ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 131, 21 September 1876, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

A correspondent writes to a Sydney paper :—" Is it asking too muck—in thes times of hot-bed education inspections and examinations, competitive and otherwisewhen everybody is examined, except the examiners, and every one inspected but legislators, Justices of the Peace, and the inspectors themselves ; when the very boy who blacks your boots ought at least to be able to cope with decimal fractions and the rudiments of political economy—is it asking too much when I meekly demand, in the interest of the Australians that an to come, that our girls, also, shall undergi a strict examination before they are per mitted to take upon themselves the duties and responsibilities of matrimony ? Trust me, they would work hard enough, and few indeed would there be who would fail to come out with flying colors and a first-class certificate. I will note the few branches of knowledge to be taught at these training .schools,, thatjust now occur to me—of course the Ust would be lengthened to suit the the intellectual age we live in :—Elenia£ tary Chemistry and Physiology, Hygiene, "Domestic Economy, Physical and Moral Management of Children, and Practical Cookery. I would give them two years to do it in, and am persuaded that such an amount of earnestness and assiduity would be brought to their studies that, if permitted, ninety-nine per cent, would do it in half the time." •

A large amount of manufacturing is carried on in Philadelphia and the adjacent districts. The following statistics will explain the character and extent of the city's business:—Assessed value of real estate in 1874, 565,819,075 dols. ; manufactures, value of, in 1147, 400,000,000 dols.; number of manufacturing establishments in 1870, 8,579 ; bapital employed in 1870, 204,340,637 dols. ; value of materials used in 1876,193,861,597 dols. ; value of manufactured products in 1870,362,484, 698dais.j number of persons employed in 187Q 68,647,874 dols. ; steam engines in .1870, 2,177 ; streets opened and in use in 1873 about 900 miles; streets paved aa lighted with gas in 1873, about 500 miles: street railways in use in 1874, over 2$ miles ; passengers carried on street railways in 1874,-71,501,235. Mr. Edward Preston, proprietor Of "Robert Chambers' Index to the Next of Kin," writes to the European Mail as follows :—"The recovery of so large a.sum from the Crown as £200,000 is, I hejieye, without precedent, and deserves a passing notice. An order for repayment out of Court was made by the Yice-Chancellor Malins recently under the following circumstances : In December, 1871, Mrs. Maria Mangin Brown, then of Hertfordstreet, Mayfair, died intestate, leaving personality of the value of over £200,000, and with no known next of kin ; consequently, the then Solicitor to the Treasury, Mr. Gray, Q.C,, took possession of her property on behalf of the Grown, and paid all expenses of administration, and her debts. Advertisements were then issued by the Crown Solicitor, to ascertain who were Mrs. Brown's next of kin, and fourteen persons came in thereunder. Four of them, Italians, have just proved their claim to the satisfaction of the Court, and the matter came on by petition, praying payment to the petitioaefj PhiUippo Thomasso Mattia Freccia, of £192,535, the' balanee of the above sum how claimed, £200,000, after providing for the succession duty and costs. Afte?l some discussion between the counsel, the] Vice-Chancellor made an order in the terms of the prayer of the petition." Golwood, a village of 200 people, on the Bombay and Baroda" railway, has been the scene of one of the most frightful outbreaks of cholera ever known. Over haLl of the population died in.three days. The disease appeared at noon 6a' June 4, and before daybreak next morning there had been fifty-seven deaths. On the Bth all the survivors fled, but were refused ad-

nttAWn by the adjacent village. The disease displayed extreme vwrtttanw, some casca proving fatal in twenty minutes. In these' twes the ordinary cholera symptoms were ahsent, and th*' hi Ay nt the fas* sti-ofcK of the disease h-yame hvrd. convulsed, arid drunken, 'ft-.ere. ;■> tvresident doctor in the village, and rnedteal help was some time in f ' l ' aw negW; of sanitary meastnre* is thv rent ea«3e r as it is* stated that_ the people were living in inconceivable tilth. Cholera appears to foe vmnstiatty prevalent this year, ottt foreafcs being reported from various parts of India, none, however approaching that of tfotwood in violence. _ ' A writer in the ilvw iW* tett* the fo>N lowing:. ''Two- gentlemen,, pretty welt known in the literary. theatric, and genectitly 'jolty' world, hit last tievhy Day upon a very brilliant, if not altogether novel, expedient .>f relieving the dull monotony of the London season. They i<ot themselves np with exceeding care, under the best professional; advice, as 1 nigger minstrels,' awl with one of the Ktinutne- breed to help then*, set off for a day on "the Kill/ An amusing time, I have no dottl>t, they had «4 it, and a (insions time too, I hear, font hardly a 1 tfood time,' in the professional 9«i«e of tfio word,. tnasrattt-h as not only were they

