FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9395, 23 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

+ _ Kaiernu footballers reminded of practice in Drill Hall this evening. To-day is the 50th anniversary of the ariival of the first colonists in Otago. Meeting Collegiato School Old Boys' Association at Chavannes' Hotel to-night. The Oxford crow is favourite, at 7 to 4, for the University boat race. The Victorian Governor and his wife have departed on a visit to England. There nre at present over 400 lunatics in the Auckland Asylum. A movement is afoot to establish a district high school at Tapanui. Largo numbers of swaggers are travelling the East Coast district. Miss Knapp will not take up her duties at the Wanganui Girls' Colloge till June. The Athletic Ciicket Club on Saturday won the Nolson Association's Championship. Two hundred calvos were sold in Greytown tho other day at two shillings per head. The overland cable in Australia has been interrupted at least thirteen times already this year. The poll taken at Woodville on Monday for the rating on nnimproved values was carried by seven votes. The licensee of the Star Hotel, Wood ville, was fined £3 and 11s costs on Friday for Sunday trading. Mr D. M. Logan, Customs officer at Dunedin, died suddenly in the exhibition building yesterday. Tho Post says there is reason to believe that the extradition proceedings in the Orpon case will fail. Another stallion has beon stabbed at Christohurch. The animal was the property of Mr Lewis, M.H.E. The Medical Association has chosen Dr Scott, of Onehunga, President for next year. The crops m tho Marlborough district are exceptionally good, and the season is said to be the best known for many years. Tho Minister of Education has definitely refused to sanction the establishment of a High School at Wostpovt. At an auction sale in tho South Island the other day a pen 6{ sheep was sold at Is per dozen. Annual College sports next Saturday. Ec-union of " old boys " at Metropolitan Hotel in the evening. The insurance companies at Auckland i paid Paltridgo and Woollams, tobacconists, £9000, insurance owing to the D.S.C. fire. W. Bobbetfc, formerly well known in racing circles, died from" tho effects of a painful operation m a private hospital at Auckland yestorday. The charge against Charles Russell at Chribtchuroh for performing an illegal operation has been dismissed. The woman denied an instrument had been used. Seventy claims have been sent in to the Government for a refund of the duty paid on the goods destroyed at the Auckland wharf fire, the total being £2000. The Waitara Mail and Clifton County Chronicle is the latest journalistic venture from the Taranaki district. It is published tri-weekly. The Minister for Railways is being requisitioned to provide a dining-car on the express trains between Hawera and New Plymouth. The Southland Bowling Club has decided to hold a tournament at Easter, and to write to the Northern clubs inviting members to attend. Mr W. Fraser. M.H.R. for Wakatipu, has just made a five weeks tour of his electorate, travelling over 750 miles, 550 of which were by buggy and coach, and speaking at fifteen different places. Over 20,000 rabbits were received at the Mataura works on Saturday last. The management expect to put through this season, at Mataura and Bluff, something like 3.000,000 rabbits. A few days ago five Salvation Army officers left Sydney by thfi steamer Yamashiro Maru for Japan, and another contingent proceeded to Brisbane, en route to Java. Most of the American dental colleges are described by Professor Anderson Stuart (of Sydney) as shams and bogus institutions though there are a few bona fide schools. Search parties are scouring the bush near Day's Bay, Wellington, for the missing man Charles Morgan, who has not been seen for one month. It is feared he has perished.