FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9479, 4 July 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Wanganui Education Board schools reopened 1 to-day. , ' Usual meeting Wanganui School Committee this evening. \ ■ ' Social in St. Paul's Hall this evening at 7.30 o'olock. , Whitebait have commenced to come tip the Manawatu River, j - ■■ The' willow .trees in Canterbury are bursting into leaf already. l • A party of French Trawlers ars looting Galita Island, off Tunis. ' - . 'The Socialists claim to have secured 2,122,000 votes at the recent elections in' Germany. . % -\ Mr Julius Caesar, of Ormond, is one of the recently appointed J's.P: The Dunedin Harbour' Board have decided to appoint an engineer to control and supervise the whole of ,the Board. t The local Express reports that the timber sent from Eketahuna during the v last four weeks reached nearly one million' feet. ' \ * , Victorian wheat on the Bpot.is' selling in London at 40s. The early May "shipment is offered at '3ls fid. , [ Mr Brown, an Excise" offioer,had his head cut off at Sydney yesterday.by f ailing" under a steam tram. ( The Sherard'Osboina ia engaged laying a new cable between Tasmania and Victoria. . L ■', The Land Boardhas decided to warn off a number of squatters who have lately taken possession of a reserve 'overlooking the river in the Mangaw.eka township; The steamer Manawatu, which sank as the result of a collision' in Hobaon's Bay, has been raised. . l - , \ Bro. E.E. Lev^en has been installed as Worshipful Master of Rangitikei Lodge, \ N0.38,N.Z.C. , , ■*,-,'- The young King of Tonga's counsellors, are trying to ohoose a wife for s him. 'Two Tongan belles are "in theirunning'' and* their names are to be put in the hat.V^ * { ' About 401 bof what. is supposed to be ambergris was found on the, beach 7 near^ Gisborne a few days ago. I Samples chave' been sent to Sir James Hectqr'>andMr Skey for analysis. >,- . ' ' > ; ~>',^