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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4422, 10 June 1909, Page 1

News Items

An English theatre is toll started in Germany , ~ ■gl The Salvation Army has If Anti - Smoking Legion”9| 55,000 young soldiers. §j§| European nations which h9| great congested cities shov9|j decline in individual height. There are at present, 30,91 “Juvenile Temperance Soc9| ties,” with a membership 9| 3,645,028. ‘ ■ TJrbain Dessessart, of Pa9| although blind since childhoHj has saved four persons fr9| drowning. H Daffodils are so called the old English • “ affodyle ’9| that which cometli early—9l cause of their early blooming^B Miss Hill has been appoint® sexton at Crowland Abbey, L® colnshire. The post has held by members of her fam® for 200 years. H The tail of a salmon weighi® a pouud and a half was fou® protruding from the mouth o®j dead eel taken from the ExeS Tiverton A block of flats which 9 being built in New York will fll 12 storeys high, will conta9 2086 rooms, including 49 baths, aud will house a popul9 lion of 2000. 9 There are in France thrH societies for the encourageme9 of aerial navigation, and pv9 £60,000 iu prizes will be op 9 to competition in the course 9 After robbing a bank at Ka9 sas City, a gang of thieves ma 9 their escape on a railway bog 9 which they equipped with a e® in order to increase its speed i ®| Mr Thomas Hardy, who wfl an architect before he became® novelist, has prepared plans ffl the erection of a tower and spi® for Holy Trinity Church, Do® According to an annual ;f® turn, members of the Aneie® Order of Foresters Friendly S® ciety number 1,289,904, an include 14,115 women. Tl® funds amount to £9,154,171, ■ Mr Eichard Lloyd, who is M uncle of the Chancellor of tfl Exchequer, and Mr Willia® Williams have completed ® years’ joint pastorate, witho® fee, of the Baptist Churc® The designation Marquis I the second iu the five orders M English nobility. The ter* originally indicated persons w 9 had the care uf the marches fl a country. The word “ marches* is the plural of mark, which fl its political sense signifi® “ bouudaaies.” Such were tW lands on the borders of Euglanß and Scotland, aud of Eoglaul and Wales. I