ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 161, 17 September 1881, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Sombthing'Ltke A Ckaim.— "Wi'liara L. Black, on dying at.HaHfaj, a years;* left hia entire estate, worth: halfta million to his widow* thought it wasj^upwn that he had at one Jime intended to* cut Her off with as. little as possible. A .person warned % % Baker claims to have effected tne change bt mind, and he now sues her for 45200,000, the sum. which he says "the agreed 2 togive' him for his services if successful. " Bodt SsATCHiNGt.— The confession of the men concerned m stealing tbe body of Mr. Stewart, fhe American niillirtnaire^ b»v» enabled the r Newspapers to give the najnes, datee, and- references; which throw light nnon the mystery. The narrative is sufficiently "eircam»tantial t» appear truthful . Detail* of the Begpti»tion» be-^ tween the thieves and Mr. Stewart** representatives show that the body wa» fit a j removed to New -Ttrsey^ and then bronsrlitbaok to K"<}w, .yprk ri< aj^£mbaU mcd, ca«Binpr death inoculationto the embalmer. It wtt-^hWfAen to Montreal *,ud bidden *^n.jf barge on the St* T»awyence rWer. Subsequently it wat rea>nVpdntol VSfest QhAstet *yjojfri& (not N«vv JCersev,!. «^ it^toeyioutly sUted;, wbere'ifwOTunedWitspotiiear Mount Veinon, kno\ra only to Edward Kelly* wUoaebJQtiitr va« the ptiacipal lobiier.

A Vaujabmi Elephant. — An ele; phant was recently shown m a jewelry shop at Hartford, U.S. It was a golden elephant, whose head and trunk, were m continual motion. The eyes of this <;lephaat were diamonds, each valued at £6000. Its ears were dec<»ated with solitaries and his feet wer« fettered wif.H diamonds set ia. bangles, aud over its back was a velvet cloth such as is usually worn by .elephants. : -This was bordered by a circle of diamonds, each of two carats, and m the: centre was a crescent (moon and stars) of the purest, gems, while on the forehead was, an immense 1 single stone worth £1000. Probably £7000 would buy- this interesting animal. „. Amenities qv Society Journalism m New Zealand. — The 'Dunedin Star gives (he following account of the horsewhipping of a certain Christchurch paper's agent m that town : — " On Wednesday night a person m Dunedin, wb'oj--it is 'alleged, acts as correspondent of th* paper, received- slight chastisement.. A gentleman well-known m shipping circles, accompanied by a gentleman equally well-known m mefcajiiHe circles, interviewed a vendor of fruits, who is also an - agent for 'the journal m question, shortly after^tisk^witfr the resiilt that the new»ageritlwKo.clajqistpbayei'^a sweet-sound-ing^jaarnev adrai'ted writing for the paper ;^ arid/ added, jocularly, it may I>e presriined, that he was one of the proprietors..;. Thereupon the youager of the two. interviewers proceeded to inflict bodily , punishment with a whip on the shopkeeper,' remarking that he bad betn looking out for his libeller fora fortnight It isistated that after one or two blows had been struck, the shopkeeper told bh assailant that he wai unable to defend bin? sel fon accon nt o f physical . i nfi rmi ty, made soniesbrt of apology, and gave his Interviewers >to understand- that the pavagraph'.that had excited theiv indigaa-' tion was conti i6u<ed by sonieone else. If the affair goes before the CiVyßeucb. as is threatened, some m teresfiiig disclosures may\ be anticipated.'-- One oftho; ■ engaged m Ahty fracas heve< last week has . been summoned 1 to appear at the Resident Magistrate's Court ok Monday. An Oamaru journal states that a .deputation from there was all but arranged^ for, to wait-on the Christchurch papier, when: the telegram arrived that a Timaru one had forestalled' them. * : . TbEb Oiisg' CBNsus^Tne" Irish (remarks - f the are ,very angry with'thfc census returns. 