NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 137, 10 June 1911, Page 16

NEWS TIT-BITS.

Only the poor are troubled by ft.-. consciences. That's why they're^ A touring theatrical company !,„„ ■ , been founded at Moscow in i hLh » actors are peasants. dv tn ß Over six million acres of lnr,j o-tobneeo cultivation ££$£*

The village of Duflon \v„.i has yell.l r t \ h c c o r'! nd ' by purchasing a hearse. *' Corona t'oH

Two enterprising London girls ar „ • breaking mt„ a &- - A man who has died at Ptevnine »f £Xi ';;msx'-£« s;:;i,;;'; 1 ;.ri,;. , ; 1 ,,?.''" b, "™"i»

Dormant funds m Chancery noff amount to £1.1,0.000, the distributed over more than 3590 Be ™ 7 ate accounts. r ar "

Said a woman witness at Willesder, Pol.cc Court; -My son always *£% fore Ins supper." Is the point of this rl mark to be found in the word "before?'

Each of Ix.ng George's sons will «. eetve £10.(10(1 a year from the Civil on attaining his majority, and eael, daughter £0000 a year at her majority or marriage. J %

I nder the proposed new Copyricht Act an author's copyright would run to fifty years after his death. As Mart Antony said. "The evil that men do lives after them."

Georges ( apitaine, a young French, man who returned from America to ac eomplish his military service,- was informed at his birthplace, Montmorency that he had been dead for several years! A Newfoundland dog, as foster mother, is suckling young wolves at the London Zoo. this plan being adopted in order that they may not grow up fero. cieus.

That rare event, a ruby wedding, was celebrated in Balfour village, Shapansey Orkney Islands, recently by Mr. and Mrs. John Orever. They were married in 1841, ami their respective ages are ninety-one and ninety-four years.

X-ray tests have proved that Johnson, the champion pugilist, has a skull more than half an inch thick. It is stated by the scientists who examined him that a blow which would fell an ox would hava, very little effect on him.

It is difficult to follow the argument of an educational journal of Buda PestS, which complains that there are only 16,000 schools in Hungary, while the number of cafes is 60,000. If a country is Hungary, it must have cafes.

In order to encourage marriage at church instead of through the cheaper medium of the registrar's office the rector of Devizes, Cornwall, decided on Tuesday, with the approval of the vestry, to reduce the wedding fee to 6/6.

The Church Army has purchased 4 former residence of Henry VUL, and "converted it into a home." The thought of our much-married monarch with six wives and no home-life is heartbreaking.

Rather than work for "twenty-five, bob a week," said., a British Labour, M.P. the other day, lie would go ahd drown himself. \Vhat we like is the really candid chap who says, rather than work at any price, he'd become a white-winged seraph.

The Peace spirit has evidently got a firm hold of the German Chancellor, for, if rumour is to be relied upon, he has decided that the next German Dreadnought shall be called The Peace Maker. That should shake some of you unbolievers to pieces.

In gratitude for the old-age pensioli granted him, Charles Quins, a roof thatcher, of County Monaghan, has expressed his desire to be allowed to thatch the roof of Mr. Astniith'a residence at 10, Downing-street! H» probably knew, that it had a slate roof.

A recent action for breach of contract against a firm of Rugby engineers occupied thirty-five days and cost about £20,000. Counsels' fees were £7000, solicitors' and witnesses' and other costs £11.500, and shorthand notes and transcripts £1400. The verdict was for £3535, with costs on the higher scale.

The West Ham Guardians take a gloomy view of the Coronation weather prospects in London. The "Express states that they "have decided to provide Christmas fare for the inmates of all the institutions under their control in Coronation week." We hope it wont be as bad as all 'that.

The child mannequins from six to eight years old, advertising the latest "creations" for little girls, attracted much attention at Longchamps racecourse, Paris, the other day. They were accompanied by two adult mannequins. The novelty was received by the spectators with disapprobation.

'Hie foundation of Normandy a thousand years ago by the hardy Norsemen from Scandinavia is soon to be celebrated in several ways, the most striking being the project of seven Norwegian students to row from Bergen to Rouen in a boat which will be an exact copy of that in which King Hugleik, with his Viking, rowed up the Seine in A.D. 010.

Giro's famous restaurant at Monte Carlo has been sold to a small English syndicate. The price paid is said to be £34.000. Ciro's in Monte Carlo is the place where the millionaires and the plungers go to lunch and dine. It* perhaps, the most expensive establishment of its kind in the world. M. CSW himself was once a poor Neapolitan waiter.

While bathers at the Richmond puhhe baths have a real grievance when they find long stray hairs floating on the water and petting into their eyes and mouths, the Council, in decreeing that all bathers should wear head-coverings, has surclv overlooked a much simpler wav of dealing with the difficulty. Why not insist that the ladies leave their hair at home? \ liomhav solicitor recently received the following amusing letter from one of his native clerks: "Honourable Sir, kindly excuse this poor servant from attending on your Honour's office this day. as I am'suffering from the wellknown disease commonly called ache of the interior economy, and I shall c er pray. Yours ever painful. Ram Chun dpr ; p.S.—O death, where is 1"/ St The "Hospital" says there are no fewer than forty theories which have at one time or other been put fonvard" account for the increase m the frequency of appendicitis, nnd it is no unfair W say that not one of 'them has a* ye* be'eu proven. From which i woulO seem that doctors don't seem to know much more about "PP"* o *"?**JS majority of them know about mo* other troubles.