News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4479, 26 October 1909, Page 1

News Items

A good tea-pioker can pick 20lb. to 301 b. in a day. ( -

There are 16 cables across the North Atlantic Ocean.

Nearly 500 different kinds of tiny shells go to make up chalk.

Kubelik had his first music lessons from his father, a market-gardener.

For agricultural purposes last year 1,494,089 horses ftere used in the United Kingdonj.

For all novelties iu ladies’ wear try the “ Fashion House,” Gahagan’s Economic. —Advt.

Two-pronged forks were made at Sheffield in 1608. Three-pronged forks came into use in 1750.

At Koishikawa the Japanese Government arsenal turns out 200 rifles and 200,000 cartridges a day. As a boy of 11, Dr. Clifford, of pas.} sive resistance fame, sometimes worked 38 hours at a stretch.

For blouses and the newest novelties iu Deekwesr, try Gahagan’s Economic.— Advt.

Until recently life offices were not favourably disposed to insure womeD, and charged' iiigher premiums than they did for men. Three-quarters of an hour is allowed for banks to consider drafts upon them and to determine, whether they are to be honoured. . Don’t forget your yearly purchase of Sharland’s Moa Brand Egg Preservative. Eggs arc now at a price which pays to preserve them. At all stores. See that the full name is on the label.

Turner’s picture, “ Mortlake,” was sold last year for 12,600 guineas, the highest price ever realised for an English landscape in the auction room. The Japanese railways have introduced newspaper reading cars on some of their passenger trains. Tall piles of newspapers are kept at the service of travellers, so that they may read as they ride.

Eggs are down. Now is the time to use fciliarland’s Moa Braud Egg Preservative. It will give you cheap eggs all the year round. At all stores. See that the full name is on the label.

Though a valuable institution, the British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical, and Philological Studies is ono of the least known. The maximum number of ordinary fellows is fixed at 100.

Howards granted by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution since IS24 —when it was founded —include 100 gold medals and clasps, 1247 silver medals and clasps, besides aneroids, binocular glasses, addresses, and £278,896 in money.

Thousands of pounds are saved every year to the Poultry Keepers of New Zealand by the use of .>h irland’s Moa Brand Egg Preservative. If you want to share in this, use it this year to preserve your eggs. At all stores. Sea that the full name is on the label.

A new r by-law has just been put into operation at Paragould in Arkansas, which provides that ’‘any adult found in.the streets between midnight and four in the morning will be fined, unless the excuse given is satisfactory to the magistrates and the mayor,”

An Army pensioner, named Lane, who is in receipt of 10s a week, In s entered Ocgar Workhouse as a boarder, owing to his inability to obtain a cottage. The guardians have decided to charge him 7s a week, ghe him two shillings a week pockeimoney, and hand him the balance at the end of each quarter.

Influenza often leads to bronchitis. When the first signs of influenza appear—such ns 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 contains 60 dosesf and is sold chemists and stores at Is (id per bottle.