ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1076, 17 May 1882, Page 2

ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

The Czar named two vessels of the Euasian navy respectively SkobeM and Geok Tepe. It is stated thaUheOriaten. mg took/place several dttya'Rftev • the General's how.cele'brated speech. A planet has recently been discovered by Professor Frester, of Berlin. It is of the thirteenth magnitude-lib 10m right ascension Bdeg 18m north declination, and the daily motion ia four seconds. _At a meetingof the; National Society m Cairo on Febi W.latwhioh the Prime Minister and the Minister for War were present,..violet' Sp'eeohes.iiwere made against European interference in Egyptian affairs, ';:'.:'. ..-,

The Times is informed that the increase in-the output of wal'in the JJnited Kim?, dom during ,1881. as compared with 1880 will probably bo.;found-to. be about 7,000,000t0n5,.:;' ; " ,

A man has been'sentenced to seven days at hard labor; hyy'an English judge, for kissing a lady ,St J 'a railway station, He pleaded that'lleiook her for an acquaintance and; apologised immediately afterward, '.';''

Owing to the.idtrn.eu of the water in the Lake of Constance, in Switzerland,, some interesting Lacustrine habitations have been laid bare,'and several valuable finds of nephrite axes and other objects have been made. ..

A return issued by the House of Lords shows that there were in the Province of Canterbury, in 1880,-4871 stipend curatos and in the Province of iork, 1269, making a total in.Englarid and Wales of 5640. - A free fight occurred at Peueble, near Denver, U.S., on Match 20among a crowd assembled at an 'opera'to witness a wrestling match between lieadville'and Denver men. The latter ;woh, and theVLeadville men declared the.deoisiori'of the refree unfair, and, pulling out their pistols, threatened his life. Several police mounted the stage, and during melee that followed one man was knocked senseless, and another was badly injured. Emilio Castellar has published' an artiolo in reference to Skobeloffs recent extraordinary speech, in!which he says he fears a coming Slav invasion of Europe, and declares it behoves the Latin*'races, in the interest of civilization, 'to. enter into a close alhanoewith'the Gerroanß. A despatch from Si/ Petersburg announces the death, fromr the effeots of childbirth, of Jessie Helfmann, who was respited on account of her'condition at the time from the capital'sentence passed upon her for complicity hv the assassination of the Emperor Alexander 11, The deceased received the bestmedical attendance throughout her illness, which lasted from her confinement till:'death. The child was at first placed in 'the care of a nurse, but. was afterwards sent to the foundling Hospital, ,/:; Miss Reynolds, who. W recently imprisoned in Cork gaol for inciting the tenants of the Earl'of Bantry not to pay their rent, has been, sentenced to six months'imprisonment for further acts of intimidation, .■' ,;•'-• •

In reprimanding General Skobeloff tor his recent Panslavio spseclies. the Czar said:-"Even Turkey has raised her head, and refuses to sign a convention for the payment of war expenses, because she hopes war will soon break out between Bussia and Germany and Austria. You desired to be useful to the blavs, but having irritated.Germany, you have.destroyed even that neutrality winch alone was possible under the present circumstances,

The Duke of Sutherland, Lord Colville, and other directors representing the weak Northern, the London and NorthWestern, and other railway companies, have made experiments with a new automatic vacuum brake at Edingtou Junetion, Bedford, and Doucaster. It was found possible in the case of a train travelling on a level at 50 miles an hour to stop it in 250 yards. . Jhe proposed place p| exilefor the Pone ut the small town of Fiilda in Prussia, on he nrer FnWa, between Frankforton-he-Maine and Ewonach. It has about 10,050 inhabitants, and is a Roman Utholic See, m time past held by a Prince Prelate. The cathedral was rebuilt in 1704-12 on tho model of St. Peters. The castle and gardens of the rrince Abbotts are among thechief attractions of tho olace.

Mrs Frances Grant, residing at Rock J!erry near Liverpool, has placed aside a sum of the interest of which aho | has directed shall be paid for the roliefnf the deserving poor, without reference to class or creed The interest on this amounts to £4OO annually, Tho capital sum is invested in the hands of a number of trustees, and they give Mrs Grant theirwunsel and assistance to secure a judicious distribution of the fund she has crea od. Mrs Grant also gave £IO,OOO or the foundation of a chair in connection with the University College of Liver-

The power of the polico in Buasia is Btrpnglyshown by the following characteristic incident whioh recently occurred at the town of Tamboff.-" The proposition was made before the council to increase the saary of the chief local police officer, rhe 81 individuals present all voted-in * a. I' • ? ne lm m, however, after this decisive vote, pointed out that saoh questions should not be decided bv openvotmg, but by ballot, 17 negative votes were reoorded." ■•

Thefollcwingßtorywhich ooines from ban Franoisco, is published in a New York paper with tho heading-" Bather a " d Colton, members of tho Olympic Club, were out duck-shooting. Whi e h-ymg to cross one of B loughs at low tide, Harry sank in the soft mud un to h u armpits.. It-waa impossible for Charles to assist him, tbtwißh fear of him s-nbng also. The tide was rapidlycoS in; no time was to be lost, for m 20 mmutesitwouldbe over Harry's head. On if* he bank was a piece of gas-pine about fift f ' long. ThUMrMmayfto J To Harry, who, stuck in the mud, put j £ « through i? 22 ours while Charlie went for holp oh drawbridge six miU> way, He r « „>-n«A w.t ropes and when th tide S dead from exhaustion