News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4473, 9 October 1909, Page 1

News Items

The Czar of Russia rules over one-sixth of the world. The estimated war strength of the Spanish Army is 200,000. The amateur running record for 100 miles is 17hrs. 36min. Msec. Over £7,000,000 is spent in a year in wages for the British fleet. The Standard Egg Preservative is Sbarland’s Moa Brand Egg Preservative. Years of experience with it only strengthens its claims. At all stores. See that the full name is on the label* Lord Rosebery was the first chairman of the London County Council. It costs Great Britain £2OO to train a boy to become an A.B. in the Navy. The amateur swimming record for one mile in still water is 24min 42 3.ssec. Three-quarters of the population of Spain are engaged in agriculture. French Deputies have now to sign a timesheet on entering the Chamber. Year after year brings increasing proof of the value of Sharland’s Moa Brand Egg Preservative. Thousands swear by it. To be had at all stores, see that the full name is on tho label. The population of the Germau Empire is increasing at the rate of 900,000 a year. A crop of rye, some of which is 7ft. tin. is to be seen at Ryton-on-DuLS • more, Warwickshire. It is estimated that last year £1(55,000,000 was spent on drink, 'of which Britain got £38,000,000 in the way of taxation. Over £1 2,000,000 in duties on tobacco was collected in Great Britain for the 12 months ending in March 31. | In 1801 the first horseless vehicle was ? constructed- It attained a speed of 10 miles an hour and was driven by steam. i Max Derewski, the youthful musician, who is only 12 years of age, recently had to memcrise nearly 2.000,000 nottis in order to pass some examinations. Thousands of pounds are saved every year to the Poultry Keepers of New Zealand by the use of Sharland’s Moa’ Brand Egg Preservative. If you want to share in this, use it this year to preserve your eggs.; At all stores. See that the full name is on the label. The number of letters delivere 1 by the British Post Office for the year ending March 31, 1908. was 2,863 900.000, or an average of Co per head of the population. According to newspaper calculations Mr. Rookfeller’s benefaotions now amount to about £24,000.000 as compared with Mr Carnegie’s total of £27,800,000 The British Empire has 23 completed, docks capable of taking a Dreadnought at normal draught; the German Emniro (5; France 5 ; and the United States, 5. Ton years ago Germany had seven battleships in full commission ; she now has 19 battleships, including three reserves, as against the 26 and 36 of Great Britain for the same period. Nasal Catarrh or Cold in the head—with all its disagreeable symptoms may be quickly relieved and cured by “ Nazol.*’ It is simple in use, powerful in action, and harmless to the patient. It is worthtrving, leciuse it represents the latest advance in medical science Each bottle contains 60 doges, and is sold by chemists and stores at Is 6d per bottle. I Racehorses are the best risks for horse insurance companies. It isn’t that they f never die ; they do. But they considerf a‘ely wait until their racing days are over, and the policies on their lives have b j en canceled. The costliest dresses in the world are worn by women of Sumatra. Th<'y are made of pure grid and silver After the metal is mined and smelted, it i 3 forme l into fine wire, which if woven into cloth , 1 and afterwards made into dresses. I Florence Nightingale received a sum of } £50,000 for her services ns a nurse dur- ■ ing the Crimean War. With this money I she founded the Nightingale Ho ue for » Trained Nurses. She is Ihe only woman J who has been awarded the Order of Merit. [ Influenza oft«n lead* to broruhitis. When the first signs of influenza annear sneh as throat irritation, phlegm, dullness of the eyes, tightness across the chest.— don’t hesitate ant get « bo tie of “ N-r----zol ” It is wonderful how speedily “ Nazol ” gives relief and < ures. Fa ll botlle contains 60 dose*, and is «olrl by chemists and stores at Is 0«1 per bo tle. The well-known ph\sicia*\ Sir Dvee Duckworth, R<ates that a persistent fever in persons under 30 years of »g», without obvious signs of misclii‘ f . is iilwavs most suspicious of -onsnnip iou, even in the absence of obvious d< lieacy and any family history of the disease. M. B’eriot’s monoplane, the fir t plane to fly across the Channel, Ins been purchased bv the “Matin’’ fertile sum of £4OO. The mroplane is to be j. y. sen ted to the Government, who willpl aeH it in one of the Freueli Museums. The longest single span of wire in fh--n! world is used for a t,c 1 "graph i j slrefobel ever th" Fiver Kistuah, be. | twren Bezorab and Spctanareum, Trdiu. It is over 6000 ft long, and is carried fiotit 1 the top of one mountain to that of an- , other.

Herr Arno Unornor, aGwnuin invent" living in New York, has offered to h« 11 at his own cost an airship which he ci - clams will carry 200 persons, will tvnv 1 .WO miles without, a lauding, and will attain a speed of oO milps an hour. He says the cost will be £12,000,