News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4374, 16 February 1909, Page 1

News Items

#’■ • lUm ''■h . -c J Mr John J. Donovafl, a New York official, found it difficult to persuade the police of his in* nocence when he was jarreijited at night in the .street wM a ' dark »> jemmy, /Almpk, and a bit and bHce in llaljgir session. He had been attending a rehearsal of amatedf theatricals in which he is to take the part of a burglar. At a London theatre recently a lady on her way to the stalls,told by an attendant Ihat she must remove her headgear, seemed embarrassed, and said, “ I canhot.” A man accom? panying her remonstrated j whereupon she took him a few steps aside and said in an audible whisper, “ You stupidl; Some Of my curls are fixed to my hat.” The couple left the theatre,

Mr Edmond Rostand, autho r of Cyrano de Bergerac, has announced a new play for next month in Paris. In it there are 100 characters, and all the peri sonages represent animals. A whale nearly 40ft long came ashore on the Panipani beach, Tauranga, just at the entrance to the harbour, a fetf days ago. When found by some natives it was dead, and: during the work of cutting up two harpoons were found in it.

Two sons of Mr John Close, of Murrungowar, Victoria, aged three years and seven years respectively, died a few days ago from the effects, of eating unripe fruit. The remainder of the family, four girls, the eldest of whom is 13 years of age, are in a precarious state frgm the same cause.

Twin brothers have been arrested and imprisoned in Paris for the 40th time for vagabondage. The two men are 39 years of age, and they have never left one another since their earliest years. Neither of them has ever done more than two days’ work at a time, and they have always taken care to be arrested simultaneously for the same offence.

A petition against tho imposition of a dog tax of ICs has been signed by 250 ratepayers of Waihi.

Constable Driscoll o£ Waihi, has accepted promotion to Pori' Albert where he will be in charge at that place. He lea „.i in a few days for his new quarters.

Mr H. P. Hornibrooke, the wc’l-known mine manager, from Coromandel, who has many friends at the Thames, is at present on a short visit to that district.

Thirty two years ago yesterday, Graham Bell invented the telephone, Abraham Lincoln was born on 12th February, 1809. Another interesting auul ,rsary was that of the proclamation of the consliiution of Japan in 1889. According to our Dunedin correspondent, the No license party there have nominated f heir candidates for the licensing election, and there is everv prospect of their being elected. Their election will mean reduction of ten houses.