News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43314, 16 April 1908, Page 1

News Items.

Daring March , M passengers were camels ovs the Christchurch tramwaj system. •’. •.'... .*' lafej Sheep are dying in th< Merriwa district, New Souti Wales, through being infected with the lung worm. ij The Laplanders are tl| shortest people »in Europe, thl men averaging 4ft. llin., thj woman 4ft. 9in. # j Brazil, the hnestftQit*growm| country on earth, spends ovei £200,000 a year oil imported The same force that moves J ton on a smooth highway wifl it is said, move eight tons fsn I railway or 32 tons og a canal. /A resident of Nelson has maize growing to n ofl probably forms a record foj New Zealand. - Spain possesses the riches! silver-mines in Euiape. Eon many years she' producecjj annually 120,000$ of silver.] But the oldest silver-mines! belong to thq Erze Gebirge, between Saxons and Bohemia. ’

Eabbi Goldstein, of . Auckj land, protests against the ide as stated by the ChristchurJ Society for the Prevention fl Cruelty to Animals that :® Jewish method of killing cattl is necessarily cruel, contendinj that it causes less pain than an other. . *

Army surgeons state thatt| expressions on the faces ; | soldiers killed in battle indical the causes of death. Thod who have perished from. sworl wounds have a look of reposj while there is an expression v pain on the countenances d those slain by bullets. An Indian mutiny Cetera named Denis Emjnedfr aga 86, died at Rozelle, Sydney, ?cj April 4. He the mutiny, and belonged M the Bengal Infantry. Durin right eye shot out andlripl arm blown off. He had .beenj pensioner since 1858., I Some undertakers, who! oustomers are poor, are ''Usui coffins made of paper. Thj are made in all styles of prigM paper pulp, just the same as ti common paper buckets. Whl they are varnished and. stain! they resemble polished woj and in point of durability ifcl claimed they are much bet! than wooden ones. * /J!

u Bill, yer forgot yer whij (( Never mind, I got ‘J angwidge,” was the responi The wit of the jehu, hpwev belongs to the Austral bullocMriver alpne. day, in the Gore district, three horse teain played roughly on meeting a mot car, eventually breaking shafts of the loaded grain ,ci The driver, like his Austral prototype, used his 4 langwidj and with such enthusiasm t

a lady passenger iu the remonstrated with him, desii to know where he had acqu: such a lurid tocabuj: 44 Madam, its a gift,” jer out the incensed jehu, and lady was disposed to agree $ him,