News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4413, 20 May 1909, Page 1

News Items

An artful smuggler detected at Aberdeen had concealed tobacco and cigars in a sealed cylinder which was hidden in a water tank in the galley. ,- ~ g

The Chinese of Hongkong have subscribed in two .days £BOOO to the fund for the establishment of a university.

So many languages are spoken s in the provinces of Austriai* Hungary that interpreters employed in the various Parlia,j ments to interpret the speeoheS of the delegates and make theta intelligible to all members. vM

Through a delay in the steamer arrangements,' a lady, 5 who had travelled all the way from Waikaremoana to Napier to hear Madame Melba, only ar*| rived at the theatre in time tc hear Melba’s last encore number. , ,

At the suffrage meeting in Glasgow the other day, onej of the speakers said there were foui classes of women who Opposed women suffrage. The first clasjsj were those women who were frightened of men, the second those intimidated men, the third those who despised other women and the fourth those who were in the clouds and who were afraid that if they got a vote it would bring them down. - -I

A Christchurch dootor ho|j writen to the Canterbury Af| and P. Association' protesting against cropping the manes and docking the tails of horses! He is denoting a special priZej Ito the horse section of the next show, but stipulates that the prize must not be given to a horse cropped or docked. \ $ ' A copy of the Western Daily Mercury, Plymouth, Eoglandj has reached the Wellington office of the Union Company It is dated about the time of wreck of the Penguin, and coa* tains a harrowing account m ■ the disaster, mentioning that “ 700 lives were lost,” and “ a| the boats were rotten!”

Snow i 3 already causing sotnl trouble in the Mackeu2| Country. Mr J. S. Eutherfoc? stated to a Timaru Heral| reporter that on his station 'I well as on other stations, therf had been a deep fall of snow and the result w r as that in man} parts they were unable to get a the sheep for mustering.

The Bluff Harbour Boar< j adopted a recommendation of it< | Harbour Works Committee i the effect that its employees b prohibited from smoking whil ; at work. The heads of depart meuts are given discretion: I ary power to allow a short cos .sation of work for smoking whe c. ; r cum stances will permit, ' 1

* : A friend of mine cam act oss a native sitting in th verandah of a house from whM groans proceeded,” said Mr 1 Thurston at the Eoyal Societ of Art in a lecture on the na tives of Southern India. H learnt that the man’s wife wa sitting ou a swing studded wit j sharp nails in order to cure lii| by sympathetic magic o l son j triiiiug ailment.”