News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 7 September 1909, Page 1

News Items

A penny weighs one third, of an ouuce avoirdupois, j ' .

Chiuese divide the day into 12 parts of two hours eaen.

Seven-eighths of England’s tea is obtained from' India and Ceylon.

Frosli Eggs—Cheap Eggs—Eggs in ; | abundance, can be bad all the .-year 3 round by using Sharland’s Moa Brand „ Egg Preservative. At all stores. See > that the lull name is on the label.

The trial qf the ten Mile End guardians last year cost the State £3885.

One mile five hundred and fifty yards is the length of the course at Henley. -

Au ouuce weight is supposed to represent the weight of. 640 dry grains of wheat. • Lieut. Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition is said to have cost over £40,000.

Study economy by purchasing .eggs during the cheap season aud pri serving them in Shariand’s Moa Brand Egg .Preservative. It will keep fresh eggs in new laid condition tor an ludonuite period. Thousands have tiieu it and will confirm this testimony. At all stores* Wee that the lull name is on the label.

British possessions last year sent England imports to the value of £120,828,058.

The Nelson Monument, in Trafalgar Square, London, was erected at a cost of £45,000.

Of the last. 20 contests -fori Elcho Challenge Shield, at Bis- < ley, England, itas won .11, Ireland live, and Scotland three; while last year no award was made.

A man’s full mental piwer'js not reached before the ago of 35, and the development of talent is most marked between the ages of 30 and 45 years. ‘ ,

Kasai Catarrh or Cold in the head—with all its disagreeable symptoms—may he q'uifck-ly relieved and cured by “ Nazol.” It is simple in use, powerful in. actiou, and harmless to the patient, It is worth trying, because it represents the latqsfc advance in medical science. Ecfch. bottle contains GO doses, and. is sold by chemists and stores at Is Gd per bottle. i ,

» The nerves are all copnected I with the brain, directly or by the J spinal marrow. .These nerves, with their branches and minute ratifications, probably exceed 1 10,000,000 in number.

If two tuning forks of the same pitch are placed lacing each other, the one sounding, the other silent, in a few seconds one will he giving out a distinctly audible note. •' 1

Your after year brines infreisi-oj proof of t.ho valin of Sii irlaiul’s M Jframl Egg Prcsdrviirive.. Thonifcinc'g wear by it. To i d had at all st ires, soo that the full u line isn’t the l ibol.

11l connection with the. Labour exebauges proposed bv tie' British Government, 800 officers will be employed at salaries totalling £95,000.

The smallest known races are some negroes living‘among the other negroes of Cent'a Africa, one tribe of,whom, call© 1 Akkas, dwell on the west of Lake Kyanza. The men and women of this tribe, who have been seen, by many travellers, are only 'lit high. They kVe by flinmsi Ives, in .separate comin unities.

Inliucnza often lends to brorchitis. 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 u Kazak” It is wonderful how speedily “Kazo}” gives relief and cures. Each bottle contains 60 doses, and is sold by chemists and stores at Is Gd per bottle.