News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4444, 3 August 1909, Page 1

News Items

Dundee exports over 1500 tons of marmalade a year. Last year 22 sentences of the 1 “cat ” were inflicted. Deaths from consumption in London last year amounted to ; 6419. The entire space covered by the Tower of London is about 13 acres. Salaries of the British Boyai Household amount to £193,000 annually. London possesses one-seventh • of the paupers in England and Wales. Nearly 1,500,000 law cases were fought out in the various English courts last year. Over 8000 lives have been lost in British colliers during the past 8 years. Norwegian and Lapp 3, . the tallest and the shortest people in the world live side Side. • During the present financial year Ireland will contribute in Imperial taxes approximately £8,434,000. :: ■ Airship tickets for a trip from l Friedrichshafen to .Lucerne " will cost £ls, and those to Hamburg £25. It was in order, to meet the cost of .the French war in 1798 , that the Income Tax was first imposed iu England. The Surrey County Cricket Club is the oldest. It was founded iu 1844. The Derbyshire Club was founded in 1845. ' • The new labor Exchanges proposed by theßritish Government will, at the outset, entail a cost of £2,000,000 a yeafr. The conference of the Underwriters’ Association, sitting in Wellington, decided that no increase for fire insurance rates be made yet. Influenza often leads to bronchitis. When the first signs of influenza 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 contaius 60 doses, and is sold by chemists and stores at ]s 6d per bottle. Those astronomically inclined will be interested to learn that during this month Mars was 5,000,000 miles nearer the earth than ever before. In the British mercantile marine there are 40,000 alien sailors who receive pay to the amount of £2,000,000 a year. , Last year 264,647 coupba i were married in England and Wales, or 14.9 per t]ious\iid. This is the lowest rate for 12 years. Great Britain consumes 47,000,000 c.vt’ of meat a year, or 1201 b. per head of the population. Of this 54 per coni is produced at home. Nasal Catarrh or Cold in the head—with all its disagreeable symptoms—may be quickly r<.. lieved and cured by “ Nazol.” Tt is simple in use, powerful in’ action, and harmless to the paTient. It is worth trying, because it represents the latest advance in medical science. Each bottle contains 60 doses, and is sold by chemists and stores at 1 s 6d per bottle.