News Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 166, 22 June 1901, Page 4

News Items.

"Haughty-culture"' is the favourite pastime among, the "invited few." ins Wellington just now. Jhe ide* of' he people being roped off atfjthe reception, fet>t they should ge& * iwphin coo-ee of Royalty and the highly plect, . is. making New Zealandera popeable. The difference between repar'ee and impudence is the size of the man wbo uses it- . According to an observant spU'Bter, honeymoons are going nut of fashion in New Zealand. Ann Eliza would be an appropriate name tor a lady chemist or analyst. Shark was barred as a table item at Hoiorua - dur'ng the native feofestivities.

When a roan owes a good round «um he usually finde it difficult to square up Houses which are damp because of proximity to undrained land may be rendered more hab'table by planting the laurel and the sunflower near them. St. Petersburg's-churches-are the mos splendid of any modern churches in the world. The Shah of Persia possesses a jewelled sword valned at £IO,OOO. Capetown enjoys a certain distinction in respect to the, height of its constables. The tallest is a giant 6ft Bin> in heightThere are five men ranging from 6ft 3in Jo" 6ft Bin, three men between Sft 2in a> i 6ffc 3in» twelve men from 6ft lin to 6ft 2in, and seventeen between 6ft and 6ft lin. Among 100,000 Germany, there ar* twenty-one suicides every year, most ot them aged between twenty and thirty. London ia eighteen miles broad on e way and seventeen miles the other, and every year sees about twenty miles of new streets added to ft. | Sycoeo is the material wed a 3 a substitnte for sugar. Its sweetening power is 560 times gteater than sugar. Oxford is the largest university jn the world ; it has twenty-one, colleges and: v /■-•■■'■'••■ *. ■