News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43327, 19 May 1908, Page 1

News Items.

'At Kenmare Castleispri served an. enormous dockleshel It costs s£2v4s per ton mor to build a vessel in a, Frenol ydrd than it doesin an Englisl one. A woman has been awarded £125 damages in a court at St Louis, Missouri, Against a mat wild called her “ an old-hepSS Ayj (Delia Paterson, an old girl, 0 has confessed ft committing 50 'burglaries a Chicago jEor, the sake" of' (he excitements

.... s , ; , # • ; Five’ children have, just been born to: a woman at Steuben* villejOhio:* Three";df the infants did not live long,, but two are healthy and strong. Dr. Disburg, a Paris physician, has invented; a r cure for nail - biting in children, ;It consists of a bit, which prevents the jaws dosing;- and the inventor suggests that ■„> it might be used 1 with i advanl!a|je by many adults., A new Church in Paris, ift the La Koquette quarter, is said to be entirely made o| paper, rendered impermeable by means of a coating of quicklime' mixed with curdled milk and white of' egg. r vlt accommo* date 1000 “It is a hoble 5 old writes in agreed ing to become a patron the| English: Bowling “ I have a peculiar interest ;in| it from the fact that I owii the| lawn where Evelyn and Pepyisl used to play.”,;.'

The . English Parcel Postal Department i undertakes; thfe collection of parcels at | intervals from the, . of firms or private perspinß when| the number to be amounts to as'many as fen at a * time, or 50 a week. *

The Eorsway is said to be the oldest and longest, of British | roads. Old writers say that ifctj ran from. Cornwall to Caithness'" ; but no traces can be found south of Bath. Watling << street ran from Kent through London tof Carlisle and Newcastle.

An endurance race from SanrJ Francisco tn Washington (2500 i miles) for a bet of £IOOO has ; been arranged between the| champion ' Arab horse of the.| New. York Arab Horse St/ock| Conipany and the Canadian j stallion Shamrock, owned by\ Mr Fred Cornwall, of •Ed-;| monton.

A 12-year-old boy named. Cedric Houghton, whose parents live in Boston, has just, passed the; Harvard* TJai-y veTSity entrance examination The examination is intended for youths five or six years older v ; and the incident is without parallel in the history of the University.

A woman who was sent ;to prison in New York for begging ; proved to be Mrs Abr:tham § Greenbaum, the uifeof arestau-J rant owner,., She stated thut as 4 her husband’s income of £l3 a ' week was: not sufficient to;allpw | her to dress as she wished, she J adopted this method -of obtain - ~ ing the price of fashionable - gowns, in, which .she visited theatres. 1 J