FLASHES

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11042, 3 September 1903, Page 6

FLASHES

During the past year .£3OOO was granted in bonuses to 364 public libraries. The South Australian vintage ■ for 1903 amounted to 2,573,424 gallons. A Danish petti ement i« about to be established in the Bay of Plenty. A shooting party of ten guns killed 140 ' hares in one day at Medbury, Canterbury, recently. No woman has entered the Convent ot St. Catherine, on Mount Sinai, for 1400 years. * , . Quarter-acre residential sections in Ashrealised ,£lB9 and £200 respectively at auction, on Saturday. , . ■ England lias forty-two lawsuits a year for every 1800 inhabitants, Germany has seventy,,. au£ , Scotland twenty, only. , 'During" 'the ,p£|s.t fiye , months 1000 new members 'have pined the New Earners' Unipn. • . „ . , Tho paw^va, Sjtfir hears tha,t private advices received for cir<?ese*-'?n"tKe' ijondotT-'Warket. In Montreal a, bride appeared lately at the alM^'witlr^ief' peV canary fastened .to her shoulder by a golden chain. During the marriage ceremony, Jthe bird, broke into 'soria;: "'**> "'" ' ' ' The finest human hair is golden, and red is the coarsest: The thickest of human hair varies from the 250 th to the 600 th part of an inch. A Road Board in the Wairarapa passed a resolution protesting against the constant, massacres in the Balkans, and decided to send a copy of the resolution to the Shah !