FLASHES

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10976, 16 June 1903, Page 5

FLASHES

Much rain and gales predicted. Auckland sent to Samoa. .£29,000 yrortk of goods last year. - ' ' " There i 3 only one BU'dden death 'aißpJig women to eight amon? ,men. . , Kas town "Variety Compa'n- at the Christ Church "schoolroom this evening. '-. ■• Light-haired people, it is said, n« a rule ' lire longer than 111080 having dark hair. r - A falcon has been knpw^i to -fly*" 1350 ' ndles-^rom. Paris to Malta — in 24 hours— 1 About. jfil3o has been subscribed irf-Wel-lington in aid o£ the presecuted -Russian 1 Jews. ' ■ '>■„,-. ,"■' . . Viscount Northland, "only son ofiiia J3rcellcncy the Governor^ came, of age. on Saturday. , ■ '• ' - ' ' • ' - Every Persian ; house is .constructed -on a t>lan of secrecy. No windows are visible from the streets. Sharp frosts .down south have , in some" cases rendered tho ground too , hard for ploughing. ' \ , At the Flcmington Court, Melbourne, Graco Batland was fined J62 for calling au engine-driver engaged during'the strike "a blackleg." Camels aro; perhaps' tl|e .ftnly .anitnnla that cannot swim. Immediately af^tor, they enter fhe water they, turn on their, b.aeks and arc driWno J. ' * * / On the West Indian - Island of "Nevis there iß ( a population <of over 13,000, -wiih. only one doctor t.o administer ■ to tho,ailments of the people. " * For croufiiiing a rooster -in a hox tob small to allow of its moving;- Jane Boyd, of Riverton, was iiuedv4t)» and 9s costs at Invexearjjill. rcc*e,ntly. . ."* , ..." , * More than 1000 people in -Paris earn a living I>y fortttno'teliiiig. Their jo i of income, is -said,' to* amount/ to; '-about? 1 four hundred .thousand pounds; annually;. , v ' - } ; An Auckland pa pe^rsayßj that .the ktti^ards of the-Mapourika Were able ttf^b^en a :banking aceourit MtK- thp'rtipa'tlißy got .from thelcgialato^fE— ia'the,pen»3f saving*, bank. '"..'..' / -'."/^ Two Australian sftntlemen, , well ( versed Hn th"e> latest sn>eltmg 'processes; Tire-vIRi ti«g Te ;Arohii with a. vies* to consider ikesadyl^ftbtH'ty „of' -e recting ,BnM?Hing- p^aiit in' the locality/ • . " .. '. _ , . .' , '. France re-ijecpining' alarmed at th'e^rotrin'g %qfeade- in. the rtu^rtioY'of foreignersin,. Tunis-" 'There' s aipe, '}n • "the' ; regency 90,^58; foreigners.. ..of . whgra. .73;49p % ;ate I^aKaihs. • ThQ IrrencJi, nnnibc'r" bjnly 2&;3n1. ';Ea\meotton'(Tas.^ is llsthted at n'igßV by means .of vi jinyp pattuitard liinrp wispeTideii i»i thecentrp .of- the Eoadway.. rThe 'lj'git t hTown , out .'is steady, .and . b.rigJßt enoujri? to^ ena'ole .& newspaper ; to^ .be. 'read, with ea«ei.- "' '-> ' '•■ t*' ' ■":."**■ ,/ vAt- a xe.co,nt 'mc<?ti»v?- of- fhe r Ardnioua Dfjbat^ncr, Society, Victoria.,,, thp t subject wasj/'Wiiich Has. the Mostclnfluencc-^-tJte Pnlpit-W t]ie \Press?'\ After a'.Bpirtbtl.dis-cmj'sinn-thc- ttoting "was 'm 'favour.' of- 'tic , pre«i ,by, four ,votes. » '■ ':' ,'' ~ The heginning-pf--wijitsr.-Qr-Buinmer yi C]lina depends "oit the whim "of jthV^mperor; 'On W certain' diy ; announced by hi«tt' a11.. -his* mrtwecte JiatveHtf put' 6ri thejr winter, .clothes, '.though ; in- • some rc-gio^tf -aUTOtnjpr, heat, niay^., still* jjrerail." - • /■ . % ''"TJfe GzaT's triiet in -iiiSj 'people is'esfrinp-Hfieji-in' ? hisraannfcr..of rßfotn^r Bfotn^ about in-MoS-cow. 'The Cickr>fljad his !wife .go/aßoUt' the strectsi unprotected. L^mcnl:.l^ -they a*a Btlrrx>iihde)d f ' by I " "crowds, ' land' their appeax- . ance , invariably- cniiß.es enthusiasm! .