News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43369, 8 September 1908, Page 1

News Items

Miss Sarah Bramley recently in Nottingham #brk> J

house at the age of 109/ .Be?|f cords show that she was/; born 1 on May 17, 1799, and f:entered’ 'i the workhouse 50 years ago. /j

One of the solicitors heard in the Chancery Court; London, the other day, was Mr fj Letter, who is 88 years• of age,S and has practised his profession for 66 years.

The nut trees of the world could, it is calculated, pro\ iie ; ||| food all the year mind for the j population of the globe.; Brazil/I j nuts grow in such profusion ■ that thousands of tous of them | are wasted every jear. \* .‘/"I j MfSSttS I The frog barometer, used in Germany and Switzerland, is a J > yery simple apparfm, consistiigofajug of water, a frog, || | and a little wooden step ladder. !if the frog comes out and sits SI on the steps, rain is expected.

The Japanese Government ijl censor of literature has for- J bidden the sale of a translation of Zulo’s “ Paris.” A year ago |Jj the censor forbade the publi- 1 cation of Tolstoi-s “Anna! Karenina,” as well ns several of Maxim Gorky’s novels.

In accordance with the l| desire of Charles Dickens that no memorial to him should!" be 1 erected, the London County 1 Council has refused the offer of

Mr Percy Fitzgerald to place a: \j statue of the novelist in the Embankment Gardens.

The British mechanio is the t best in the world. Britain has Jj some first-rate educational 9 centres. She has uot as many as she might have with vantage, but at auy rate she is f fortunate in not having so i many as so spoil her mechanics. | —“ Diamond Field Advertiser,?’ f Kimblerley. A year ago we were in the -m flood tide of prosperity. N-fS | i r "'C§ nearly half a million lying empty on the traces, • mills aie closed or half time, and railroad* are m dismissing employees and dis I emtinuiug the work or ex-’ljJI tension and improvement Mhete- i ever they can.— u Leslie’s J Weekly,” New York : . I