News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4430, 1 July 1909, Page 1

News Items

It takes a year for the bite-H a rat to heal up. I A bull 'in a rage will frfl quently become quiet at tfl sound of a fiddle. . ,■ The, total exports of Turk® annually amount to about foul teen million pounds and til imports to twenty two millicH pounds. ■ At a recent sale of wi® animals in Glasgow, a “boxin® kangaroo fetched £B9. I.os, al a laughing hyena £29 Bs. :■ Billiards was invented by;® pawnbroker in the sixteen® century. He used to - push rill three brass balls—the in sign* of his trade —about his count® with a yard stick, using box® fastened to 1 the sides of hi counter for pockets. ' The number of-smacks employ® in deep-sea fishing in the Nor® iu the North Sea are about 500® They fish' in fleets' of 150 vessel Over men are employ® iu this fishery alone and. th® remain at sea never less, thal two, months at a time. I The 26th annual report of'jjt]® British Comptroller-General m Patents shows that in 19.08 there were 28,598 application for patents, 572 of them fro® women. The total receipts of thl department were £297,335, <1 which £262,890 was fro® patent fees. ' ' The Woman’s National Healtl Association of Ireland has on tained from the Admiralty 1 thl lease of the disused coastguarl station at Sutton, near Dubliil which it proposes to convert inti a convalescent home. Oth® disused stations may also n leased. 1 The Shakespeare Memorial f o be erected 'in Southward Cathedral, will take the fori of a semi-recumbent ‘ figure, <1 the poet in alabaster enclosel in a beautiful Gothic screen anl canopy, and occupy a recess ini mediately under the Shakespearl Spenser window.' 1 M Having survived for 52 yeail with his spine broken but til spinal cord intact, Joseph Alcocl who was well known to summel visitors in his donkey chaise ofl the Yarmouth Parade (Eugl died at the age of 72. The gal of a wherry came down with 1 run and broke his back when hi was 20. —J i The following notice has bee posted up in the Sacre-Coei Station of the paris Metropolita Pailway: “ Burglars are liereb informed that neither cash c j other valuables are left here x night. We would request thoS whom it may concern to ar: quaint their comrades with (hi fact, thus sparing us inon vcni-nee and themselves a Jos of time.