ITEMS OF INTEREST

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 September 1915, Page 3

ITEMS OF INTEREST

(FROIT VARIOUS SOURCES) It is reported from Florence that ten lads have run away from an orphanage to go to the frout. # * ■■»' When British Cabinet Ministers meet at the end of each session, they indulge in a whitebait dinner. Thih is an old custom, dating back over 100 years. * a- # In a case of eggs imported from Norway. Mr J. Smitb, of Hull, England, found an egg on which was written : *' Respected Englishman, a Dane sends yyu friendly greetings, and trusts you may conquer in this horrible war. * * * The King of the Belgians has accepted the degree of Doctor of Laws offered him by the M'Gill University, Canada, which has sent many doctors to the front, as well as more than five hundred students whp volunteered for the ranks. * * * The Czar's youngest daughter, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, who is now fourteen years of age, is hard at work before six in the morning, knitting can'forters. and later in the d«y visits hospitals, where she writes letters for wounded saldiers. * _# # Mr Alan R Hawley. President of the American Aero (Jlub, announces th&t the American national aeroplaue competition and trans-continental race have been postponed indefinitely, " this," he s»ays, " not being the tiaie to consider sporting events." .* f * * ' A well-known American writer thinks that the signing of Peace will lead to an emigration movement that will amaze the world. After the Franco^Gernian War of 1870-71 200,000 Germans settled in three of the greatest American StatesNebraska, Minnesota, and towa, which are now German-American. * i- # One of the moat daring members cf the Russian Flying Corps on the Galician front is a girl from a Petrograd High School, who r« cently arrived at Kieff wounrled iv the arm aud leg, having been hit while flying. In spite of her injuries she kept control over her machine until she landed in the Russian linefc. * * # On the occasion of the centenary of the battle of Belle Alliance, the Governor-General of Brussels, Baron yon Blissing, addressing officers, officials, and soldiers, concluded with a vow that the German people would stand by the Kaiser until the enemies of the Empire agaiu found their Waterloo. « •".' * The Council of the Nottinghamshire Minors' Association has undortaken jointly with the miners in Derbyshire to pay for a entire establishment of motor ambulances at an expense of £30,000 and to bear the cost of upkeep, which will amount to about £1,000 per month. « •» * The hottest region on earth is on the south-western coast of Persia, where Persia borders the gulf of same name. For forty consecutive days in the months of July and August the thermometer has been known not to fall lower than 100 degrees, night or day.