs piftked stone, of the estimated - ValtiS of £1000. • ' Li • ■ - .-* -nri-i I