FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9396, 24 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Dance at Castlcoliff this evening. Train leaves town at 7.40. < Concert aud dance in Afamoho Sooial Hall this evening. Emergency meeting Tongariro Lodge this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr F. Kobler took possession of the Sandon Hotel on Friday evening. The late proprietor, >Mr Goldfinch, leaves shortly for the Klondyke. Grapes are beings retailed at sixpence per pound in Hastings just now. Memmott, the Australian billiard player, has challenged Roberts, The Premier is to deliver a political address at Balclutha on Friday evening. Twelve thousand persons attented the Otago Jubilee Sports at Dunedin yesterday. The niedical staff of the' Christohurch Hospital do not favor 'the introduction of pasteurised milk for use at the institution. A settler named Bevan accidentally shot himself opposite Pine Island (Auckland) yesterday. He was ant rabbit shoting. It is expected that it will be necessary for Mr Gladstone to undergo an operation. < Sir George Newnes, of the Tit Bits and other journals, is equipping an Antarctic expedition. > The first rifle meeting of the revived Nelson Eifle Association has been fixed for the 24th May. The Chrißtchurch' Hospital is to be lit with electric light at a cost of £2147. A saving of £300 a year is expected as a result of the change. The governor of Lyttelton Gaol, who has had acquaintance in his official capacity with 20,000 prisoners, says he has never met with a prisoner who was a teetotaller. s Mr G. Hallamore, who was captain of the Wellington Club's first fifteen last season and is now a resident of Napier, has been elected cnptain of the Napier club. When prisoners have sei'ved their term in the Darlinghurst prison and are about to leave, the well-known hymn " God be with you till we meet again" isregularlv sung.