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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 871, 16 September 1881, Page 2

Queen Victoria; recently violated her usual custom by attending a non-confor-. mist church on the ocoasion of the funeral of the Royal Gamekeeper. Au American paper says :—An exhibition of pipes and snuff-boxes at the Crystal Palace, London, contains numbers of pipes collected by the Emperor Maximilian, which were found in the buried cities of Mexioe,

Of the prudent Swiss Alpine guides, no less than 11 women, all -belonging to the Bevmese Oberland, have effected insurances in one single Zurich Accident Insurance Company, for sums amounting in their total to £11,083. '' A fire broke out on June 30 at Messrs Colman'smustard works,' Carrow,. Norwich. It originated in and was confined to the mustard packing warehouae-a seven-storey building which was stocked with goods. The damage dons''is estimated at about £30,000. The- efforts of the fire brigade were confined to prevent the fire from spreading to tlie other blocks of buildings which comprise these extensive works,

One of the largest belts in the world has teen constructed at Bingloy, Eng. It is 182 ft long and Gft wide. Six hundred horse-power is intended to be transmitted by it. It is wire-stitched and hnud-sown cere being taken to " break tbo joinU" very effectively by the arrangements of several sections of which it is composed. Count Tyner, formerly attache to the German Embassy in in London who was plunged into disgraco there, and only saved from criminal prosecution by the Gbimnn Ambassador, Count Y»n Mutißte, asserting the Embaasadorial inviolability, has been disgraced from the , .army and degraded from the ranks of nobility,