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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6495, 21 December 1881, Page 3

Thera is to be an International Exhibition in Holland in 1883. At Baby, the seat of the Duke of Cleave* lami, a carnage drive run* directly into the great baronial holt. The family seat of Prince Bismarck, Vanin, is a favourite haunt of the herons, of which great care is taken, as an old legend says that when the herons forsake Varsin, fortune far* sake* the Bismarck*. Preparation* are already being cem* menced iu Moscow for the coronation of the Cssr and Czarina. The ceremony is #x* pected to take place in May next,' but the date has not been definitely settled. Pence Bismarck** Pule estate of SehOa* haus •», which hat belonged to the family h-p lour centuries was a present from the Margraves of Brandenburg, and it is there that he passed most of his childhood. The Knglish postal authorities declare that the largest total of words ever despatched from one office in one day was scut from Deeds on the occasion of Mr Gladstone’* recent visit. Bo fewer than 447,374 words were trans* nutted over the wires. This was on a Friday. On the Saturday the aggregate cumber wae 805,378, bringing up the total wired in two days to 653,553. The Russian military authorities are con* •idembly exercised whether to adhere to the present system of military districts, or to adopt the regular army corps, and aa in* fiuential committee ha* been appointed to consider the question, which is taken up os much with regard to the efficiency of the Russian army of the future as of a reduction in the military expenditure of the country. The Very Rev Joseph Memerbasio, vicar of the Syrian Patriarch of Antioch—a see said to have been founded by St. Peter—recently offered up the sacrifice of the mass, according to the Syrian rite, at the Church of 6t. Ignatius, in Baltimore, U. 8., having gone to the United State* for the purpose of collecting money for the Church, impoverished by Moslem persecution in Syria, in Palestine and in Mesopotamia. The Prince** of Schleswig-Holstein, who became Madame K»march by marrying a surgeon of great au’hority but of common birth, doeo not regret her royal title, and her home at Kiel is open to students and artists, and is a delightful and happy one. Their imperial relatives often visit them j far Madame Esmarch is aunt of the future Kmprta* of Germany. At the late Msikal Congress in London the Crown Princes* took great tains to give toe Profesror a flattering iatroauoUoo to\*f mother th* dim *