Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1788, 20 November 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

The ballast engine, is now. .at work on the Paeroa-Te Aroha line and is expected to cross the Paeroabridge in a few days. ,t \ i Steps are be taken to form a School of Mines in Karangahake* - - . Mr Bach, of the National Hotel, has been elected Major of Cambridge. A new hotel at' Botorua called tho “Grand” cost with furnishing and decorations about £16)000.

Hugh Muixay, the miner who was seriously hurt in the Try Fluke mine,’ Kuaotunu, is dead, ‘ - Smardon Bros, intend running-; A coach to the Waihou social On Friday: evening. ” . rv The Rev G. P. Hunt, late Primitive Methodist Minister at Fielding, has been appointed to Waihi. > . v The largest university is Oxford, in England. It consists of twenty-one colleges and five halls, -

First sugar-cane cultivated in the United States,inear New Orleans, 1751; first sugarmill, 1758. .

First telegraph in operation in America" was between Washington and Baltimore, May 27,1844. .. ... r > The first illumipatipn; with gas Cornwall, Eng., 1702 jinJjhe United States, at Boston, 1822 ft j’ 7. :Jr '■ Printing wajs; known in China in the'6th century ; introduced into England about 1474 j America*. 1630. ~. t The great wall of ChinA, built 200 8.C., is 1‘260 miles in length, 20 feet high, and 25 feet thick at the base. Glass narrows first made by Venetians in the 13th - .Polished metal was used b foie.thajty lithe* 77 Meerschaum means * froth of the sea.’ It is white and- soft when dug from thp'earth, but soon hardens.