ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 162, 21 September 1881, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

I Leatheb Lun<jed Dick.-— The corresdentofthe Timaru Herald records the following little joke which occurred the other morning about breakfast time : — 1 "Mr. Seddon affected to be, very indignant because the Government -would not allow any adjournment for meals, and ; expressed himself ■omewbat m this style: -^'JDham astonished, sir, at the hattitude auumed by the Government. I ham, et j, «tci' Mr. Pyke .interjected m a stage whisper 'Whyj you have nothing to com "plain of. Teu'vehafl your mouth ful pf ham for the last half h©ur.' Feeble you will say , perhaps — but then you must remeiffiber'th^yTiad'beeh up all night." A Chinese Iktitat* oar.— ?On invitation to a Chinesefea^t the proper thing is t return the card of invitation with a pre- ! sent of money if the invitation be re-, fused, and, even if accepted, to return a present of money. This , money is not the; perquisite of the servant, but is duly .entered m the master's ledger,' and for ever forms a precedent' between tho. ? •tw6 persons. ! If aretnrninvitation isgiven .the first in viter returnsi exactly the same sum. .The persons first, invited makes the rule! It is claimed that many wretched literates 'make a handsome profit put of the dinners they give. Watbr Scake is StDifET.— A Sydney telegram of August &3 says : -^-" A new scare has occurred, creating at the utmost ■larm m; certain ; portions of th# city,: it being believed that, some mischievQua persons had tampered with 'the water supply. Hundreds of cases were'reported this morning -of people who had been renr idered sick affer breakfast by drinking thrs water supplied by the' mains. Some deleterious mixture had evidently found l its way into the wells, consequently rendering the water nndrinkalile. Great excitement prevailed throughout Woolloomooloo at breakfast time, when the discovery was marie that the tea wa« spoilt liy the bad water, melt of carbolic acid. A large number of persons proceeded to tho city Engineer's office with samples of the mysterious and disagreeably fAuid.^ dc-*

manding an explanation. Reports soon poured m from various parts of the city, and lond and angry complaints were mafle of the disgusting taste of the water." Upon investigation it was discovered that a quantity of drainage from a newly tarred street h-jd found its way into the main. Queensland Transcontinental "Railway. — A wording to General Fnlding, the Transcontinental line will bp about 2000 milr-s m extent, the cost of construction being about £8,000,000 exclusive of loss of interest until the line could be made reproductive, which end the syndicate propose to attain by settlement concurrent with construction. General Feilding goes on to say:— "The Colony up to December 31, 1879, had ipent £5,044.203 m railways, being an average of £10.028 per mile. It was not fair to include m this the cost of the line over the Ran^e— probahly about £40,000 per mile — but there was' still a large margin between £10,000 and £4000. Supposing that money was at 4 per cent, the average earnings of the railways showed only 2| to 3 ncr rent interest on the capital expended. This would leave 1£ per cent, loss on every mile constructed, or £50 per annum, (he gross total loss on the whole railway being £100,000 per year. It was not fair, however, to compare Transcontinental railways with tho.se hitherto constructed m Queensland which had been made ilowly, piecemeal, were long established, passed through thickly occupied districts, and went on as often as the Government found it necessary to accede to the demand of population. If the comparison referred to is not, as he says, a fair one, it is at least, observes the Western Star, strongly m favor of the Transcontinental line, and that can ©nly be substantiated by results to be based J on a system of management as widely j different from the me now existing as the construction of the new will differ from that of the old. A Fight with Prisoners.— A determined outbreak of prisoners from the gaol at Goolburga, a town m India m the Nizam's dominions, about 110 miles from Hyderabad, occurred m June. That being Friday, and a leave day for all hand* m the Nizam's dominions, the prisoners m the Goolburga gaol, numbering 575, thought it a very good opportunity to make an attemnt to escape, -ml at 4 p.mi, a gang, consisting of seventy men, attacked the guard at the back gate, killing one and wounding two of the sepoys. Before assistance could be obtained (says the Bombay Gazette) fKtyfour of the prisoners had managed to escape, and befo;e leaving the gaol tluy entered the guard-room and took with them all available arms. The report of their escape soon spread through the station, and by hiilf-past fonrp.m., the Ist Lancers (stationed here), together witb the mounted police, were on their track, accompanied by the SudcW Talookdar (commissioner). Arms wort freely used by the prisoners, and the soldiers and police had to defend themselves by firing and cutting them down. By six p.m., the whole o^ihe prisoners | were re-captured — most of them severely wounded. One police Sepoy wa" lulled and about fifteen wounded, and four prisoners were killed and forty-four severely wounded. Perambcjlatixg Advertisements, — " A novel feature of the season at Saratoga and Lrmg Branch (says a correspondent of the New York Herald) will be an advertising belle at each of those places. Two handsome girls of good form and style have been hired for the purpose. They will be fashionably dressc-tl, but their mission is not to display dry goods. A dealer m bair, hair-dyes, washes for the complexion, and toilet articles of a beautifying sort employs them, an'l will pay their expenses. They wi'l serve as models on which to exhibit the latest achievements m false hair and hair-dres-sing. Their faces will b° carefully ' made up' with such preparation** as he manufactures. The plan is a bold one, hut entirely feasible. The hotel bills at Long Branch a"d Saratoga arc open to all who come, and these two professional beauties are personally respectable, knowhow to dance graceful]'/, can talk well enough, and will certainly eclipse most of the amateur beauties." This is nothing very new, however, m America. It is a common practice with the large hab'rdashery establishments of New York to hire good-looking and well-made girls to wear their goods, m the streets. Some of these advertising agents are paid as much as £6 and £8 a week. A JNFovei/- Industry. — Among the curiosities of Paris is the market for cigar stumps m place Maubert. There are four or five wholesale dealers m these aesthetic, articles having headquarters m winesaloons m the viciniy, and there tlenl with their furnishers, who are mostly poor old men and woman and ragged gamins. Much of the tobicco thus scraped together is sold to workmen, and much is said to be exported under the title of Tobaco de Paris. There was one old fellow m the Maubert quarter formally who became so rich at this humble business ©f selling cigar stumps that he had an annual income of 15,000fr. Expenstvr Work. — At. Moa Flat nva- | tion 107 rabbiters are emplovd, an'! it is «stimated that they kill 100.000 rabbits a month. ' Th« Tni- ek*i Times' h informed that Mr Kitchinsr has already expended £4000 m the work of extermination, and his monthtly outlay cannot. be set down at a fraction lessthan £1,000. The rabbiters are paid 2d a skin, and at this rate they earn from 10s to £3 aweek. Some of them cannot earn as much as keeps them m tucker, while others make a good wage. The Reward for the Brighton Murderer. — It was at first stated that Lefrov's landlady would get the £206 reward offered for capture for the murder of Mr. Gould ; but she had been forost illeri. Leffoy lml a°ked her to. send- a telegram to a man m the city, and Mrs Bickers, the landlady, heingr, as she B ays, curious, ■ had, after seneimfr off the telrgram, sent her little gir' to the address, to ascertain whnt shp mold ahout the lodger. The name mentioned hv Lefrnv wssunlc own, but thelittlo efri opened her mind to a gentVmnn <she did sre. and he guessing frrim t^e »iiTs description that the man was Lefrny. fore»tnl'e'l * r rs; Briclrers m communicating with th* 1 polic. On the sam" afternoon he seems to have gone to Scotland Yard, nml M-l the police that he could put them on the track of Lefroy if- they would guarantee that he should have the. reward offered by the Trr-js-'w :;nfl Railway Company. This I thiv diil. The rr.vsterious gentleman gfive »'if- in fo>-m'! mot he had extracted [from Mrs, L>ick,ers fj a,u.d, Iteftojy w.as, m

