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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43365, 29 August 1908, Page 1

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In a large Swiss factory there-j is employed an ausomatic machine for threading needles that is reported to have a capacity of j 1000 needles per minute, itsl operation including the needle propelling knots, cutting the returning needle resting place. Among the in the band of Light Infrntry who when a near the bodies ■BHHffiMq after - the > battle. Captain de christened James became the pet of Copper is hardened as to take a cuitingl edge by adding to it, while in a molten state, about 2per eery of potassium ferrocyanidecolor is not affected. The rea- : son for the change is not but it is supposed to result from the introduction of iron andpossibly carbon. | i Superstitious people have beenj flocking to Duttapuker (India), to view a strange date palm, measuring 25ft., which stands erect in the daytime, ;bn£|jwith the decline of the sud bends so i far down that its leaves touch! the ground, ■' The value of the gold import? ed into the united kjmgdbm in the four months ending April 30 this year was £16,824j776,:j<raj compared with £16,353,862 in the first four months of 1907, and 16,102,931 for the' same period of 1906. The Russia Duma commSfeidiN on the drink question, has r& ported in favour of removir® the Imperial Eagle from th® labels of vodka bottles adjl stituting a skull ahd icross-boiM denoting poison, with apprhpj j ate rarnmgs against overindu® gence. . *; I Though delayed for 1,8. hoiM through an accident to oaq 0 I the propellers. the North Germiu Lloyd liner Kronprinz' Wilholrr which arrived .at recently from New; York, no 'complishcd the voyage .fran New York in six days si iit hour a i 1 55 minutes. .