FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9402, 31 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Grand Water Carnival at Corporation Baths this evening. Tableaux, Polo matches, and ship on iiro amongst tho attractions. Lnne-light views at St. Paul's Hub ovoning. Excellent entiios for Board of Control Sports Eastor Monday. Opossums aro becoming quite plentiful around Napier. A mounted Salvation Army corps is the latest thing in Pahiatua. It has boon decided to hold the next Polo Tournament at Palmers ton North. This year Cheviot Estato has producod 60,000 bushels of wheat, and sent to market 20,000 fat lambs. The services of the cycling detachment of the North Canterbury Volunteer Battalion havo been accepted. The Marlborough Express reports that one of this season's barley crops afc Spring Crook yielded 80 bushels to the acre. At Sydney yostorday, Megson put up a flying quarter-mile in 213-sth seo.whicli is a world's record. Tho native Enoka found guilty of murdering his wife at Panhaka, has been sentenced to death. The Sydnoy Customs officers seized 30,000 contraband cigars on tho China steamer Chingtu. Two bequests of, respectively, £117 and £50 havo been left to the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum. As a result of the Jubilee celebrations, l j is proposed to organise a branch of the New Zealand Natives' Association in Dunediu. The crack Auckland yacht Meteor easily defeated the champion Sydney yacht Bioii/!etving m a match sailed yesttiday. ' It is reported that Spain is willing to withdiaw her troops from Cuba, and it is believed virtually accepts McKinley's proposals. The system of working overtime in the railway workshops at Petone, which Ufa very busy just now, has been 'abandoned and extia hands taken on. Eight moie Mormon missionaries aro coming to New Zealand to work piincipally among the Maoris, among whom thoy claim 4000 members. Forty-livo of tho crow of the sealer Greenland perished off Capo Bona Vista, on the east Newfoundland. The Queen has sent a message of sympathy with the families of the Greenland sealers. A Now Zealand war medal has been issued to Mr J. Burden, lato Sergoatt No. 1 Company Royal Rifle Volunteers, Auckland. _ The Wellington Land Board has decided not to grant any more applications from settlers for permission to leside off their sections. Tho Southern Standard reports that tho whole of the collection taken at the Presbyterian Church wero niched from tho vestry on Sunday. Twenty parents were fined at Palmerston yesterday on charges of truaucy on the part of their children. The Post Office has received advice that the Chiua's mails are all saved except a few boxes of samples. G. Lang, the jockey, is progressing very favorably at thePalqiorPton Hospital, and will be able to lotiTe there is a few days. A present to the bridegroom ac a recent wedding in the Manawatu district was an elaborate mousetrap, with tho legend " caught at last." Mark Twain says of Dunedin: — "The totvn justifies Michael Davitt'e praises. The people are Scotch. They stopped here on their way from Homo to heaven — thinking that they had arrived." " This fellow Dickens must be a queer customer," said the British workman. " I see him advertising in all the book-shops, ' Dickens' works for sixpence.' How's a man to earn an honest livin' against such black-legs as him ?" 4i Dunedin a father had prohibition orders issued against two of his sous prior to the Jubilee celebrations. He was afraid they would be on all fours with the Jubilee gathering.