FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9397, 25 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Sale of work and promenade concert in Chiisfc Church schoolroom this evening. Another attempt is to be made to develop goldmining at Terawhiti. Meeting in Borough Council Chambers at 7.30 this evening re lawn tennis club fer Cook's Gardens. Half-an-inch of rain fell in Wanganui in a quarter of an hour last Monday morning. A prohibition order was this morning issued against J. Jones, who was also convicted of drunkenness. A rifle corps has been formed at Levin, and Government has been asked to accept its services. Messrs F. R. Jackson and Go's quarterly horse fair to-morrow, commencing at 11.45. A hospital for consumptives is to be erected at Brisbane at a cost of £5500. A Wellington womauiniecoiptof chaiitable aid was recently discovered to be paying 5s a week to leain to ride a bike. The Railway Department, it is stated, is dissatisfipd with tho working of the Welhugton-Napier service, and several changes of officers are being made. An exhibition is to beheld at Coolgardie in September. The West Australian Government has pioroiscd to assist, and the grant, with private assistance, already provides a fund of £8000. The steamer Mataura, which went ashore in the Straits of Magellan, has now broken in halves. Her damaged wool will cost ljd per lb for reloadmg and storage charges. An American has a plan for reaching the North Pole by making the voyage be neath the ice in a submarine boat. The Empress of Abyssinia has ordered her husband, Menelik, to pass a sumptuary law forbidding anyone in the empire to wear jewels of gold except herself. Miss Lutie Lytle, who has been admitted to the Bar in Tennessee, and is the first woman ever yet allowed to praotise in that State, was the daughtor of a slave. A New York man is bringing an action for divorce against his wife because she is a spiritualist, and will hold seances in his house. > The commemoration of tile thousandth anniversay of tho death of King Alfred will take the form of a memorial to bo erected in Winchester, where ho reigned and was buried. With £10 worth of plant some of the most energetic rabbitters in Southland are now said to be making as much as £1 per day, whilst the least experienced get from 6s to ids. Towards the end of this month the mutton-birders will be leaving Southland on their annual expedition to the outlying islands. It is believed that birds will be less plentiful than usual. The New Woman was in evidence at the Rifle Association's meeting last Friday. A lady competitor carried her rifle to the firing point, while her husband nursed the baby. ___________