FLASHES.
Anniversary tea of Wcsleyan Sunday School this evening.' * Mr District Judge Kettle left for Mastorton this morning. The arrivals in the colony last month were 1558, and tho departures 1856. A diamond brooch lost on the train yesterday afternoon between Feilding and Wanganui is adyeitised for. A son 'of Major Pyke, of Gishorne, got out of'bed and in attempting to open the window fell Out and fractured his skull, death resulting! ' Tliere are 1786 more spinsters in New Zealand than bachelors. In 1830 the census showed an excess of 12,339 bachelors over spinsters. In a few days 100 men will be employed jn carrying out additions to the Parliamentary puildjngs in Wellington. Work will be carrjed. on nfght a.pd (jay. Thp now isgtie o.f postage sfainps js expected to eomo into use on the Ist prox, A raid was made on a Wellington hotel on Saturday night. A prosecution will follow. The. Brisbane Exhibition organ has been plocsd Under offer to a Melbourne resident for £3000, The instrument originally oost £5000. An advertiser in a contemporary wants to exchange a high-grade lady's bicycle for " second-hand " pony and gig. Window breaking has been going on in Palmerston for the past two or three Weeks, and it is estimated that it will take between! £30 and £40 to replace the broken glass, '
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9394, 22 March 1898, Page 2
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