FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10016, 20 April 1900, Page 2

FLASHES.

Amateur Athletic Carnival in Cook's Gardens to-morrow. Annual meeting Wanganui RugbyUnion to-night at 8. Miss Cave won the lawn tennis ladies'^ championship singles at Wellington," beating Miss Gore, 6—3,6 — 3, 6—4.6 — 4. Rabbits are now reaching southern' factories by thousands every day. N There is a possibility of the Woodvilla and Pahiatua Wesleyan Circuits being amalgamated. It ia expected that the price of fat stock in Victoria will keep high for Iho next twelve months. Tho Potone Borough Council intends to instal a novelty in the shape of a. shilling-in-the-slot gas-meter, so popular iv England. ' They have been in use in Wanganui for some time past. ' During the 1899 racing season inEngland the Duko of Westminster won " in stakes .£43,965. From Calcutta comes news of the death of Mr Mario, of the Flying Jordans, husband of the beautiful Arra-' gon, the slack-rope walker. It is said that a once-pretty-^ and popular Sydney actress is now living, .with a Chinese market-gardener. Long-haired Bambridge has started lecturing again in Hawke's Bay. The Government offices throughout the colony will be closed on April 23rd, in celebration of St. George's Day. A man named ' David Buckley was L robbed of over .£2OO in money and gold - specimens while asleep at Kalgoorhe. "Crowded out to make room for more interesting matter," observed the gallaut editor aa he gave his seat in the., tram to the young woman with soulful - ; eyes. N '"a The Queen's Birthday will lje cele;~ brated in London on the 23rd of MayM and elsewhere <on the 24th. *•£ It is 25 years since the Mountain' 5 Road was opened for traffic . rig\i j through to Hawera. The Kaiser attends the Regatta at Cowes in August. Tho Czar has presented Prance with, a map in Mosaic, valued at four mik" lion francs. Gems represent the chief towns. The Queen, fearing fatigue, foregoes' her visit to Belfast. The newspapers commend her decision to remain, in Dublin, which is a neutral city, Mrs Niccol, a very old resident o( Auckland, 1b dead. Deceased was aged 79. Harry Roberts was to make his debut _ before a San Francisco audience in "Thfr Silence of Dean Maitland" a day or two after the last mail left. A lad named Reginald Hogsflesh was killed at Peak Hill, New South Wales,through a cart loaded with timber'upsetting and falling on him. "*- According to the Express, quite a number of pheasants' nests have lately been found near Eketalmna in which, tho whole of the eggs have been infer-" tile. Five thousand fat sheep were sold on a run at Balranald, New South Wales, last week, at 13s 6d per head. They are to be frozen for South Africa. On the Queensland-New South Wales boundary line, on the edge of the Australian desert, an artesian well has struck a yield of water of 4,000,000 gallons per day. I Mr Field, M.H.R., states that the. I services of the Otaki Mounted Rifleql are to be accepted. " |