News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43323, 9 May 1908, Page 1

News Items.

, - The oldest trees in the worlJ are Xfrican ;: baobabs, , One/ ij estimated to be : 5700 yean oia * :: /: . d Among- the birds the sw j lives to be the oldest, in extrema cases reaching . 300 years. Thf falcon; has 'been known to live over 162 years. The largest bed of salt in the world is said to have beei discovered at Port M’Mhrray, Manitoba,.. It is 200 ft. deep, and; extends for 300 miles. vSI ■,.. ■ ■ ■..... '; .;-i■. Trained falcons to carry dispatches in the time of war have been tested in .the Eliasian Army. Their speed is . ’ foifc times as rapid as that pf carrier pigeons.' / A man of 72, named Stubbs has won a 300 yards race at Heide, (Germany, against a 20year old horse which had been a famous racer, in .its younger days.

Eight hundred boys. attend > iug the Eussian secondary schools are to be taken on a fortnight’s sea cruise for the purpose of popularising the naval service. ■ • Bir Frederick Bridge will make a tour of Canada in the spring with the object * of establishing musical reciprocity between Great Britain and Canada. - \ A sentence, of 52 consecutive attendances at : Sunday school, was imposed by a magistrate at Geneva, New York, on two boys who had been arrested for. theft. . ~ Only one unmarried woman remains in New Ashford, Connecticut, and she , teaching in a school to marrying any of the many young men in the district, The French Academy had refused a legacy of £4OOO for ihe purpose of reforming the morals. of Paris, left by a French lady. Mile. Leclerc, who recently died in the United! States. tt/k After living 25 years ltiyag room in New York which he t j permitted no woman to enter,4 Henry Bergman is dead c He bitterly hated all women / because of trouble early in l with his wife. N .. ... v Vaudeville performers ini Chicago have been from performing on the stasej made up as either Mr Rockefeller;: or Mr Carnegie, as such;| representations haw led '.toy disorderly scenes. ■; An expeditionary force of the'? Canadian North-West Mounted i Police has arrived at BaWsonfi City, and reports a rich; gold strike which-is said to havei; been made 60 miles east of! Herschel Island. i! - j Mr Herman Tappe, aNew f York milliner, was surprised a customer asking him to do'|sign. a spring hat for her pet! that will set off the lines on hi si (face ” she said, calmly. When! 'he refused, she left in much! i wrath.

i A Paris journalist has : founded a babies’ club; It is V ;spacious and pleasant buildjiir. '{with a garden and a club/4 house where games of all kinds .are provided. There is a.Pundid? } * dvV" and Judy show, and a cafe,| ! where sweets, cakes, tea, ini l .:, * aid various kinds of lemon. d« , are sold to members and fchi ddf i parents, while there are .also I innumerable toyshops and ai; theatre./ _. . .'j For Ladies, Neckwear, Laces, and Ribbons, a large varietH at less than Auckland prices. i Gahagan’s Economic. > I / d;3