News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43386, 17 October 1908, Page 1

News Items

The National Convention for closer union took place at Durban yesterday. For stealing three ears of maize s peasant at Senita,, in Macedonia, had his ears cut oft In consequence of the great distress in Belfast, the corporation has decided to start relief works. Mr Viljoen, of Zeerust, shot 20 elephants in an hour in Rhodesia. His shooting party bagged 81 elephants. Experiments are hofQg carried on in the navy with man lilting kites, and to show at what depth a shot ceases to be effective.

Capable of lifting ;200 tons, a monsterfloating crane has* just been completed by a German engineering firm for a - Belfast shipbuilding company.

The total amount of the funds voluntarily subscribed to enable Count Zeppelin to go on biiilding airships is up to to-day £175,000. The report of the Lunacy Commissioners shows a steady increase of insanity. Intemperance is one of the principal causes of lunacy.

Residents of Ehgland have £110,000,000 invested in mort* gages in foreign countries. These investments annually drain the foreign countries of about .'25,500,000 in gokLcaeh.

There is an unusually large number of black swans on the--Washdyke lagoon at present—more, probably, than have ever been seen there before On Sunday, the Timaru Herald says the lagoon was literally blatslc ; from top to bottom with them;^

That a much broader view is being taken of conventions is proved by the fact that many of the wo men H followers of the Devon and . Somerset staghounds are astride, this being one most important meets, A Featherston other day, while doing ;Spnj(e carpentering, put a chisel on of a post, which be commenced hammering lower dowu. The% result was that the chisfd fell v and cut the back of his hand, necessitating surgical aid and causing temporary disablement^ Sacks of potatoes have b‘*-n sent to Conn' Zeppelin b r German peasants who had no money to subscribe to the Zenpelin fund, hot wor bv bis conraore and dev-e the fatherland. Mrs "Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roosevelt have })Pon decorated bv thefhiltao up 7 key with the je tv els of the of Nichan Shefakat. which h for it' motto, Pity, merekindness.” The first, summons un<il ~r , ’ 1 -' new Kent Control of Roo-s ' V ! 1908, which ..provider «b * doers shall be allowed «i*b ,1 sunset and sunrise <\'-e effective restnint, w •- > the Bromlev Court latelv T’ * ownorof ’be anim *1 in i . was ordered tu -b,.