News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43326, 16 May 1908, Page 1

News Items.

I ■ .. • It is _that tourists . speed £6,000,000 a year in Smteerltadi - I The record frequency of; I lightning "flashes in England is 25 to tha minute.; , ! A. pair of engine idriving Wheels are ’.reckoned to last about 67JOOO; miles*/travel. | I • ;*< • • v ’ 'J, i ‘lm€hift»the property. . tie father must be equally divided among the children. /: The largest military band is thatii of>;tlie *■ Belgian - Ouides. fbete are 100 performers. | The oldest bring Sootemau is said to ,be (Archibaii MabRrunnion, of Skye, aged 109 j It is estimated■■■■;that ; at. least 42,f10b m Yieiina" are ■Hong better brings than ( ;: : i -• ■ ■■... if i The second section of the| foreign (> Enlistment Act has;i SO7 single? ’ , <-m The average price of British caught salmon is £llo a ton. a average catch is -3300 ims \ v :>r Wm Ifetohy which; has similar" effects 1 to is; prepared ffom the x gum derived fronf Indian hemp. ; jvT/i, v N \ •. • ’ On certain race-days as many | as 180 special brains' work inn abd out of Waterloo Station, | London. ■ . ;■ . - V | To test a diamond,' place thef finger behind it; if the grain ofe| the skin is visible, tha ! stone is;| not a diamond. r 1 • ‘ '•.;£* [ There are > 300,000; “ one- J room dwellers •** m;Lohdon, and Manchester has - 31,000 'who are similarly f 4

• The beech ktesaoften struck j| by any- other tree; 54 oaks are struok for one beech. \ j k

At Uffley, Herts, the parents gf of either bride or bridegroom attend the ceremony in only ofie|| out of 30 cases.

Ireland’s wheat yield is 3Tj'@ bushels an; acre—that is nearly vf five bushels an acre better than that of Great Britain.

! Robert .Womack, who dis- Jf covered Cripple Creek, the wOrld?s m greatest gold earapj§| and sold his claim for £125, isH reported to be tUving-pn ;; at Colorado Springs, and ■a , sUbscriptioni for his relief has >•> been started-;?^-The camp has | yielded £59,500,000 in gold since 1891. ' ; ? 3 " Lg®

iThe small town ipfriWerda, in the kingdom, of Dahomey, is:, f celebrated- for .itstemple of serpents* a long building in which the priests keep upwards *| of; 1000 serpents of all sjpes. ;f These they feed with ffids | and frogs brought to them as: offerings by the na- | | tiyes. Prob«blv the oldest. nvy-,^ alive is Hadji Raouf, who lives in Constantinople, and | is said to be 135 years old, He still works at his fession of saddle maker, and has -J never' left the house he, was born in. His father is believed to have lived to the § age of 142. For Ladies, Neckwear, Belts Laces, and Ribbons, a large variety tat less than. Auckland prices. Try". ■ Qahagan’B : Bconomic.. : J