FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9458, 9 June 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Animal meeting Wanganui Licensing Committee to-morrow at noon. , Aramoho Assembly's usual weekly dance this evening. Popular concert m St, Paul's Hall this evening. The Tutanekai will repair the broken cable next week.

To-morrow last discount day for monthly gas accounts. Only nine men are now employed on the State Farm at Levin.

Usual fortnightly meeting of Wanganui Band of Hope in Wesleyan Schoolroom this evening at 7. Usual monthly meeting St. Adrew Kilwinmng Lodge this ovening at 7.30. The lUugitikei County Council propose placing a tax of 7s 6d per year on bicycles. Annual meeting Wanganui Chess and Draughts Club to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock.

Churoh of England social at Brunswick this evening. 'Bus leaves Haw ke's Stables at 6.30.

The Maori Congress at Papawai is still proceeding and about 1600 natives are now assembled there.

Freezing works have now been established by Messrs Williarnsom and Company at Port Pegasus, Stewavt Island. A. determined attempt is to be made, with Wellington for the centra of operatians, to organiso the Opposition m the colony. The Gear Meat Company has declared an interim dividend for the half year at the rate of ten per cent annum.

Joseph Anderson, a miner, 69 years of age, has bejn found dead in his hut near Hyde (Dunedin). At Napier on Monday, two persons, charged with having procured liquor for prohibited persons, were fined £Z each, in default one month's imprisonment. Sutherland and Walne, the cyolists, have returned from Australia, and will race in. New Zealand next season.

We have to thank the Traffic Manager, Wanganui, for a copy of the Railway time-table for the current month.

The boat's crew who so nobly risked their lives at Gisborne the other day were recently entertained at a banquet, and subscriptions have also been collected on their behalf. A movement for the establishment of freezing works is on foot in Ashburton, and a meeting has been announced to discns3 the matter and fix up a site. Crossing Foveaux Straits the s.s. Monowai passed through a large school of whales disporting themselves in all directions.

Another of the mailbags, containing 400 registered letters, has been recovered from tho sunken steamer Manawatu. The addresses were decipherable.

Jfr J. W. Bain has been elected chairman of the Southlandßuilding and Investment Society and Bank Deposit for the thirtieth time in succession— a record for Otago, surely, if not for New Zealand.