ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1096, 10 June 1882, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Some two years ago (writes the Waiiawa corresponded of the Southland limes), after a very heavy gale from the a.W M a great quantity nfiand was shifted from the north end of (he beach here! Several skeletons, supposed to be all that remained of somo Natives buried there a long time ago, were uncovered. On the lftli of Inst month. Messrs Fergusson •and Farquhar wonUver the same sandhills and great quantity of human remains—the' bulk being in one heap—that had been uncovered by re'cent winds,. Some are u'eaiiy perfect while others are a chaotic mass oi heads; ; hands, feet, aims, legs, J&c. It must have been many years since the grave was filled, with its ghSstly occupants. The London correspondent of a con- ' temporary says:—lt'seems that the retirement of Dr Bromby,' the Bishop, of Tasmania, brings the number of retired cnlonial bishops residing in this country up to twenty-three, and if the resignation ■ of sees proceeds in the ratio which has recently obtained; tho ex-colonials will sooii equal in number the diocesan prelates of England and Wales. ■ " in the European Mail w rites" What special mark of his- ! graciogi-SeweignVtavdr is Sir Henry -ParEes, Prime Minister of' New South Wales, to receive as a momento of his visit to England 1 Many conjectwi shave been made on his head, and J 1 •11 ve I am right in suggesting that hi .>i!i >.oon be able to be addressed as 'the Right Hon. Sir Henry - Parkes, K.C.M.G., a member of her Majesty's most honorable .'Privy Council.' Failing this, a baronetcy is almost a certainty for Sir Henry." The placing of some restriction on can■vassing at Parliamentary 'elections, says the London " Times," is proposed in a Bill that is again introduced by Mr Lloyd, M.P. .This measure wquld wholly pro-hibit-candidates and their paid agents from canvassing either personally or by letter;'and in case of the employment of paid , agents ,to .canvass, it would be deemed a" corrupt practice",on the part of the condidate. Moreover, landlords ' and. their agents would be debarred from .canvassing their employees. However, ; the measure would not affect public meet- . mgrf, or circulars, .addresses, or 'other j writings containing ohlya sta'tement of a candidate's political views,• Another portion of the Bill would hinder candidates and their-agents from hiring roo'mß in public houses as committee rooms or to* , any other purposes. connected' with the ' election, oxbept that they .might use any hotel as ordinary"giiesta.. The. penalty for infringing_these I'roViJions'is fixed at to,.be paid to any one whomay sue for it. '. . n

• An Aueklandxitizen >told -a/very anas* .'ingjfitory at tho conclusion of a meeting Another day - Thoae' who had- attended meeting were chatting together before , separating, when the subject of the Auclcland and Wellington weather cropped up, -Avhile in Wellington oh dne-'oroasionln ■connection with his ofScial he and •a friend were strolling over the hills and {julliea'iiear the city, wfien he found to his snrpriserin oire^hhrHolloWrtlio •the wind. It was blowingvyery hard at ihe time, almost a gale, yet tjis cups were .revolvingat the rate a 1 "gentle air".: or light^breozeishould' • narrator and his friend communicated partnient, who at once sent np a djiputj. "LookVJsaidth'elucklandOT to ihe deputy," look at that - thing" (pointing to •the anemometer) {why, it is hardly re■Mlving gt nli, ahdif- ia blowing a gfila v r ®S?®kf|faaloJJow,. : wliep it/:Bllouldfbe " V. a i hill ' v aa, in' ; :Auqkland?" :^ ; Oh j; replied the deputy, if it would not '• - >/«- 0 w put the regißter v on & hill • ' : .tflftt.it: would to blown swayin no '■'mT"l - l na ?T a t i oi"d -^th^t the / ' 'Md.i/pg ... Wellington, y 83

It i» nbt/evely.'day.a.membtoof Parliamentis jiltodil'Mr:Biggar, the great Hoirie/Eulfir: and: aliptiorter j of .'Parnell was engaged to a--Franco-Irish maidenj and the marriage'-soon; expected. But on making inquiriea : m to her'ipteiided'fl financial prosßects',;'the; lndy • forihd his patrimony smali; aiid disniiss'ed.'the, hon| ourable gentleman. ~, - M . ; Emerson's prose Las Bhowii lbat poetry has no more need of the trick of Versifying than the Muses have of crinohno, | Princo Albert Victor joina one of the regiments of Guards on hiß return home; His younger brollior remains in the Navy; ;- An oM Woman gathers sticks in a sack aboiit the' back lanes iiear the Melbourne Post Office. In tho early days .of Mel: bourne herbhsband purchased for WO, mj allotment in Bourko-street. now .'worth £40,000.' j

Genius is by no. means hereditary. A son of Mr Charles: Dicliona was for some time managor of a sheep station adjoining Forbes. A son : of Anthouy Trollopo iii tho Bame district also.found ihe " buck" more congenial aiid profitable than tho pen. Herbert Spencer 'published an'essay containing the Darwin theory some time before Darwin's "Origin of Species" appeared ;'and although' the naturalist has laboriously collected and marshalled his materials, it.is to the. works of Spencer that thinkers look for tho profound' elebrntion of tho theory. '

. An inquest lias been held at Mudgee, New. Sonth Walosj on the b»dy of Ah Yow, a Chinese storekeeper, who was shot there tho previous day.- A verdict of wiliul mnrder was returned against the woman, It appears that thiy had quarrelled on Thursday, when the .woman, whoso maiden name was Sarah Davis, left her husband, and went to her mother's residence. The following morning. Ah Yow went' to tlie house, and another quarrel took place, and it isallegod that the Chinaman , assaulted his mother-in-law, whereupon the daughter wentjto her father's room, and took his gun and shot her husband dead. The couple had only been married for a fortnight. The following characteristic anecdote of Te Whiti, was related by Mr Slicehau.—The question was then put by a Native whom I may call the leader of the Opposition, " Did not Te Whiti tell us that on a certain day he would raise our dead ancestors?" ; The answer was a very clever'one. He said, "Do you not remember that I promised to do so if for twelvo months you were all sober, temperate, pure, and cliasto in your lives?" They replied,;." Yes." "Havoyou been so?" the answer was, ''No." "Then," said To Whiti," do you think I would disaraco your ancestors by bringing them back to a crowd like this?"