News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4439, 22 July 1909, Page 1

News Items

The largest roller-skating riu in England has been built t Ilford. .. . .. -1

Cabdrivers are disappearii; at the rate of 600 a year i Berlin, • - • Ts T o tobacco, cigars, cigarette or smoking materials of .ai kind are to be sold, or supply in regimental institutes tofan person under the age of IG. A Birmingham young lac has achieved a record by sendin her brother a postcard, on whic she has written 1526 words, eac spelt in full, and easily readab by anyone with ordinarily goo< eyesight.

The Crown is purchasing 11,000 acres of the Duke o Bedford’s Cambridgeshire estate j and the remainder is to be ! offered to the present tenants a: ! £4O per acre. It is estimate that the estate will realfee £750,000. ; >| In Turkestan every weddiug engagement begins with the payment of a substantial' conto the girl’s parents* If the girl jilts her her lover the engagement gift has to be returned, unless the parents have another daughter to give as a substitute. The plan is said lo work well, and results in few divorces. ’ ; !

Title hunters should go - to Hungary. There are whole villages, every Christian inhabit* ant of which is a uoblemai. Wholesale patents ‘ of nobility; used to be conferred on villages and small townships in the days when the Hungarian kings wanted to stir up their to fight against, the Turks.

Nasal Catarrh or Cold iu the head —with all its disagreeably symptoms—may be quickly relieved and cured by “ Nazol.’| It is simple in use, powerful in action, and harmless to the patient. It is worth trying, bai cause-it represents the latest adfj vance iu medical science. Each bottle coutains 60 doses, and m sold'by chemists and stores at Is Gd per bottle. As stormy weather comes on, sea birds fly inland in search oft food ; wild fowls • leave the marshy grounds for /higherlocalities ; swallows fail'd rooks fly low before and during bad weather ; frogs are hmusually noisy before,rain ; sheep huddle together near bushes and trees;

The lion. C. S. Rolls, who is to have the fii;st Wright aeroplane in England, has arranged that his aeroplane sha;l,• under certain conditions, he placed at the disposal of the War Office authorities, who in return- ova providing him with a shed l and suitable ground for his experiments. 1

Influenxi often loads to brotv elr.tis. When tho first .signs of influenza appear—such as throng irritation,' phlegm, dullness of the eyes, tightness n cross ihn chest—don’t hesitate, .b nif got a bottle of u Nazoi ” It is wonderful how speebiTv Ci Naze] M gives relief and ’cures. E-mh bottle contains 60'doses,; and ia sold by chemist and ■stores at is Gd per bottle. - v ■'•'yg. ;