Odds and Ends

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1751, 17 July 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends

Auction sale in Te Aroha to-morrow. Improvementin.the weather. P<»ur fine days, may they continue. Rand concert on the 25th inst. Cadman mine looks well/ Silver inedal advertised for; reward offered. , ? M f H - Harrison has. been appointed S'^ anager Nations; .at dltoiney the Suez Canal was '<£B,ooo,yUO. ‘ ‘ . ! \ ' HP°A enquiring we learn that the Rev P. G. Evans is progressing favourably. Mr N. Brown, latedf the Te Aroha Familr Hotel, has taken Over the Prince Albert Hotel at OnehuUga. The Premier says 1 that permits have been refused gold prospectors 'to go into the Urewera country; • • * • Mr Dunn; the English Mining expert, : - at visiting Te Aroha in connection with the proposed works at-Waidrongoin £ rf ■ in London .churches on Hospital,Sunday average, £40,000. ft that.the very objectiohnhle hapit of snuff--taking- is coming into : vope agiii i. . ° •/ ' ° , A ffipiohs turtle in Ceyibh,’well-known to ' be over two centuries oia/has just died in Colombo. ' • > - -

, A hunchback, the father of 41 ; children, has just met with an accidental death in America. . ■ ; .

In twelve months no fewer than 21,389 persons died in India, from snake-bite, and over half a million of snakes were destroyed during that period.-.. ■ An-, absolutely fireproof -chimney, 50ft mgh,' has.-.been .jn Breslau ;It is the only one of the kiud- - A formidable band of feal cannibals from the Congo river has been landed at AntVIB M fihiWV kt the exhibition. , . Ahe Queen purchases almost every new book of ncte published, and hex- expenditure -on liteiratdre of’all softs is' Over '£l2oo ner annum. v . r ; -Eifty acres’ of park; ; a- fihely-Wooded elevation, have-been 'added to Peckhahi-rve. ata costof £51,060, and are how Open to - railways .of the United Kingdom last y?,ar. carried 30,000,000 first-class passenS lV 61 ’P 0 ?' 000 secoQ d class, and 772,000,000 third-class. .. . > " S ne . of ® n S lall <l , s most ancient churches —that of. JPeter, .Whitfield, near Dover —is aboutc;toiheiestqrh.d. t It was first endowed as, u Vicarage 14411 Ihhas been'estimated By a dealer in artificial limbs that: 300,000 /persons -in Great Britain; having lost one or both legs, wear wooden substitutes,.. issued from the Mint last ■ year represented a currency value rather under £47,000.. The average for the teb .yefirs' has been nearly- £62/000. _ The soil of Uruguay is so fertile that often harvested- at the: rate Of 100' bushels for bushel sown. TP? 9^P 8 ' imports theten mouths ended, with April amounted m value, to upwards :of tern and; h/<fuart§r millions,' and upwai-dr of eleven fiiiillpns. Ontario is a great centre fOrfiiiitgrowers.* There are' 7,000,000' aipple trees, 2,000 000 rines, -700,W0 plum trees, besides peach' au4 cherry trees. Tae oldest tree in the world is still growA,section of the trunk receatly reached the'British Jduseuru, and ,exp§rta declare that. it . ■■ - • ■*’*"’ v *