News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4448, 12 August 1909, Page 1

News Items

The English Channel at its narrowest breadth is miles across. v Grilled grasshoppers on but* tered toast are the latest Parisian delicacy. Love messages on postcards are forbidden by the Russian postal authorities. Over 47,000 lives have been | saved by the Royal National| Lifeboat Institution. “ When you can get a man;’ to admit he is drunk you should'; impale him on a pin and put| him in a museum,” said aj solicitor in the Westport Magistrate’s Court recently. Recently a fruiterer at Kaiapoi found in. a box of bananas a well-developed centipede. Some days previously; on a footpath near the Rangiora railway station' was noticed a fairly large specimen of a tarantula. Both these undesirable immigrants were promptly destroyed. .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 “ Nszol.” It is wonderful how speedily “ Nazol 53 gives relief and cures. Each bottle contains 60 doses, and is sold by chemists and stores at Is Gd per bottle. A centenarian named Join; Burke, who fought in the Crimea, died last month a! Tremadoc, England. Be wa i aged 105, and bore a scar oi his wrist, the result of a swortß thrust. Up to the last winteß he retained all. his faculties and a walk to Portmandoc anfl back, a distance of two milefl in no wry tired him. H In view of the satisfactory financial results of the workinH of Central South AfricrH Railways, Mr. Hull, tIH Colonial Treasurer, will isaiH a Johannesburg telegram) aiH nouuce shortly reductions .H local passenger and goods ratH to the extent of <£4 ( Jo',ooo pH annum, of which £150,0(H will be represented by reducH passenger fares. H Nasal Catarrh or Cold in head—with all its disagreealH symptoms —may be quickly iH lieved and cured by “ It is simple in use, action, and harmless to tho 'tient. It is worth trying, cause it represents the advance in medical science.' eH| bottle contains 60 doses, ■ sold by chemists and stores fl| Is Gd per bottle. ‘ A smart sale is reported | a Wellington auctiouH| Whilst testing in his gramaphoue which had deposited for sale, he was l'H up frum Master ton. The ntflS j up asked who was singing, H j was informed that it wuH| j gramaphoae. “ How muclH ! you want for' it?” | query. “ Four pound ten ! ’HB j the answer. ■ “ All ’take it!” said the Mastc^H