ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 165, 15 October 1881, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Mark Twain*— Our readers will be glad to 'learn that the genial author of the " Innocents Abroad" has written a letter to a friend m Adelaide, m which he refers td the numerous communica-. tions which had been received from the Colonies respecting the rumors, that he had been insane and was dead. He stated that neither of the rumors was correct at present. A Woollen Minb of WBALTH:~We dip the following from a late Sydney .exchange : — The banks abound m money. The deposits are equal to £128 of accumulated savings for every family m N.S. Wales. The last nine wool-clipd of the colony were fifty millions. The thirtyfive millions sheep yield two-thirds of the total value of the annual exports; the year's clip is worth ten' millions sterling; The land taken up during the last nine years was twenty-one million acres The banks have among them a large number of sheep runs. ■* OujDA Bedivina.— lt seems " Ouida * is not dead after all. The London cor- ■ respondent of the. Brisbane Courier writes : — " How did the rumor of ' Ouida's' death arise:? I handed to a friend of hers for transference to Florence, where the novelist was last week playing happily amongst" her" dogs, "a highly laudatory obituary notice clipped from, a Sydney paper. 'Ouida' will: never be young again m this world, but she shows no signs of death yet, and has nearly finished another novel 'Moths,' abused and denounced, has been an enormous success at home and abroad, X for some of the characters^ notably the bad mother of the heroine, are sketches of well-known living individuals." A New Submarine Boat.— A Roumanian engineer, Trajan Theodoresco by name, has invented a new description of torpedo or rabmarjhe boat, whose peculiarity is that it is capable of manoeuvring nnder water at 12 hours on a stretch. It is able to act at depths of from 100 ft m nversto7opbr;Booft m thesoa. It is able, through the agency of Screws, to ||i ri^or sink noiselessly^ and either suddenly or gradually by successive stages, , and can move or manoeuvre m any direction. The illumination of the vessel is internal, and enables the rfficers upon her to see for a distance of 136 ft underwater The Ex-Zulu Kins.— The application for the release of Cetewayo, the Zulu king, has-been refused, A despatch ha been received from the Secretary of Stat c for the Colonies, stating that th.c dange* involved m any disturbance of Sir Game* Wolseley s settlement is the reason as-wgned-by the Secretary of State for the Queen s refusal to listen to the Appeal of a restate whom and herself relations of amity existed forgo many WoTV),9 c i! cW t yo feels vef y keenly the S.W ?^ been . struck ata " his hopes H-2? ? J ft X j P i Ot ilnmedia te restoration He w said to declare that he has now bii w Ifr'S? W*?*™* «"* of that he is ILZ ,° aVail him^f. It would be a most unfortunate-scandal if the unSr^ can> y into what • andTr?i? al PUrp ° 8 ? hema y have formed, nnSmff ?° PC ? tt f* . Ws ca «^ians will be troreimtbngijn the rrvigilance. It is a Won the^ational conscience tfkS^ Jirn^n confin^ment^it would be a' stiD ttl T S 1 * more Bfa amefulVhumiliation if ■SttSff-'^i ™ * Bd t0 hie existence ! detained as a prisones of State. -a^i- m 7 Ci,aimant^ -It will be riSZS h v re " onene «Iy insuperable ojection to the re-opening of the suit.! be l«t« Sir Bo f er Uh&xue mdc JJ

Act of Parliament. After the great trial which relegated Arthur Orton to a convict prison for fourteen years, the trustees of the estate obtained a special Act m, order to'enable them to pay the enormous costs m defending the suit. In the praam hie it was recited that Roger TichboVae was drowned m the Bella, and died without issue. This statement must be reveled by a new Act before any fresh proceedings can be taken ; arid Acts of Parliament, whether public or private lire by no means easy to obtain m these days of obstruction. But it is hardly probable that anyone will seek seriously to emulate the misdeeds of the unhappy nobleman now languishing m penal servitude. Tuere would be still less chance if it were widely known that the v 'unwieldy Orton had dwindled down during his incarceration from six-and- twenty stone~tb barely eleven, and that he is a prematurely ag. d gr«y-haired old man. Prison life is not a bed of roses m England. '-•-■''. Particular to a Needle. —An English paper says: — One hears a good deal about the" brusqueness of the treat ment experienced by persons who deal at cb-operative stores ; hut the shopkeepers have something to say on the other side of the question. Here is an illustration. The customer is a clergyman, evidently with a large share of leisure. The clergyman, or tb;e ; clergyman's wife, requires needles, and writes up from the country to the stores for one packet. The packet is forwarded r v ßy return of pest comes a letter from; the clergyman, somewhat to the following effect : " The proper number of needles m a packet is twenty-five ; the packet you send me (and which I return herewith) contains, as.you will find after counting them,, twenty-four. Now it is not the intrinsic worth of a single needle which concerns me : lam thinking ■only; of the principle involved. What confidence der you suppose I can place m the managers o£ your establishment if, after promising to sell me twenty rfive needles, they send me a packet which con- I tains only twenty- four ? Be good enough at price to send me a packet containing the' proper^ number, and request your Board of Director* to read the 35th verse of th<B 17th chapter of," &c. The -Cat' Indtistbt at Wellington. r^-The steady demand for cats m the Empire City, already referred to more than once m the these columns, has sharpened the wits of the Wellington larrikins to an extent which makes it dangerous to enter into intercourse of any kind with them. The other day an old gentleman, whose generosity is scarcely equal to the length of his money-bags, called at the place where cats most do congregate just now, bebind-Wr. Levin's store, and ascertaining the price paid for grimalkin, stated that he bad a fine tabby at home, which he would bring down for sale. As he toddled off, his steps were dogged by a couple of "idle vagabond boys " having sinister designs on the 'conscript father. After a time he emerged from his dwelling, bearing m his hand a Maori kit containing another kit, but of the feline species. The young scamps informing the old gentleman that "Anderson, Levin's storeman, had sent them to cany the cat down,"'eagily persuaded him to give them the animal, !which they speedily sold to. Anderson. The venerable Legislative Councillor (for of.no less rank was he) arrived at the store shortly afterwards, and bis pleasnreable excitement on bearing how he and his pussy had been sold was something worth witnessing.