News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4443, 31 July 1909, Page 1

News Items

One hundred and / sixty miners at Durham have been sent to gaol for non-payment of damages caused by their stopping work. v

The Hon. Jas. Carroll states that since 1906 areas aggregating 1,530,129 acres of Crown Lands have been leased or sold in New Zealaud.

Two motor racers in a Berlin i \ cycle race collided, and their petrol tanks exploded. One, enveloped in flames, headed for a densely crowded stand, setting fire to women’s dresses. Four were killed and 32 injured.'

An old woman named Rosalie Jamen who went to the poorhouse at Nimes (France), has found herself possessed of £BOOO. Two mattresses which she had been bequeathed were unpicked, and £4OOO in bank notes was found iu each. Influenza often leads to bronchitis. When the first, signs of influenza appear —such as throat irritation, phlegm, dullness of the eyes, tightness across the chest—don’t hesitate, but get a bottle of “ Nazol ” It is wonderful how. speedily “ Nazol ” gives relief and cures. Each bottle contains 60 doses, and is sold by chemists and stores at Js6d per bottle. l

The Turkish woman is marriageable at the age of nine years, and by Turkish la,v at that age, if married, she is competent to manage her property aud dispose of onethird of her fortune. The law allows her to abaudon her husband’s house for just cause, / and will protect her in so doing. She cannot be compelled to labour for the support (f her husband. Nasal Catarrh or Cold in the head —with all its disagreeable symptoms —mav be quickly relieved and cured by “ Nazol.” It is simple in use, powerful in action, and harmless to the patient. It is worth trying, because it represents the latest advance iu medical science. Each bottle contains 60 doses, aud is sold by chemists and stores at Is 6d per bottle. Many children apparently.?' merely exist in Wellington. , 1 : It; was shown at a meeting 'ofb (hoi Trustees of the Benevolent Institution that a large family of children had been practically starving. Rations had becu granted, aud the children, who

before had “been always ailing,’’ are now normally healthy.

A new type of bullet, for which much is claimed by its inventor, Mr H, F. Chaffey, of Christchurch, has just been patented. The new bullet is perforated longitudinally, so that the frontal resistance of the air is reduced, and the vacuum in its wake “ ventilated,” so to speak, by the rush of air through the back of the projectile. This, it is claimed, will make for increased velocity.