News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4427, 22 June 1909, Page 1

News Items

Disabled teachers in. Munich receive pensions of 75 per cent of their salaries, and a schoolmaster’s wife who loses her husband gets three-fifths of his salary, with an allowance for every child under 20.

At a meetiug of the Queen’s < Hall (London) of the Eoyai National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, it was stated that during the past year 3000 religious services, attended by 50,000 people, had been held at sea. ■

Mr Robert M. Thompson, a i:| New York financier, intends restoring the famous fortress of : > Ticonderoga, near New which was built by the French in 1755, and presenting it to his daughter as a summer residence. v. |

A huge conger eel, which had ') left the river and made its way up a small stream threading the marshes near Boston (Lihcs.),. H was stranded on the falling’ Two meu secured it just before the tide came up the <a?eelyag|ij|. The conger measured itss,. Wk in length, 23in. round, a4is weighed just 401 b. * * The smallest on record has recently Winlssued by the Stationery Office. This is the “ Standing Orders -of the * House of Commons for public r and private business,” an annual publication that has hitherto * appeared in folio size, butis now h such a tiny volume may be easily stowed away in a member’s waistcoat pocketr #

When the name of a ctyld was. stated at a Battersea inquest to be’Sunny Jim Pinchiu, the coroner remarked : “ I do think children ought to be protected against tliis sort of filing.” ' “ Do you call me a wild man,” a witness shouted at the top o£ his voice during: a Hackney inquest. il Wild is not a proper word to use, and I’m nqtai wild' man. I won’t have any im- C pertinence from a coroner or any one else.”

The Liverpool Post tells of a Birkenhead church secretary who announced in church one Sunday that a Shakespearean recital in character would he given. When he was informed that the recital would not be given “in character,’’ he corrected himself by saying, ‘'None of those taking part in the recital will be dressed.”

Education is receiving con-' siderable attention in China at present, and. it is stated that there are about fifteen thousand Chinese students in Japan who, after being educated, are likely to take up positions as teachers when they return to China.

Lord Alverstone, the present Lord Chief Justice of England, distinguished himself as an athlete above all his fellows. In his palmy days he was thesmartest runner oi lier Cam-i bridge or Oxford has produced. His equal has never been seen in the two mile inter-university