News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43317, 25 April 1908, Page 1

News Items.

Some 2500 families about half of the landj-pf; United Kingdom. There are 256 rail, stations within a radius of St • Paußs -Qathed] London- , . : ; ' The clock of St. Cha< Shrewsbury, has . a ree pendulum, i its dength 22ft, and the/weight of the l aooib. ■ ■ ■ r At a ball in Cleyels (Ohio) the guests came drest as and the ballro represented a children’s pis room, ’ 1 , \ *l.; i The statement is made tl 55,000,000 cabs ■ and otf vehicles passed through i Liverpool - : street Static London, during vlast year. The King* has conferred t Volunteer Officers’ Deeorati on Lord Kbberts,~ who is hbr rary colonel of the -2nd Lbnd Yolunteer Rifle- f 'orps. 1 r The death , - was announc recently of Dr. Ay of Colt Lancashire, aged 9T/ Who w the oldest practitioner on t English medical register. , Never put aOpJano betwei the door and a window. ..AJ : ij

should, he lit every, now &«§§{§ in the room where the piano If a piano gets damp it goWifl out of tune. ; ■ Elsie Burkhardt, Of was recently awarded a prize WBB that city for. the beauty •<of Hl|f||| hair. Its length is 197' centMHl metres, or about 77fin. »|§i The Fishguard FencibleHiß who won fame by their e 9Jj|| ploits during the invasion Hh 1767, are to be revived the new territorial scheme. 4 ■ ' mSB The New York J Board Education has decided, by. !i®gjjj| votes to 17 to prohibit tMjlll infliction of corporal ment in the public schools (H| v . >■ '—>•. Medals and certificates life-saving were presented year to 14 London children. There are now 114H||||J schools affiliated to the kondoHßgj Schools Swimming AssociatioiM||j| The Austro - HungariaMlJ Minister for War had anpointeHgjjl a Commission to report on indebtedness of the officers the army. The total debflHH notified up to the amount to £1,200,000. A Franco*Chinese Society duflH| been founded in Pans, and thHra president has received a lonfl|H letter from the Emperor cH||| i China expressing his wish fcBS! an entente cordiale betweeiHH France and... the Celestiwj|jj Empire. . / t .• ■§§l

The fees and bpdrding d Harrow; School-faf ter. the £2 of entrance fees—amount t £144, and, including clothd and pocket-money, it cost £2OO a year to maintain a bo there comfortably.

- M. Sanloa-Dumontshas; Ip* the bet which he made with M Charron six months ago tha within that time He >voul build a hydroplane capable v travelling ,at, the rate of 6 an hour.' \ pi

For LadieS, Neckwear, Belt Laces, and Ribbons, a large/ riet • at less than Auckland-prices, Tr ; - ■■ ■ / -- . ' l Gahagan’s Economic; j.. ■,