FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9641, 13 January 1899, Page 2

FLASHES.

Ripe apricots may now be purchased in }.. Hastings at a penny per ponnd. , ' r-^ Dysentery in acute form is very ■pre-"/ valent in Hastings just now. < _ '*'■ Neither Holdship nor Uphaia can getaway with the New Zealand team. "^ -V;» , It is said that Sergesnt-Wilaon^-oi!-, Palmerston North, will be raised to the j 1 position of Sub-Inspector. ' , "- ' -'<•'*, The Hon Mr Seddon has been a member^ . of the House of Representatives for nearly > 20 years. / - - „*/''■£. A woollen mill will probably soon be \ started in Invercargill by. private enter—-, ptise. The buildings are already erected.^ At Ngarnawahia (Auckland) Joseph" White was mulcted in £9 2s fines -and costs for- driving three horses with "soralshoulders. , ,*•-"' ..-£,* The British Government has asked^theV Vatican not to sond any missionaries to the Soudan until matters are organised, there. ■ ' \-d - '• Tho much discussed funds accruing, from a military tournament held itAuck-',"' land some considerable time ago aro to bo. l^ devoted towards the Queen's statue. The trout fishing in Lake Rotorua has" : been the means of bringing quite a fleet >' of boats into that district, five now boats; having been put on the lake this seasonif Messrs Bailey and Cornfoot are about- 1 to place two new saw-mills in_' the Kawhatau Valley. /w _ '■' The Newtown (Wellington), school children have placed a headstono to -the ;- grave of thoir late schoolmaster, Mr C. ' ; Hulke. " <•'• .'„ The annual picnio of the railway W« i ployees takes place on Sunday next. The ' i boat leaves'Bett's Wharf for Kahinihinr at 9.30 a.m. - • „,•,-- The crops in the Ashburton district "are i stated to present a magnificent appearance,-;-; and it would take a lot of very adverse 1 weather to causo anything 'like a disaster' just now. ' " " .»' f ' It is said that the sum of £12,000 was '■ withdrawn from the P.O. Savings Bank.;, at Waihi previous to the Christmas;, holidays. * > . • , i „>";

____*__ _ v j^jtyy^ "I have used Chamberlain's Cough/ i^ Romedy in my family for years and always 1 "^ with good results," says Mr W.B. Cooper, ~'sL of El Rio, Cal. " For small children, we":?! find it especially effective." Fop gala byJ^A R. M. Gatenby, chemist. - ■ " l-y;s,':l -y;s,':