News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4483, 2 November 1909, Page 1

News Items

In active service the death*rate among Army officfcirS is heavier than among the rank and file.

Nearly all of the 15,000 inhfibitanti of Marchnenkirchen, Saxony, lie sn* gaged in violin making. ' The value of the fish (exclusiveof salmon) landed on the coasts of Eng* land and Wales last year wa§ £8,038,720.

There are no unincorporated bufld* ing societies in Ireland, and them have been none since 1896 in Wales and Scotland. ,

About one* sixth of the people em* ployed on sailing and steam vessels belonging to the United Kingdom am Lascars. -'f

Against receipts of £524,095 Ifst year the expenditure on the light* house service of the United Kingdom was £469,253.

According to the “ Indian Spectator,” a curious marriage, is 'reported from Kathiawar, where a man of 70 has married a girl of nine. In England and Wales in 1907 fewer than one in a hundred and wives failed to make a definite statement of age in the marriage register.

When ladies go to buy a dress in Japan they tell the shopkeeper their age and if they are married or not, because there are special designs for the single and double relations of life, as well as for ages.

Fellows of the Royal Society* weigh on an average 1611 b., and are sft inches in height; members of athletje associations 1441 b, and sft Bin; policemen and fire-brigademen, 185 lb, and sft TOin ; and burglars and convicts 1401 b, and sft sin.

Nearly everybody smokes in Manila, even small children. It is not an unusual sight, after sundown, tosecja father out for a stroll with hi* jrife and children, and eveiyj, .ohß of them over the age of five years smoking t • cigarette.

It has been calculated that a day makes a difference of qvcf £IOO,OOO to shopkeepers in the WjSit* end of London alone. While nbae|y all classes of tradesmen are grumbling and groaning, , the tobacconist, hog* ever, cheerfully rubs his hands .vtfiß rain increases his takings by about ,15 per cent.