FLASHES.
In some parts of the Oamaru distinct" the harvest will he ready in about 10 or . 12 days. ' . , There is a very large area, of land invpotatoes in Hawke's Bay this yettf-ani -' at latest advices the prospects of a large"'*, crop were favourable. , £ -„ There aro rumours of an early session,'" of Parliament. l •>* i"-'-The Auckland City loan will be on"th«f% market at an' early date. * " yp A buslunan travelled £00 miles to ioiaO the South Australian contingent. , U, A sudden storm unroofed a number of ~ houpes at Mitchan (South Australia;'. V ; Alleged disloyal utterances by German "x justices of the peace m Albany (N.S.W ):\ are being inquired into by the authorities. - i '-'*'< Wallace Boss, of St. John's, No\r-^: foundland, the well-known sculler, has had a stroke of paralysis, vrhicli has . af- " ' fected the whole of one side of his body?~ ) It was 104 dogbees in the shade at five ' o'clock in the afternoon in Melbourne a' - few days ago. , -" Government' House, Melbourne, has - been offered, the first Federal Governor-r 1 , General for himself and suite.' '_ , *"V"'"> A short-sighted sportsman mistook:a,.couple of lads at Philip Island, Victoria - l for tares and riddled thorn with, shot, V ; A Scarborough widow, a teacher of>"' music, deposed in court tho other-day 7 that she made £S a fortnight by sineine -- in the Btreets. ' The deaths, from influenza in Mcl- / bourne this year oxceeded all previous records. f " The notorious Benjamin Bridge who escaped from the Brisbane, gaol fcovoV years ago, has bean captured in West' '-' Australia. S T x V., The New South Wales Presbyterian^ 'pntenary thanks-jiving fund nbvs-> amounts to > .--*■„ The Melbourne Harbour Trust haaiie£> cided to ipercase the wages, of its-sea-^ men, firemen, and winchmen by 10s per " month. ' * aa* A baby in a kerosene tin. was found on^| a plain near Bourke (New Soutt WalesTf a few days ago, in the scorching heaK Pahiatua business people are agitating ,', for a telephone exchange. ,v, v At Natimuk (Victoria) sporte, a disturbance took place between loyal cite " zens and Boer sympathisers. The latter were hooted off the ground.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9939, 16 January 1900, Page 2
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346FLASHES. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9939, 16 January 1900, Page 2
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