FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9398, 26 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Smoke concert this evening in Metropolitan Hotel in connection with old boys of Collegiate School. The Premier and Minister of Lands are visiting Otago, and intend delivering addresses. The Auckland City water supply is runniug short, and the surplus reservoir is now being used. The Presbyterian Synod, sitting at Dunedin, proposes to raise £30,000 for ohuroh extension work. A sitting of the Court of Appeal is fixed to be held in Wellington on the 25th April next. Mr Scobie Mackenzie will deliver a political address in Auckland in three weeks' time. The Misse3 Hatherly and Celia Dampier have taken the Princess Theatre, Hastings, for Tuesday next. Lord Salisbury's health has sufficiently improved to permit him to leave for the Continent to-day. A dairyman at Malvern, Victoria, has been fined £3 and £2 costs for selling milk containing 35 per cent, of added water. Daring February there were 30 deathß from violence in Sj'dney, including 21 accidents and seven suicide?. A Sydney Board of Health return for a recent fortnight shows that of 58 cases of typhoid nine resulted fatally. A meeting of eighteen London firms engaged in the importation of frozen lambs resolved to hold out for 2|d for the best Canterbury from Monday next. Grunenthal, a retired official of the German Imperial Printing Office, has been arrested on a charge of stealing bank notes to the value of 1,121,000 marks. At a meeting of the Pioneer Bicycle Club at Christchurch last night a large majority decided in favour of the Alliance continuing to govern amateur cycling. Mr J. Myers, City Councillor, was knocked Eenseles* at Wellington on Thursday night. His assailant struck him in mistake for another man. Three cases of tuberculosis were discovered by Mr Hull on Thursday at the Palmerston saleyards, cows being affected in each case. The animals were destroyed. Three spielers were arrested in Napier on Wednesday for wheedling a £10 note from an old man named Forstor. Tho accused are to be charged with conspiracy to defraud. In view of the Dudley colliery disaster, it is interesting to note that the great catastrophe at Brunner, when over 00 personß lost their lives, occurred two years ago to-day.