FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9446, 26 May 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Aramoho Assembly's usual dance this evening.

Annual meeting Gas Company to morrow afternoon at 2.30.

The second term of the Girls' College, commences on Tuesday next.

Admission to all cup football matches 6d, ladies froe.

Mr W. J. Treadwell has been eleoted chairman of the Purua Boad Board.

A Cremation Society is about to bo formed in Dunedin.

Potatoes are selling in Auckland at £7 10s per ton.

The Wostport Borough Council intends to borrow £3000 to enlarge the gasworks.

The Minerva Assembly hold their usual dance in Druids' Hall to-morrow Evening at 8 o'clock sharp. A man named Alex Cameron was found dead alongside a dredge near Cromwell (Otago) on Tuesday. A subscription dance is to be held in the 'Waitotara Publio Hall on Friday ,3rd June, in- aid of the Hall funds.

A special train will leave town at 12.10 p.m. to-morrow in connection with the opening oHhe Aramoho Freezing Works.

Californiah quail are to be seen by the dozen at Havelook (Hawke's Bay) just now.

The Hon R. J. Seddon has been invited to address a meeting in Feilding on Saturday next.

Miss Marion Mitchell has decided to bid an early adieu to the stage. Coming events, etc.

Herring are very plentiful in the Buller River at the present time. They are of great size and in prime condition.

Mr Cole, the Palmerston dentist, is missing, and great anxiety is felt about it. He bought a revolver not long ago."

A syndicate is being formed to dredge the Grey River above the Brunner Gorge, where much gold was found in bygone years. The valuation of the Manawatu County has been increased by a sixth.over £150,000 having been added to it by the recent valuation.

Mr John W. Douglas has scratched all horses entered in his late father's name for coming events in New Zealand and Australia.

The barquejlary Hasbrouck. an American trader to New Zealand, now at Auckland, has been registered as a British vessel.

W. Simmons was committed for trial at Dunediu on Monday on a charge of throwing boiling water over Mrs Scott, a woman with whom he had been living.

A swagger named Brown, a foreigner, with naturalisation papers, cut his throat at Elborne's station, Puketapu, where he had been put up for the night. Amongst the mails lost on the steamer Manawatu in Hobson's Bay were 400 registered letters addressed to " Tattersall," of sweep notoriety. Private Turner, of the Wellington City Rifles, district champion, had the little finger of the left hand taken olean off while practising at the butts recently. An irrigated potato crop at Doyleston, Canterbury, produced 25 tons to the acre, while ground left to Nature's own common way of growing vegetables only produced two tons.

The proprietor of tho Hastings Standard is to be proceeded against for having printed an "Extra," giving particulars of the war, without printing his name on it.

Speaking to a crowd in the open air in Hastings on Saturday evening, the Rev Mr Allanson said he had had a good training In pugilism, and he could use his hands with most people, T