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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8241, 13 June 1905, Page 4

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Mr John Kvaiis, nriiaidout of tho Linrolui>liiiv lied Hliorthora Association, lias just- sold a bull ami two- hoifora iv t-stab-lisli what be believes will be tho first. sJiorthonx herd in Chili.

Thirty-throe thousand cases of Australian apples for the London market have anrived It is expected that this year 400,OQO i-ases will bo received. Last year's aaggrogate was 694,500.

Among the articles left in carriages tmd vlmk-rooins of the London and Southviostorn Railway Company uu<l sold by Jiudion weno 2157 umbrellas, 1008 walking" sticks, 202 pipes, 8 cameras, 13 bottles of wine, and 4 baths.

bathers who would think it frightful Io bo absent from their child's funeral," naid Bufaop Diggle at a Carlisle ohuruh, wiJl stay away from its baptism, which Is far more important. A thousand pounds would not haw kept me away from the baptism of any one of any children.

United- States trains travel 900,000,000 miles and English trains 400,000,000 miles during a single year. With a, train mile«go loss than half that of the United States xoads, the English roads in> 1903 liaulod twico as many passengers, conducted tlueir business on one-tenth.' the trackage, a.nd in doing so killed but- onetenth as many people and injured less than one-tenth ' as many.

It is reported that one firm of music publishers alone estimates its losses through piracy in a single twelve pionths at over £20,000. . >

The formal election of a "lord nislyor" for the village of Rihgley will, it is* uuderetoqd, bo dispensed- with ..this j war. after, being a vogue for more thant a ..century. ' (

After experimenting with American, i oro-~ ductaona, the Egyptian State Railway department has placed «un important order for pataoi bogies and steel wagons w*ifcb the Leeds Forge Company.

Warwick claims to possess in Mifie Owen tho oldest Sunday school teacher in the United Kingdom. She lias taught for 82 years, and, although she is now in her 94th year, still takes a class every Sunday.

Although about 125 years old, a watch owned by? a gentleman in Gloucestershire still keeps excellent time. It was worn at Trafalgar, during the Peninsular war, at Waterloo, through the China war in 1840, and finally in the Indian Mutiny.

"I met. a person sonic time ago who knows Mr Arthur Balfour intimately, and he told me that Mr Bal four's first interest in life was music, his second golf, and incidentally ho thought about politics," said Iho Bishop of Carlisle at a meeting in Carlisle.

Proposals have been made by the Prussian Government, to the Scottish Education Department for an exchange of German and English-speaking student touchers on the lines of tho arrangement- now existing between this country and France, cays the Scotsman

On his deathbed in Llanelly Workhouse Infirmary, Thomas Conaiff, au old Crimean hero, wore his two medals. By a strange coincidence, a 1111111 named Thomas Picton, reputed to bo a. dereudanl of General Picton, under whom Conniff fought, died in Iho same ward (he previous day.

Tl»> K<*v. Thomas Lord, of Horncnstlo, is the oldest- Congregational minister in England. Hi> is ninety-seven.