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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4339, 21 November 1908, Page 1

News Items

“ If a witness is not swofiii.ite| may be sued for slander, ”JM£j| 'fg Dr. Wynn Westcott, at ad , j quest recently “I rembthbfcjf‘'Jl a coroner’s officer making t |t| statements without b®ing-r:|l sworn, and damages being ;;| awarded against him.” The delivery of milk requires 4500 horses. Mexico’s oil volcano is con** Burning 7000,000 barrels a day. . The apple trees in bearing in , Canada exceed 12,000,000, J ; ; while 3,000,000 more are * grown up. In England and Wales, out y \rj of every 100,000 girls and boys y 6820 are called Mary and 6590 William. Besides 100,000 persons who live by dishoneut means, there are 2,000 dangerous criminals, hi capable of murder, in Paris. The Lena, of Northern *|| Siberia, is the straightest river .|f in the world. It runs for nearly y : 800 miles without hardly a § curve. There are five capital offences under British law murder, : 4| high treason, piracy, arson in the Port of Londan, and ak-Ojj tempts to destroy public areen* als. , g : l Students now at German universities number 47,799. In 1 commenting on these figures ? Berlin newspapers express alarm at the overcrowding of ' j the learned professions. According to the Washington ' -=| Bureau of Manufactures, a"- . Galician engineer has invented yj a compound of crude pretroleum jM cinders and sand, which may be Jj used instead of coal. >,r ’ What is probably the firit<-| i direct photograph of a rainbow ylj in colors were shown ,at Eoyal Photographic Society’s exhibition in London It was I® taken on the new auto-chromc i l Wi» SEa! plate. It is calculated that Londoa fSS makes 55,000 tons of soot yearly,- 1 ||j which would be worth as ure about £45,000. There are always 50 tons of soot bus*' pended above Loudon in the yfj , form of smoke. Since the Autumn of 1906 no bacon, pork, or fatbacks ,|| from the Uniced States have been allowed in Germiny, and s| ,for six years the importation . ,qf canned meats into Germany || has beep forbidden by law. What is believed to be the oldest European painting in existence has been found in i Crete by the Italian Arche-j • f logical Mission. Lt is ou ai-^ 1 sarcophagus, aud is suppose! to i Ibvte 2500 years B. C. 1 ■'