ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1055, 22 April 1882, Page 3

ROUND THE WORLD.

No gas nnd no petroleum mo used iu > tue royal palaco at Berlin, Eight hun.€Am candles are nightly burned 75 Vat them in the apartments of tho Empress, The high-backed and beautifully carvod °? * "It 11 '' former, y mi b y lli ° s P Mk « or tho House of Commons, was sold at a nnn UCtlon ln Dub,in > n few ng". for ±9O. It was purchased by'Mr Cecil uuinness. , The ceremonies of the recent connonlMtionof four now saints of tho Roman Utliohc Church were concluded by tho Kissing of the Pope's hand by all the cardinals, of his kneo by tho Archbishop .' and Bishops, and of his foot by the other priests. During tho lata heavy gales in England there foil at Ottcrson, tho property of Upturn Mowbray, R.N., two splendid specimens of old walnut trees, supposed to be tho Amc ago as tho mansion house, which wtabjnlt m 1589, nearly 300 years • ago, . A person in- tho Manchester Theatre, England, a sailor on hoard the Russian Imperial yacht llio'Lividia, and a yonnc gardener at Hatfield llouso have nil been killed by accidently touching the wires of tho machine producing tlie electric light. At a ball recently giver, in England, at which less than 200 persons were present, the liquor consumed between 9 p.m. and Six a.m. amounted to seventeen dozen of champagne, two dozen of sherry, twenty bottles of brandy, besides several dozen of claret, According to an old authority on English heraldry, a man, even if ho wero not °f gentle blood, who captured a prisoner ro combat was permitted to wear the shield of that prisoner and enjoy its use to him and his heirs for ever. The proprietors of the Illustrated London Nows recent iy gave between 4000 and 5000 poor children the treat of seeing the Covent Garden pantomime, They hired the theatre fur a day performance, and then sent out to (he highways and byways for the poor neglected children. Mdle Do La Sello, niece of Marshal M Mahon.lms become a Benedictine nun. As usual, in the first part of the ceremony of taking the veil, she was robed as for a bridal, in white satin and rare lace, and Was ablaze with the family jewels, which wore her heritage. All her property goes to the convent, The opening of the St. Gothard Tuunel has already increased the traffic between Italy and Switzerland beyond all expectation. Every train in either direction is crowded with passengers. An English business circular states that between tho middle of last October and the opening of the present year 28,000,000 American oysters were shipped to England and consumed, and the cry was for more. 'The collections in London on Hospital Sunday amounted to £30,147, of which the Church of England gavo elovenfjjteenths. All denominations—Jews, preeks, Friends, .Sic!—are represented in flip collection.