News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4404, 29 April 1909, Page 1

News Items

The first white canary on record was exhibited at the Jubilee National Cage Bird Shoifr, at the Crystal Palace, London, recentlyA young woman of twentyfive threw herself off the top- of the Triomphe, Paris, owing to an unfortunate love affair. A member of a colonial firm manufacturing boot polish told a Gisborne Herald representative that New Zealand sent <£22,000 abroad last year for imported boot polishes.

The death of a Taranaki | resident last week was due to a ' complication of internal com- I plaints, the chief trouble, it is said, beiug nicotine poisoning brought on by chewing tobacco. A return just made shows that 146 football clubs and 142 cricket clubs use Eppiug Forest, London, and there are in addition four golf courses, 13 lawn tennis clubs, a quoit club, and a hurling club, while the forest is also used for hunting and military evolutions.

The caretaker of the Lake House, Waikaremoaua, has reported to the Tourist Department that deer are on the increase and are very numerous in that locality; There are two or three different herds at Waihaumoana, and one very fine stag was recently seen on the edge of the lake. ; ! It is reported in well informed circles (says the London Police lie view) that owing to the increasing cost of the Force, metropolitan ratepayers will shortly have to pay an ad» ditional half-penny in the pound for the Police rate. The heavy expenditure for pensions and the possible: grant of the wpeldy rest pay is said to be mainly responsible for the extra

levy. While eating her supper Miss Ellen Pincott, aged 44 years, a spinster, lately residing at 74, Elm Park, Brixton hill England, gasped, fell backwards in her chair and died, A plate of false teeth was found just above the opening of the windpipe, which it had closed, causing asphyxia. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of death from mis-

adventure. “A collision of an unknown dark planet with the sun vri ! 1 terminate life on the eartb, J f said Professor Lowell, director of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arozona, in a lecture. “ The event will be prophesied fourteen years before the catastrophe occurs, and chaotic confusion will reign in the world during the days preceding the calamitv. , ’

It is probable that a large boarding house will be erected at Wellington by the natives of jSew that the required funds—£6ooo • N —should be raised in £1 shares The boarding house, i! erected, will be for tlie use of natives on their bu visits to Wellington.

A queer position in ;ie value of unknown lands i- --.ported from the Waikato. -• m time ago a gentleman, who ides iu Hamilton, sold a sc. wn of laud near Sydney which he had not seen for some thirty years, for a homely ten pound note. It now appears that the purchaser struck a very thing, for on making inquiries he found the laud although burdened with £4OO worth of rates was worth £6OOO.