News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43337, 13 June 1908, Page 1

News Items.

I In Germany/ savings - bad ■ officials visit workmen’s horn! on pay -day to collect thd savings for banking. It is estimated that nearl! 4000 acres of cedar trees as cut down annually to. pro via the material for lead •pencils. | The banyan tree is remark able for the fact that its tranche droop down to the ground am take root separate sterna. ; j Miss Anna Morrison and M Thomas Alexander have behi married on the top of- tht Washington Monument, al Washington. The only thatched churcl in the United Kingdom h

at Markby, a little village three miles from Alford Lines,

Mr Henry Clarke, a 70-year-old resident of Providence (R. 1.), declares he has been cured of all bodily ills by adopting a diet of soz. f of fine sand daily, 'slf Members of British friendly societies numbered 2,467,800 in 1906, as against 2,375j903 in 1905. The total assets in 1906, amounted to £52,960,807, compared with £49,941,142 in ,1905.

Thirty - four thousand one hundred emigrants left Italy for transoceanic countries during the first three' months of the present year. In the corres •' ponding-period last year the' number was 102,949. . The German Emperor owns the most valuable . board in existence. . The light; and dark squares are . made of silver and gold, as are also the draughts, each having a dia- j mond or ruby in the centre. '- | Have you never noticed how dark and dirty looking the I linoleum has become ? Did it/ never strike you, when usings the polishing paste, that you are rubbing in;the dirt and polishing on top ? Tan-01, which is a cream put up in bottles, > cleans the linoleum first and polishes afterwards. | Just try it and you will soon notice its superiority to pastes Sold in bottles everywhere.— Advt.

A year ago a burglar entered the shop of Mr A. T. Strangeway, at Middletown, New York. He has now returned the money he stole with a letter of* thanks, stating that his circumstances have improved.

A man who died at Eisern* brod (Bohemia), left a will directing that his collection of 80 walkiog sticks were to be distributed among the mourners. This announcement brought over tvo hundred persons to his funeral.

It is estimated that 150,000,000 tons*-; of coal are ; used annually by the, railways of the United States, out of which but 7,500,000 tons are used in drawing the trains, while 142,500,000 tons go up the smokestacks. It costs less money, it needs less labour, it gives more satisfaction to use Tau-ol for cleaning and polishing linoleum and furniture than any other preparation. This statement has been verified in thousands of homes where it is in constant use. If you have any doubt about it try it yourself. If you want the best results then get the t; best article, which is the cheapest, viz., Tan 01. | It is hold in r bottles everywhere.—Advt.