FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9403, 1 April 1898, Page 3

FLASHES.

Pollard's Opera Company is now at the Thames. Typhoid fever is prevalent in the Levin district. An effort is being made to form a Chamber of Commerce in Feilding. The Premier will bo unable to deliver a political address in Napier as arranged. It ia proposed to improve thelmibournt Albany (W.A.) at a cost of over £20,000. Social and dance in Brunswick Hall this evening. Brake leaves Hawke's stables at 5.30 p.m. The Government are inviting tenders for the purchase of turnips on the Pomohaka estate. At the vice-regal reception in Hastings on Tuesday, Cr Blurdock refused lo shake hands with the Premier. Mr Brett, a petroleum expert representing an English syndicate, is at piesent in the Taranaki district. A grandstand is to be erected on the Athletic Park, Wellington, capable of holding 500 people. A movement is on foot at Daneviike to build a theatre in that rising inland township. Mr J. Ivess has acqnired a paper in Paeroa, the Tribune, which for many years has been carried on by Mr C. F. Mitchell. The four-masted ship Hollinwood has arrived in Sydney after a protiacted passage of 122 days from New York. Theie is some talk of renewing the offer to the Government of the services of a volunteer corps at Stratford. The Oamaru Garrison Band left on Monday for Melbourne to take part in tho great intercolonial band contest at Easter. THr T. E. Taylor, M.H.R., has been invited to deliver political addresses at Invercargill and Balclutha, and has consented to do so. It is estimated there are 155 on board the Warrimoo bound for Klondyke, and that they have something like £20,000 with them. A Wellington postal messenger named Hugh McCarthy came into collision with a buggy, and his hands, arms and legs were mutilated. A well-known farmer on the Crown Terrace, Lake Wokatipn, is giving his harvesters Is an hour on account of having a good crop. A young woman named AdaHolbourne, who had a quarrel with her lover at Sydney, committed suicide on Saturday by taking .a dose of carbolic acid. A man named Nixon was fined £200 at Melbourne in addition to two years' im prisonment for attempting to induce witnesßes to swear falsely. During the carrying out of night evolutions at Brest, the cruiser Friant collided with and sank the torpedo boat Ariel. The crew were rescued. By a severe gale on Invercargill on Monday, the roof of the Tramway Company's stables was lifted bodily off and deposited on the opposite side of the street. The s.s. Tokomaru took away from Timaru the largest single shipment of frozen mutton and lamb yet made from that port— namely, over 33,000 carcases. Dr Newman yooaied his seat on the Wellington Education Board on Wednesday, after having served the cause of education in the capacity of a Boardsman for 19 yaars. The Dunedin Star on the Caledonian Pipe Band of Southland :— " A fine body of men, who play bagpipe music admirably, aud can do everything they try on the pipes excepting ' God save the Queen,' "