FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9400, 29 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Borough Council meeting this evening. Annual mealing Wauganui Rifles tonight. Silver ore has been found in the Seaward Ranges at Oheviot. For the first week the Duneclin Exhibition was visited by 35,000 persons. Applications are invited by the Hospital Board for the position of house surgeon fo the Wanganui Hospital. A man named W. Henderson had two of his toes badly smashed in the Petone workshops on Saturday. Miss Emily H. Siedebsrg, M.D., attended Lady Ranf urly during her illness at Dunediu. > . ~ Mr James Prosser, of " Marton, has taken over the Caledonian Hotel at Napier. Over 4000 paople were present at Fitzgerald 8r03.' circus in Hastings last Thursday night. At the floral bicycle competition at Inveroargill the prizes were awarded by popular vote. A conference of Agricultural Societies is convened at Christohurch for the Bth June. - i The Legislative Council elections in Cape Colony give Cecil Rhodes a majority of four votes. The sum of £40 has been promised at Eltham toward the initial expanses of inaugurating a Fire Brigade. The shooting season for native and imported game has been fixed to op3n on Monday, May 2nd. / The Nelson papers state that all available prisoners are to b 9 employed on " new fortification works " at Wellington. M' 1 Chaa. Naylor, late of the Novelty Compauy. is now singing jester in Fitz-" gorald's circus. t Early next month the Governor and Lady Ranfurly will leave for Australia, whore a month will be spent. The repairs to Government House, Auckland, are being carried out on the cooperative system. The Pahautanui (Wellington) oyster beds are said to contain 100,000 of these sucoulent bivalves ready for market. Advt. from Christchurch Press: Wanted a situation as hairdresser by young lady good shaver. Address, F. Cutts, Ashburton. The Wellington correspondent of the Wairarapa Star says it is only too apparent there is collusion between the spielers and the police of the Empire City. It was stated at the last meeting of the Westport Harbour Board that there would be a surplus revenue of £18,000 on the year's working. The railway between Auckland and the Thames will be completed in a year. The journey between the two places will occupy about seven hours. Applications are invited by the Canterbury College for the chair of English languages, literature and history, in succession to Professor Matthew. Bishop Wilson, of Melanesia, was a passenger b,y the P.. and 0- steamer China, which was vyrecked in the Straits of Babel Maudqb. LAL A London cablq state.3 tljat the late, Mr Charles Stuart Barnell!s mother died at Ayondalo |hrough being severely b'qrned, the result of an accident. Five hundred and fifty, paid-up shares in the Auckland Gas Company offered to the public were taken up at an average price of £14 12s 9d per share. At the special services at St John's Anglican Church, Christohuroh, on Sunday to commemorate the restoration and renovation of the Church, £160 was reoeived in offertories. The Mania Town Board has decided to objsot to the whole of the valuations for tho towu district on the ground of excessive and unequal valuation. It is rumoured (says the Post) that Mr. Justice Deuniston will be appointed President of the Arbitration Court in place of Mr Justice Williams, who resigned it in> order to visit England. During the past 12 months the Wellington Harbour Board's dredges have lifted 12,990 cubic yards of silt at a cost of £1160, or at the rate of about Is 9Jd per cubic yard. ' During five days' racing the sum of £22128 was put through the totalisators in Hawke's Bay, and yet tradesmen complain they cannot get their accounts paid.