News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4343, 1 December 1908, Page 1

News Items.

The greatest depth to which 1 ; a submarine boat is have descended under full con* \jm trol and without injury is 138 o An apple grown in the or- , | chard of the Mayor of Orepy- j| en-Yalois. France, measures no less than a yard in circumferThe “air fox ” or mouse, ” of Borneo is a moth, JJ This queer creature has a head | shaped something like that of Vj a fox or a mouse. The French postal depart j ment has authorised all postmen- | in the Alps, Pyrenees, and 1 Yosges mountains to their daily rounds on skis ; j when necessary. I The world’s production of yi|| wine is estimated to amount toy-JR 4,000,000,000 gallons annually. || Eighteen times as much fj strength is needed to j climb stairs as for the same distance ‘|l on level ground. 1 French theatres give Id per ! j cent of their incomes to . thesf§| poor. This gift averages H £3,000,000 a year. 1 It takes 50 nests to mafeo; 9 one pound of Chinese bird’s 111 nest jelly. 1 Mile. Florence Kindermsns 9 dropped dead in a churok atSIR Brussels while being married. , 9 An eagle , can live 28 days 1 without food, while a condor is 9 said to be easily able •to.ifast fl for 40 days. The first iron bridged erected was in 1793-6, at Wear*-.9 I mouth. It consisted of a 240 ft 9 J clear span. At a sale of coins in t Kew B York, a half-dime, dated 1802, fl realised £143, 'shile a coined in 1793 fetched £l6. JH Liquor selling was prohibited JR as early as the reign ofgthe JR Saxon king Edgar, who closed fll hundreds of alehouses. 9| The tobacco monopoly ~ hus : jH yielded the Austrian Govern«>j|J ment the enormous nett profit 9 of £5,000,000 for one year. The majority of members Of 49 the Warwickshire Territorial 9 battalions are engaged in the cycle trade at Coventry. HR The first successful display of BR eleotric light was giveu by Sir9| Humphry Davy in 1810, He showed an arc light three * inches long, ( Camels, mules, and donkeys:Mß ( exist in large numbers, and dre9| | the principal means of l runs-MB portation throughout the whole'll of Morocco. HR ; Duriug the first week penny postage to the Unit* JNM| States 89,000 letters have sent from London. . ( 50,000 were sent iu the prev*9H jous week. - The Scottish Football iatiou has decided that uUyHR player taking part in Suuday^B football would not be eligibleflH for the association’s compefcb;*9

A portrait of Chaucer, oti-.fl panel of date ld8(J, and also and also one of Henry IV. oj England, painted iu 1405, air£ said to be the oldest paintings known in England.

A landlord cannot entd premises by force, even if tl tenancy has come to an en| If his right to entry is contesltj he must take proceedings the recovery of his proporiv^ ttt — •!- . fr* .—. . .