News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43354, 28 July 1908, Page 1

News Items

The two crimes which are ‘ decreasing most are arson and

coming. It is claimed, on behalf of an 1 automatic money assortor which | has been, patented in Austria, 1 that it will assort metql coins , | which have been thrown together j regardless of their denominations placing each denomination in a ; J separate basket. The roof of the nave of Salis- T bury Cathedral (Eng.), which is y now being repaired, is covered j with sheet lead containing a X large quantity silver. In f ;§ order to prevent it being exchanged for inferior metal, the y plumbers employed on the work are required to melt it on the cathedral premises. The British Admiralty has appointed th% Rev. Paul Bull, of the Community of the Resur- v. rection, Mirfield, to the Impregnable, the naval training ' ship at Devonport, to conduct a ‘ | mission on purity and temperance among the boys. Mr. Montague Sharp, J.P.j has presented to the Kingstonon Thames Museum the remains of an oak stake from the bed of > the Thames at Brentford, which formed a part of .the ancient British palisades defending the ford at that place. - - The output of pig iron in the x United States during April was 1,149,000 tons, as compared with 1, 228/000 tons in March and 1,080,000 tons in February. The producing capacity on April 30 was 263,000't0ns weekly, $s against 266,000 tons on March ■"> 31. ■

It costs less money, it needs f less labour, it gives most*''' 1 satisfaction to use Tan-oi 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, i If you want the best results , then get the best article, which' is the cheapest, viz., Tan 01. • It is sold in bottles everywhere.—Advt. i

\ The "English Civil List now iucludes only the expenses necessarily involved in keeping Up the household of the Sovereign. A total of £470,000 per annum is set aside, of which £IIO,OOO is for their Majesties’ privy purse, and the rest'devoted to defraying salaries, expenses, etc. ' The Levin Farmer says: It is * stimated that .at the present i ime there are nearly 1,50 ChinaI’ten in Otaki and Te Horo. A number of quite young bovs are among the number. The Maori population cannot be much more. l»v and bye the young Chinamen will marry MaorilialLcastes, and a mew , race will spring up on th?s coast.

‘‘ I believe, ” said Mr. T._ Mackenzie, in a recent speech, “ that it .was compulsory in Raratonga for a lady and gentleman going out at night to each -carry a torch in their right hand, the penalty for a breach of this i law being six months’ the roads. And, ” adlflHHH speaker, 1 I have neraJflH||ggg| better roads in those of Have you

dark andj linoleum! never sta the pn^fl