'They show,jt is stated, that while the population of the United Kingdom has,, increased since 1871 to 35, 560,000, an increase of 4,000, that of Ireland ' has , v diminished to «,150,000,>a-16w6t 250,000. Ireland has, therefore-declined from- being half the whole kingdom, as she was m 1811, to only: one-sevenths The number of houses is. also less by- 48-000., Of the total mof e'fhaid a million are Protestants, the Catholics m Ireland- not exceeding four myi.ioM,vpr; less than 12 ..per cent of the whole population of the two Islands. The Irish extreme papers say the decline is due ttf foreign nile, but the same process begins; to b* observable m Sweeden, whicb^is independent^ and fairly happy. The 'truth is, humble people begin to know'that they can' be prosperous elsewhere, and they go. Much of the great Irish immigration comes to England itself, and much more goes, to America; m both lands they are' happier than at horns..^ What is there to rsgretin that ? It is to be noted that the two counties m Ireland, which have increased are Antrim where Belfast Offers work Tor everybody; and Kerry, where the pjirely Celtic population is too poor even for imigration. ' ■"-■■ ' A Valuable Machiwb.— A Pennsylvania railroad Jbas m use an automatic track^tester which discovew faults m the. track not ordinarily appreciable to the eye, and makes a record of them which indicates -their -precise locality, and all this while the machine is passing over the road; at from 15 to 25 miles an hour. It [\ has tHe external appearance of a baggage <ar, but inside is fitted up with self registering apparatus; electric clocks, &c. A bad joint between: the rails registers itself by the jolt it causes to the delicatelyhung cari v Errors' of levejt m the tracks are recorded by. pencils oh ruled paper, and ■o,nicely ; arranged* that variations of an eighth of an inch are made manifest. If the gauge is too narrow or the rails have^pread, thefact iTiiotedby another apparatus. An ingenioug time and distance register enables the observer to locate the imperfection! recorded. A machine of this kind kept constantly going over a railroad would be scarcely lesi carefurthan the track- walker m discovering source* of danger' to travel. The Bb^ibi. o"t the Ferbit Robbery. — The last phase m the romance of the Ferret iff the arrest ef the steamer at the suit ofsome sixof the crew, for payment of the* wages due to them on account of their top ifrom England. Messrs Woolley ahd' Co., the agents for thr - Highland Sail way Company, offered them a smaJljßßniPeacb, to cover wages up to the time of tbet-arriyalofthe vessel at tbisjpoEtj-but the ; men wen advised that tbey^vfereientitled^tb payment of their waffes^ntiLthe -tira^of obtaining their dischwgl^ndfali^ vto competition for breach of articles, and for: the expenses inciaehfahto:the.xeturn voyage to England, This Messrs Woolley declined to graht, and th| present action has been instituted to try -..the question. The form ofthearrett was rather amusing. The ■he^ff, having nailed to the mast a parchmeni'doenment purporting 'to be a- warranff called upon the ship toi iay whatever it could m defence. No answer being given,- two men were placed m pos•eiston;' ; The; action >ill^ be defended on the ground that the men suing are cv* criminals with Henderson, and the other twotconvieted conspirators. A^RuMAWAr OS A Kah.KOAB.-~JI peculiar occurrence is reported to have taken plaoe on the railway line between i Lancefield and Melbourne. A large eight • wheeled bogie truck wm seen to dash tbrpugh the : upper railway gates at Footscray early . one. .morning, and inqinries showed that it became detached at tw lAßctfiisld road station and rand»wn t^^i%^t^elling l 'from, Lancefield road to North'Welbourae m '2 $ minutes or a ue rate of a mile a minute. Luckily, no ▼wygigriousfdama^if reportad to have been done by the truck, which was eventually stopped North Melbourne.

l^i-jhH an h- .-.i ■,•„-■< , - . ■-■ '■■■: "■■<-■> Tftej?tr;eets : pf ICairpare to have their names , inscribed m Arabic and French and the; .houses; numbered, a It^will be the first Mussulman t<ma with such inaica.tionf.