News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4424, 15 June 1909, Page 1

News Items

In future railway travellers in Arkansas who drink intoxicants in trains or on station platforms will be heavily fined.

Two lieutenants of dragoons fought a desperate duel at Carcassonne because one of them ate a saussage in a cafe of the town ou Good Friday.

A man named Wichtner, who died in Budapest, has left his whole fortune to the one of two bosom friends who displays the. greatest sorrow at his bereave-.: ment. " '

During a performance in A Vienna theatre part of the ceiling collapsed, with the result that torrents cf rain came .down on the stage while the hero was singing the praises of spring.

There has recently been introduced to the Americau public a gramaphone safe lock, which will only open when the owner repeats through the “keyhole 1 ’ a phrase that has previously been recorded from his own voice - .

During a performance. in a Copenhagen theatre a monkey suddenly sprang off the, stage into the arms of a man in ttfi audience. This uan, four year# before, had been the monkey# master. ; - ‘ 7

A cablegram received by Lord Strathcoua, .High Commissioner for Canada, from the Minister of the Interior states that the inrush of settlers from the United States is breaking all records.

In order to draw attention to his wrongs, a captain of the Turkish Army has taken up his position outside the House of Parliament in Constantinople, where he offers to polish the hoots of the members. 1

A return issued by the British War Office shows that the strength of the Territorial Force on April 1 in non commissioned officers and men was 254,524, which is 84 per cent of the total establishment of 302,047.

The Canadian Pacific Company, which, in addition to its railway works, operates gold mines and runs an opera house, has purchased the Magi Springs at Caledonia Springs, Ontario, and is placing the water on the British market.

Mrs Ellen Collier, who failed while carrying on business in Nottingham as a blouse and pinafore manufacturer, has, after nine years, paid all her creditors iu full with 4 per cent interest.

The largest electric power station in the world will shortly he erected within 14 miles of Johannesburg under the terms of a contract officially announced by which the Victoria Falls Power Company will supply electric power to practically all the mines in the great group,