ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 21 April 1882, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

In Syria the membership of the oliurchcs has doubled in the Inst five years. In several districts of Switzerland the long continued drought is causing a great scarcity of water. Last year there were 250. persons killed and 328 injured through boiler explosions in the United Stales.

General SkoboloJJj' recently gave the Czar a Turcoman charger which had galloped twenty-five miles without stopping and sixty without food. The clothing of a man at Oakland, U. S,, oaught fire from his pipe on Jan. 27, and the llames were only distinguished after he had been severely burnt. Mr Steel, of Edinburnh, has bequeathed to Aberdeen nearly 14000 for the erection of a statue of Sir William Wallace, looking souih-ward in a defiant attitude. The Czar, who is curtailing the imperial extravaganceof his father,is going to spend only this yeir in improving the St. Petersburg Opera-house. Mr Bass, M.P.,has erected, at a cost® of £35,000, a inagiufioorit pile of buildings, known as St. Paip Burton-cm.Trent, qnd has presented it to the to.wn. Queen Victoria faints in a hot room, or after a prolonged ceremony. In the coldest weather the hot air is never turned on in her suite of rooms in Windsor Castle. / Over a thousand congratulatory telegrams, some of them from America, were received by the Emperor William, of > Prussia, on New Year's Day. Mr Alexander Longfellow, who front among seven American architects gradqati ing at the Ecole des Bgaux Afts, Pjirjs, obtained the honors, is a nephew •? of the poet.

| The compositors employed on several Madrid journals have struck for an increase of wages, and the papers in question are, in consequence, unable to appear. It is feared that the strike will extend. Sir George J§ssel {ho first ;judgo o.( tl;o Hebrew faith in England and the first orthodox Jew ever sworn into the Privy Council. It is expected that lie will yet be the first peer belonging to the Hebrew congregation. A petition is being signod in Northampton praying the Lord Chancellor to ini quire into the manner in which Judge Cook discharges his official functions, and alleging (hat in consequence of the undue haste with whiyh his Iloqor disposes of oases, aud the incivility with which people meet, (bey are inclined to suffer loss rather than appear beforo him, The authorities at Kasao recontlv petitioned the Czar (o send them provisions as a famine was pocsidefecl to be in. evitable. The Winter Palace is to bo entirely reconstructed and thoroguhly isolated, as a precaution against Nihilist attempts, the Czar remaining in the meantime in retirement at Gatchina. The last aot of General Tcherevin before his resignation was the complote clearing out of the Palace, and the closing and sealing of all its apartments, the communication between the Hermitage and the Winter Palace being cut off.

A lot of drunken oowa in a dairy near Berlin created quite a commotion lately, besides disappointing numerous householders who were deprived of their milk for a couple of days, By some mistake, probably owing to the darkness of the early hour, the person watering the cows turned the faucett of a barrel of corn brandy which happened to be placed near the water faucet, and the trough instead of being tilled with water received about eighty gallons of the fiery fluid, The cows rather liked the stuff, and ihtf whole number, over ono hundred, got drunk and behaved in a most disgraceful manner, attempting to gore the milkers and bellowing in concert, with the most extraordinary persistency, It was not until the second day that they became tradable.