consequence arrested. Mrs Bickers is now very wrathful that she is to be done out of that reward ; aud although oue has not much sxmpathj' with any claim auts to blood-money of this kind, sh docs seem to \\\\c pronml to complain of the tkk whicii I.aj been jjluyc i her. Feminine Clocks. — Tho latent chic is for Imlies tn havi tin- c'ot-ks on ;lu-i" stocking" • x f = n "' (1 to \\v: km c. the direct uhji-ct of ■ iiit! c:;]) b is a matter of speculation, for the only penod at which the*e ho--c.il di-corations :ue -upposed to be < xhihitcd to the rude eyes of m:in is whm they ■■■re cxpn'td for ';!le m the s'iop windows, llov. ever, (hiring the exeni ns of l;iw> ti-niii-* ami t v- last jvalfzfs at !i;il!s. whe re the ex! ilar.itinj; influence of the ch-m-agnecnp 'a- given its vcrce to ihe s\vin«r, there is a momentary chance for the inspection of these nov.llies of n more interesting character ; sincl they are, to juVge by the anxious rings of wa'ting and ixpe::tant observers, oppo ■tuiiitics not slow!v taken advantage of by the "male persuasion." Tlie expensii.u of the hoops, which are fast coming m, assi-sts materia'ly m this directinn! Garters, it is paid. ar>-> poin^ out of ushion, stockings bth\>: arrarg-cd 1 to' button on the edge of the srarments m closest proximity there!'), wiiich are worn quite short m consequence. These important changes m the fashions of things persumnble always under cover d> monslrates pretty clearly ihow violent the presumption of obscurity is. What an Average Kfportkr can Do.— There hadn't been a murder m the city for nearly two dayn, when the news of a butcher's wife-murder reached the offices of the dailif s the other night. A pile of Bonanza stock would not have been more hearfily welcomed by the reporters. They ju^t bounced that rmmler fn- what it was worth. A perfect coruscation of spluttering pore flew from their nensas they worked np the imaginary details and converted maps of the Holy Land into fliagrams oft'-e " scene of tintragedy" The fact that the murdered woman lrfr a trail of blood behind her as she fled from home was a splendid opportunity for " apt al iteration's artf-il ai.l." The headings nrxt morning were » pitrhto behoß " The Ghastly Gash mail< by a Gory Ghoul." "The Bloody Blotches made by a Barbarous Butcher's Bru tality." and "The Terrible Tragedy Told by a Trial ot Trick Hn» Life-biontl." arc only three instances of what the avenipreporter can do when his brain, has 1-m follow fir forty- ciaht »o« rs - Vor (ii ' sakp of the three or f-nr dai'y sheets v br each solemnly sw- ar to having the 'largest eircuia-ion," we "iiicetely trust that nn'ifher murder will be commit'ed before Mon 'ay. and we are willirg to I>y any nrld? that our "vi^h will be fulfilled.— S^in Francisdo Ncirs Letter.