News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43352, 21 July 1908, Page 1

News Items

Gambling debts are recoverable by law in France, Spain, Venezuela, and, in some cases, in Germany. •

“ Skyscraper neck ” has been solemnly entered on the list of recognised diseases in New York. The affliction consists in stiffness and acute pain ,in the ’ region of the cervical muscles, and is attributed to the continued strain of gazing up at tall buildings. : r;

The paper manufacturers of Appleton, Wisconsin, says the Paris “Herald, •” suggest that newspapers should luse white ink on black•,paper. . .They.say ’ that old newspapers are unavail- • able for the manufacture of printing paper, but that" they would be available if the new paper was made; black. The Waihi Company have t hired one of the Government diamond rock drills in connection with their operations in the south-east crosscut at No; 9 level Mr. W. Carter, the saperiptejid in charge of ¥ • ■.arrived in Waihi on Friday, v and will j conduct the drilling , operations. A horizontal bore will be put in from the face of the crosscut *. which is going under the Recreation Reserve, with a view of intersecting the lodes comjing from the old Union area, or elsewhere. Three of these drills are kept in the possession of. the Mines Department for boring out purposes. They, have a boring capacity of 2,500 feet, 1,500 feet, and 1,000 feet re- . spectively. * ‘ } The gross earnings of the Canadian Pacific Railway for March amounted to £1,084,986 and the expenditure to £824,780. The net earnings were £260,204, being a decrease of £188,940 as compared with the corresponding month of last year^ Mr G. J. Gadsdon, of Ilford, director of the Ilford Gas Co., who died reoently, and whose estate has been proved at £23,*, 980, directed in his will that his jugular vein should be- severed to make certain that life was extinct. He set out that his medical man should receive. £2 2s for the operation. ' Have you never noticed how dark and dirty looking the Imoleum has become ? Did it never 1 strike you, when using the polishing paste, that you are rubbing in the dirt and polishing on top ? Tan-ol which is a cream put up in bottles, cleans the linoleum first and polishes afterwards Just try it and you will, soon \ot ice its superiority to pastes ?old in bottles everywhere.— f.Vdvt.

If. was estimated at a , meeting • i.f the-Health- Ohihmittee.v of*the Liverpool Corporation that damage amounting to £250,000 had been done during the past year by rats among stores in the ioelrl warehouses, andcargoes iti the i docks. The medichf authorities are to begin-a campaign against

It-costs less money, it needs less labour, it .gives most satisfaction to use Tan-ol for cleaning and polishing linoleum and; furniture than any other preparation. This statement has been verified in thousands of homes whom i J is* in- constant use. It' you have an/ doubt about it try it yourself. If you. want ‘the best results then get the. best article,, which is the cheapest, viz.,- Tan oh It is sold in bottles everywhere. —Tdvt.

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