NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10462, 13 September 1911, Page 4

NEWSY PARS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Three silver pennies recently sold for £602.

One-third of Germany's population is Roman -Catholic.

Chinese divide' the day into tiyelve parts of two hours each.

Last year the population of New Zea~ land increaßed by 31,158.

German silver contains no real silver, but is a mixture of copper, nickel, and /-inc.

The Grey Lynn Borough Council confirmed the need for a picture show censor. There are now about 94^000 men end. women who are certified teachers in England.

Germany's army is carrying out extonsivo manoeuvres in the Pomeranian foirest country.

India is garrisoned by 318,000 men, whoso duty it is to< protect a territ-wy of 1,773,0Cft) square miles.

A New Zealand four has been invited to participate at this year's .Herd *y-on-the-Yiarra., at Melbourne.

The Auckland Railways 0 League is asking Parliament to vote £60,000 for Northern railways this year.

■ In Persia the man who laughs is considered effeminate, but free license is given to female merriment..

A rifla bullet travls at its greatest speed not as it leaves the barrel, but at about 10ft away from tbe muzzle.

Norway fir makes the best masts. Next) comes the spruce fir, the American white pine, and the Scottish pine.

Tommy Burns, the ex-pugilist, will re visit Australia in December. He will probably bring a la team with him.

Of the 234,925 seamen (excluding fishermen belonging to merchant ships registered in the United Kingdom in 1909, 161,712 were British, 43,142 Lascars, and, 30,071 foreigners.

Alcoholic excess is stated to have caused tha death of two men on the North Auckland railway works on Sunday.

One of the customs of the opera season at Convent Garden is that the men members of the chorus must be cleanshaven, and their contract includes v.r> allowance for barber's expenses.

It is rumoured that the American combine which is planning the new palatial hotel in Hyde Park has offered a million sterling for the site and building of St. George's Hospital at Hyde Park Corner.

Although provided with a stinging apparatus, a swarm oi" Ll;u;k be' 33 from Jamaica which have just been added to the London Zoological Gardens nevor sting. Wherefore they are called angelitos.

A Dunedin telegram states that owing to the judges in the North requiring assistance Badly in consequence of the absense of Judge Cooper, and.the criminal business at Auckland orcupying so much tune, Judge Williams leaves for Wellington on 23rd inst., a week beforj (he Appeal Court meets

Amended and aditionul regulations under the Mining Act are gazette;.!. ".>-■ principal clauses deal with the operation of the winding machinery and cages. : There are also provisions insisting upon the-setting aside, of .suitable places.-on each level for meals and of sufficient sanitary conveniences. "i