News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43374, 17 September 1908, Page 1

News Items

During the hot weather, school |f children in Oldham are beuig| taught in the public parks. In 1830 the world contained! only some 210 miles of railway; j there are now oyer 350,000| miles. ’ :J§||j According to scientists, docul i ments written in the ordinary| ink of to day will be illegible m| some 27 years. A 10-year-old Chicago child named Doris Smith can repeat the whole of the “ Merchant of;l Yenice ” by heart. Fine-edged tools lose their J keenness when exposed for long 1 to the sun’s rays, c °

Battersea’s birth-rate for 1907 | was 25.1 per thousand, the low- 1 est ever recorded there.

The Russian Empire com- J prises 8,379,044 square miles, of which 2,052,490 are in Eu-1 rope.

The Order of the Thistle— I Scotland’s oldest order of | Knighthood—was originally es* j tablished in 1540.

In Sheffield, two cricket j accidents recently occured in j one day, the victim, in each! instance, breaking his leg. J The total income of the Eng- .1 lish Bar is estimated at £780,« i 000 a year, or an average income | per member of £315. New Zealand contains an M available coal supply of 1,200,000,000 tons, of which not more ,1 than 200,000,000 tons have % been touched.

The St. Fancias Electricity Department—the pioneer muni- j cipal enterprise of the kind—'l made a net profit of £9457 -1 during the year ending March 1 31.

A small news sheetj has w-’m cently been started in a French :vf provincial town which is printed ffj on flypaper, the proprietorS claiming that it will he both S 1 instructive aud useful.

j The Belgian railway authorities have ordered that all newspapers | left in carriages phall be carefully collected and used for making the cardboard for tickets.