News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4484, 4 November 1909, Page 1

News Items.

England has 50 County Councils. British postal orders are issued on H.M. ships. In 89 years Great Britain produced 5,406,000,000 tons of coal. The ooffee fields of Brazil cover 2,200,000 acres, with 900,000,000 trees.

Since 1816 London has spent over 6 j millions sterling on bridges. , ■ Fewer persons are married in Ireland under age than in England and Scotland.

The British Museum was founded in 1753.

There are 7,000,000 cats in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has 13,349 telegraph offices.

In England and Wales 8,667,449 money orders were issued last year. ,

In one year 70,000 tons of sugar are used by British breweries.

Sixty-six out of every hundred persons in England have lightcolored eyes.

The Bank of England is said to keep over £20,000,000 worth of notes in reserve.

The first iron bridge in the United Kingdom was constructed at Coal* brookdale in 1779. The record attendance for an International Association football game is 121,452 spectators. Waterloo Bridge, London, ’ cost £BOO a foot, London Bridge £2,200, and Westminster £390.

A man named Pusskorin, a gardener in St. Petersburg, has succeeded in producing a black rose. The Post Office last year delivered 860,000,000 postcards in the United Kingdom, and 2,907,000,000 letters. Last year over 21,000 steam and sailing vessels were on the registers at the ports in the United Kingdom. A goose has been known to live 50 years, a swan 100, a sparrow 40, a hen 10, and a robin 12 years.

The oldest national flag in. the world is that of Denmark, which has been in use since the year 1219. s Paper for the beautifying of walls in residences was first introducecbitito Europe from the East, in 1625. : Out of 28,598 applications for patents in the United Kingdom last year 16,284 were granted, and 5965 trade-marks were registered.

In every thousand persons in England 68 are named Mary, 66 William, 62 John, 61 Eliza, 39 Thomas, 36 George, 36 Sarah, 33 Anne, 31 James, 23 Charles, 21 Henry, 19 Alice, 18 Joseph, 17 Jane, and 16 Ellen.