mi their ten* front about nine in th<? mornintt till; nine at So. sny nothing of Wing rejected with scorn by every t»bmiuioti; their road to- London, brut the t»I itt tho end of fchri. 1 * very torn? day showed iiuly eigtit-und-twenty shilling fill fold r Had to amass this limited fortune they had iiinonif other trial* to- sing that detectabledittyv * Tomnvy,nias,eroonii foryour untie." an iess than time* •'" Vi««-€hafi«eH«r Sir R. Matin* had, on .fuly t<i)y fo ded.de a mrinns case. tL tftn'art .thtnuorobtv »)f> *>U Mr. tkmeonvbe. »solicitor »£ some property,, in tH(!,H y »p----iwftreit at hi* father's ottke. find asked for assistance. Hi* father, wIW hud dismissed iiiu years- before, refused ib r and H. S>. knuombe, thy a *isfcy<*LX„ has nover since won heard of. The t'ather died in I8f>». ntostate,. and the son's share ef his pre-litu-ty would have been .£'«•*, H"»* nit ho was not fo be found.. The Court, liurofoee, was aslced to decide whether lis share bt'lonjfisd to lib En-other and ■istuiv sw hi* father* next <>f fcUiv as it urn Id have done if fie had died befoi-'e fti* atlitsF. or to hi:* »wn next of fcirt, as it wnld do. if he had survived bini. The iW-Clianceitor decided that, in the total) ibsmioe of evidence. U. Dwrw<»mbtt mttst.

ollul'd to have survived hi.* Eathev, t" /"'^.v mi! .ww* i/e<trn .*wvr ha w* hut .wm. and > have <Lt«< t intestate r.'hnsocjHyntiy. as issistot had died within th<- seven years. uly the hvothev and the hyor.htn-** s«tv iit'ltt enjoy the property. That i» a ngnlav instance of Che ap|dieatu>n of •hitrai-y, y«* sensibK legal; rute*. Stt{>~ jso EL Dtvnooml';« is a'ive,. or a new luiniarvt starts Jopward Ci-» personate him. A. .wrtptohm long entertained by the iilisvrv *"i(>vk»mm«nir fclta-fc * h f fcrigwuff* *« uly wefe aided by men of rni-tuU higher (& tow reeentty been eiintipmed.. An mn-mev betrayed the brigand _ Sajeva, id on' June 1M he was seiaad sitting in a rm-houmv about threw in tie* front fftrnti, with- five eompantotix before a table wud with tiny vviti;« and Three Hie brigands turned mrf. tin b« "tift© n U)i.v»Liori Tnvniti; and the fSaronetb. (' nvov" mini mixing in the host socfefiy le inland., and it is supposed, paid by U'igauds for giving them rotWmatintt. yxistenoe of even- unu sueh uonfedeinnawtisety inoreosws the difficulties o| police,, a.* the brigands receive party 'matiou oif any intended capture. It iliuvtsit that the IS'eapotttati Ca'r.PTra, the Society which has so long t&rml Karenna,, have always- ntunbert'd

to men of position; and cultivation in if rank*, a bad sign for the State, as it »5 that the power oi social opini* >n ha,* duo inoperative. limy years ago* gentleman tit a stthorltu depttrtment <>if the Panic of frtdand! wured a device mor« vise Jut than hatrthough *-»£ the tike nature. He id out a way «£ splitting hank-notes, fob each note became two, and to all ftvaneo were the same a* when they !tmt:v including of course the waterk mul alt the rest of it. He was an St man" r and informed the t af; fch« result of fib ingenuity ■,: ronpnn, r<n his* solemn promise of ! ? revealing the secret, they wade turn m\ov of the Bank.. Another gentle;fnvtwho unhappily b a rogif, has f made his appearance in London: :t» minted a certain acid which >s the writing to disappear from the up,, and then fills up the blank space 'fling to thb aspirations. His ri.w(m (((' b the following :—He procures a eijue, drawn by a good name, t'»r en or nineteen pounds ;. the-word :!*'" is obliterated so eoTuptetety Lniue t?f the original writing b to ■vned even under the microscope, iu worita " hundred pounds" inin its place : two ciphers are added igures,. and then the- thing b done, II other p.-vts or the document, hj; bV stiy nature, are fptite correct, •ren torts pla.n is causing great eonioi in London, and the gentleman vtnted it could get a good round retire from business. ' do some things much better it

•• A male convict at Cayenne , not t'\ obtained permission to marry a ! «(> ivijt ; but as the man raa n Nv the Ootfernor declared it was fo'y first to obta : n the certificate ♦>£ [twife. A communication was* adfUn the authorities at Borne, but j>il returned without rerly. The | insisting that the ceremony should *nspr delayed, the CJovereor said, glials b there to prove that yottr itV b dead t" The reply of the conN tolsrabty saiisfsctory on this I " Wliy," M .saisl, ** I'm here for (murdered h«r.' 1