News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43320, 2 May 1908, Page 1

News Items.

A London policeman arrests! r on an average no more than nine I persons in a year; a Pasisianl gendarme arrests 28.' _ I '■ . . ~ •••• I In Norway vaccination /is J not compulsory; but a person I cannot vote at an election unless! he has been vaccinated. ; The first experimental train I which crossed the Forth Bridge I was driven by the Marchioness ! of Tweeddale in fB9O. I ■ to he bird that ! 401 b when food is plentiful, I Brighton; Hamburg, and New York have tbe findst l aquariums 7 of anjr cities. _ The I Brighton [Aquarium has 41 I tanks. '■ , I ‘ Fifteen .years ago the average I number of fatal acoideotsih ;Swiss Alps was 24. Now/it/ is I nearly, three times that hum- J her. , 1 1 ! An elephant,works from , the j ;age of twelve to 80. He can I fdraw ,a load of 15 tons, lift half I la ton, and three tons oii'/l ;his back. > I I -Dejv will on; a/J board painted yellow, slightly on one pointed' green, but m t at all onboards painted red or blabk. _ ■ On the banks of the River Purus, in houth Amerioa f are ; found a small tribe Df whose dark skin is spotted with,y lighter blotcaes. . r

• o —' — ■ / V . The colony of i Barbary apes / on Gibraltar, the only onein Europe, is regarded as sacred,' and none, of the animals may be /' killed. . The collection of palms in Kew Gardens ; London, is much larger than any other in the world, nearly 500 species being represented. The Bank of England employs about 1000 people, who receive yearly £250,000 in wages and salaries, and oyer £30,000 is paid in pensions. ' . • . • ' V ' ■>' V. • , A memorial tablet has been erected by the London County Council on No. 70, Knights- , bridge, S.W., where Charles { Reade, the famous novelist and i dramatist, resided at one time*/ f V-* :• ' ■ V /t;* Telegraphs were, transferred |to the State in Great Britain in Jr’ |IB7O. The arey ncw" 51,483. - miles of telegraph-line* and '/• 554,500 miles of wire. • * , V. The “ Ridings ” of York-' shire are so-called because under the Saxon rule Yorkshire was 5 divided into three parts,, or •/ ■“ trithings*” “ Riding is- / simply a corruption of:A f‘ trithing.”

, At tho banquet given at the opening of the Royal' Albert ‘ Docks, in dBBO, there was a/ mile and a half of tables and;\| tablecloths. Part of the dessert ■ ■ was a ! quarter of a ton of grapes ■ and one ton of strawberries. The Chicago Pullman 0 r Company recognises the value ;-v of politeness as a business jisset. The company has just/; distributed the, sum if £175,00 > among its cohdubtors and,;;/ porters who have been reported upon as showing proper oouvtesv to the company’s ' | customers during the past . year.' A sum equivalent to a - month’s pay has been sent to j ;fach man. .. 1 JFor Ladies, • Neckwear, Belts a>ces, and Ribbons, a large variety . I. ess prices, Try [Gahagan’s Economic.