FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9713, 10 April 1899, Page 3

FLASHES.

Liedertnfol practice at usual timo rind place to-night. Educatidn Board's monthly meeting commences this evening. ,Tho chargp of sly-grog Belling against Chinese to be heard to-morrow. Tho New Zealrind polo team, with 20 pomes, left for Sydney on Saturda^. Potatoes in Hawke's Bay arc selling at3os per ton, and it is feared that the prico wll go even lower. The remaining Phamix Park murderers aro to bo released at periods consistent with mercy and justice. Mullincaux's English football team sailsifor Australia by the Oceana. Sub-inspector Wilson, of l\ilmerston, hasbeen appointed to Auckland. Since the opening of the stalking senson 75 head of deer have been taken info Martinborough. Tho Wellington Patent Slip Company's profit for the year was £7 ( M. A dividend of 8 per cent was declared, and JJ2OO written off tho plant. Tho proprietor of tho cafe in Dunedin was fined 20s and costs for employing a girl more than 52 hours per week. Mr It. M'Nab, M.H.R. for Mataura, has takon JJI2O off the rent of land let by, him to croppers, in consideration of tho low prices ruling this season. At the Dunedin Police Court John D. Hunter was fined .£3 end costs, and his .rouletto table ordered to be forfeited, , for playing games at the Taieri, races. Tho directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory Company have declared an ii> terim dividend of 3J per cent for the half-year which has just closed. A' correspondent of the Hawko's Bay Herald states tiiat the idea of establishing a 'llour-miil in the liush is being actively canvassed among farmers at present. 1 Tho whole of the railway workshops in the colony are working full tiii:e ttgain. Tho statement is made 1 that persons affected with leprosy hawk vegetables • and household supplies at Suva (Fiji).