FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9644, 17 January 1899, Page 2

FLASHES.

Borough Council's usual, fortnightly^ meeting this evening. ' . -""-. In the Woodville district locafly'grow^ potatoes are selling at 2d per lb. J ' , c^UfM In Wanganni tho price is Id for'6lb3p§| with a downward tendenoy. ■ ""« '*&■?§ A man in Napier has been fined tot'm keeping a young pig as a pet." ' ' L^m Labor is very scarce in Nelson, Ak'aroa^f Pahiatua and Danevirke. , ,?"j|il Sir John Hall and Mr John Duthie were i» passengers by the WairereforPipirikithispf morning. - V',¥/$t Fred Macabe, ventriloquist and sopiety^g entertainer, who visited New Zealand^ some years ago, is now an inmate of the'^f Ormskirk Workhouse. ,< 'vy^ The Otaki Mail reports "that anninbeiS£ of local residents are suffering fronval-y mild form of what is known as English^ cholera. , i , » ' 't/'f'M Uph'am is going with the N.Z teamHo'i| Australia after all, and.it is proVble that -J Holdship may also be able to get away.' -'^ As a consequence of the late rain many>.s of 'the early wheat orops are effeoted. wlta-'A *nst.. ' 1 -« ';! Stoats and weasels are reported to bs^ increasing in numbers again in parts of *-■ the Masterton district.,, " \~\ 75* Mr J. Sillars has presented to the M&8-'-> terton Museum three works by* Charles Churchill,, published in, 1779. :-- £i Inspector Emerson has taken a turn ~fo_iTA the better, and hopes are now entertained % of his_ recovery.- •- ' /">»-> ri Owing to financial distress, the trustees v. of the Ohiro Home, Wellington, intend to{>( borrow £1000 on their endowments. - iJy- . . A United Bands -Association contest ia?j. : being arranged to be held in Chriotohurch :.,f: „f in 1900.- , .\ V.J. r % r *:.*<Ti<s& ■■ -Walter 'Bentley, Jtho greatest -.living^ actor, I—vide1 — vide old .play bills— now xunß\ft--f paper called Saturday Night, in-'Brisbania^v I , The Hawera School .JhftvVtf nominated Messrs Robbias and Fred.*;; Pirani for the Education Board vacahoiea;'?;'* ' The Bush'Advooate |ia3 been iufbrtned'Js that grasshoppers are more numerous in'/; that dittriot than hasibeen the case for. ft; many years past. ' - - --^M , The Nelson Colonist says that a woman*|§ recently walked from Karamea to, Col- id) lingwood, a distance of 100 milea, aocom- >:> panied by her husband, in two days.