News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4338, 19 November 1908, Page 1

News Items

A total of 880 patents haye been treated at the Dunedin.fl Dental School since its incep* tiouj about fifteen months ago.j| Ten students are in attendance daily. “ Why don’t you go to work ? 1 ” asked a man. u Look here,|| mister,” answered the unab* | ashed mendicant, n I have to answer that question so much that it’s getting to be just the same as work.

A Timaru banker estimates that the banks are worse off by £4,700,000 than they were at this time last year, . A South Canterbury horsewoman has entered for one of : the jumping competitions fory hunters at the Timaru A. and IV Show, and intend to ride her owrfv hunter. V

There is to be an innovation in yachting in Wellington this V year—a race for yachts steered by ladies. Next year it is hoped y to have a race for yachts » “ manned ” entirely by ladies. At a foundation-stone laving in connection with a Wesleyan Sunday school at Leigh on*Sea, a two-months old baby girl j handled the trowel, being held by its mother while the cere- J monv was performed. M Frank Wiugate, 98 years old, who was buried recently at I Durham, left 73 descendants—seven sons and three daughters, j 2(5 grandchildren, 33 great- I grandchildren, and four great- j grand-children. | Captain F. Biddington, of thej Yorkshire Light Infantry, if I practising at Folkstone for hisJ I attempt to scull across the I English Channel. I He made an attempt last! year, but ran foul of the Yaine.;| I Ban iu mid-chaunel. 1

An old font, at which the novelist George Eliot was baptised, has been discovered $ Chavers Coton, 'in Warwick; shire. It was often used?A| those famous characters, M| Gilfil and the Eev. Amos Baitonj •former incumbents of Chilyerjs Coton. '

Mr William Willett sta‘ j that two towns in Canada hag already adopted, his “ more da| light ” scheme cn their own n* sponsibility, and were duly *<.'l tling forward their clocks i the summer months.