FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9448, 28 May 1898, Page 5

FLASHES.

» -. "Miss Black's third musical term commences op Monday. Weekly dance at Castlecliff on Monday evening nex». w Second term Girls' College commences Tuesday. Reports from Rtweme state that all is quiet there. Usual meeting Eons and Daughters of Temperance Monday evening. A footballer had two ribs broken while playing at Coromandel on Saturday. A national park, in the Nelson district, for the preservation of game is taifced of. Nelt Monday (Whit Monday) will be observed as a' holiday by the banking institutions. Annual rneeM&g Gas Company yesterday lapsed *or want of a quorum. Meeting to be held fcwlay. Settiecs near the Auckland gUmflelds complain of the Austrians holding regular drilte on Sundays. f x contract at £3270 has been tot for the •erection of the AucklaudExhibttion ingComplaints are being made in Wellington of short-weight bread supplied by many bakers. The shop of a bioyole agent atßathurst , \?as broken into recently and tteee Enaohines Btolen. A man named Michael MoDonneU ■choked at Ipswich (Q.) 9, few 'daVB ago ■whilst eating. There is an TinußU&lly hewy 'osieadttr tor the criminal sessions oi the Supremfc Court, to open next week a% Auckland. At a recent American wedding the " Wedding March" was whistled by twelve girl-friends of tno bnd&. Special prayers have been offeree! *Vtn% Church of EuglaudjArmida'Te.ibtwieguidance ot electors at the 'i actual elections. A Maon tohuaga, <& Uriwera, is making a, httle -pile tafftfolng Maori girls in the Bay of Ptesty at the rate of £3 per head. During the last three years the seven Ansfa%nan colonies have exported more Ithatt they imported by over £83,«Od#O&. The Government has accepted fcfeg services of the newly-formed Post too" Telegraph Volunteer corps at Wellington. The Governor hftsififermed the Mayor of Kaiapoi that his official visit to that town may take place on Thureday, 16th June Mr Wwa, the defeated Mataura candidate, suggests that theTenCommandments should be repeated in the State aohools commeut. Alphonso XIII. is the present Spanish Sing. Thirteen—" the Devil's number^ The olook of th» Spanish dynasty feftg struck 12, anyhow. ' An extraordinary series <& magnificent vnkterspouts ocoHrred ttS the New South Wales coast a few days ago. No fewer than 20 were counted. There is an oak tree at the old Wesley an station aear Hone Toia's settlement at Wahaa, Hokianga, which was planted in 183 S. It is of very great sure. v TTwo children, aged four and six, belonging to a woman named Stirling, were burned to death in a hut at Hay Eiver, West Australia, recently, in tho absence of the mother. . The snm of £35,210 was passed through the tptalisators at the various race meetings in the colony on Queen's Birthday. Out of this snm £2521 goes to the Baoing Clubs. An Aucklander, writing from Victoria, British Columbia, says, " The Klondyke is played out, and thousands are starving. Our party will return as soon aB possible." A Melbourne paper goes much out of its ■way to inform its leadera that donkeys wifl^iot bray if a weight is tied to their tails. The value of this Information is minimised by the fact that local politicians have 110 tails. It often happens that the doctor is out of town when most needed. Tba two-year-old daughter of J. Y. Schenck, of Caddo, Ind. Ter., was threatened with oroup. Hi writes: "My wife insisted that I go for the doctor at onco, but as he ■was out of town, I purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which relieved the child immediately." A bottle of that remedy in the house will often save the expense of a doctor's bill, besides the anxiety always occasioned by Perious sickness. When it is given as soon as the oroupy cough appears, it will prevent the attack. Thousands of mothers always keep it in their homes. For sale by B. M. Gaten y, Chemist.

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