News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4456, 31 August 1909, Page 1

News Items

Saddles were iu use in the third century. •. Three silver pennies recently sold for £602. *

Artificial legs may cost as much as thirty guineas each. London streets' were "first" lighted with gaslampsin 1814. ' >

England imported over five: » millions pounds sterling of tobacco last year.

A negrG woman has been licensed to drive a taxi-cad in

Paris.

In Budapest is a school where people are taught the art of eating.

One-third of the county of Dumfriesshire is owned by the Duke of Buccleuch.

Dr. W. G, Grace never made a pair of “spectacles” in first class cricket.

Last year the Director of Public Profecutions in- England prosecuted in 559 cases.

Three tennis-courts have been laid out iu Pittsburg, America, on laud valued at £200,000.

More than half the recruits for Continental conscript armies can neither read nor write. 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 “ Nazoh” It is wonderful how speedily “Nazol” gives relief and cures. Each bottle contains 60 doses, and is sold by chemists and stores at Is Gd per bottle.

In tin cabin of the Kaiser’s new racing yacht Meteor IV., which has been built entirely by German workmanship from German materials, is au oak armchair presented .to Emperor William by King Edward, made from the bulwarks of

Kelson’s flagship Victory,

1 Lieutenant Shackelton has ac- ! cepted au invitation to become | a Younger Brother of Trinity j House. This is only the second [time in tlio history of Trinity j House that such a distinction has been conferred.

i Wild animals can new take their own pictures. A piece of t string is suspended between two I trees and when the animal comes in contact with the string it fires a fuse-catridge and opens the shutter of the camera, which ! thus automatically “ snaps ” the animal.

Kasai Catarrh or Cold in the head —with all its disagreeable symptoms—may he quickly relieved and cured by “ Kazol.’’ It is simple in use, powerful in action, and harmless to the pa*, ticut It is worth trying, he. cause it represents the latest, advance in medical science. Each bottle contains GO doses, and is sold by chemists and stores at Is Gd per bottle. Mrs. Brooks, widow of a c plain in the merchants service of Montpelkw, Writ lie. near Chelmsford, who is probahlv the only peison living in England who saw Kapoleon, is now in her OSth year. As a small child she wjs rowed ac*-ogs Plymouth Sound when Kapeleott was on boa'd the Bcllerophen.