FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9839, 4 September 1899, Page 3

FLASHES.

Usual weekly practice Leidertafel this ovoning. Wanganui School Committee's mou ruly meeting to-night at 7.30. Pay night to-night for members of '.ln> Economic Building Society. Rehearsal "Princess Ilia" to-night at 8 for ladies and 8.30 for gentlemen . The prico of bread in Dunedin is only 2Jd per 41b loaf.

By a flood in tho copper mino at Shikohu, 600 people have perished. A mounted rifle corps has been form.'d at Otaki.

Lecture in Oddfellows' Hall this evening by Mr Joseph Malms, head of Goo-l Temploar Order.

Mr E. Chibnan, for the past seven years Collestor of Customs at Hokitik:;, died on Thursday evening. Mr Napier Bell, C.E., was a passeng n t from Napier on Friday night by tho Elingamito en route to Sydney. Sisty suicides of persons unable to pay their rent occurred in Paris during a re cent week.

Tho use of bicycles instead of horses by the N.S. Wales post office lias resulted in a saving of d£l4lß per annum since February, 1897. It is understood that the Government have paid .£ls per aero for Mr Joscpa Saunders' farm near Awahuri.

During tho 'week ending Thursday last there were seven bankruptcies in the colony.

Jiidgo IWard has held office longer than any other judge in New Zealaad, having held appointment for over T, years. His present salary is J3OOO uor annum.

While a man named Jasperson was being operated on at Albury (New South Wales) recently, for the removal of an abscess in tho throat, it suddenly burst and suffocated him.