ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1109, 26 June 1882, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Out.of 42,700 emigrants who arrived' •' • in New York during March, noarly 20,000 were Germans. •• • • ..... .. SranHpox is raging in Hayti, 4400 deaths from it have occurred iii Port-au- ■ PrinCe'and', its'bnvirons. Tho gross .earning of the railroads of' Missouri'for the year 1881, amounted to L5.O0O.OOO; A telegram , dated April 28, in'an • American paper stated that Qeueral Skobeloff was dangerously ill. ' , The'""City Temple, London, has boen lighted . throughout by Edison's 'elijctrio light.: The experifoenrwjs entirely satisfactory. ; Numerous arrests of suspected Nihilists are ..occurring throughout .liusaia; ■ ■ In the Bombay hydraulic.dook, weights tolli'e extent 0f.12,000 tons are lifted,- ■ ;.Marty-shops and. houaoß. belonging to Jews were burned on April : 21 at Kamintz, '' f Unsßia. ,-The damage done is pstimated at t . 500,0001'oublal., • . The Director of the Batik of Sicily, formerly the Syndicate of 'Palermo, has boen.abducted by brigands, who demand i3OQ as a ransom,,, . v- , Two largo buoys, each hayine a surface' of ninety sqim're feet abovo : water,'-painted -. withjuminous pmnt, bayo.been placed on • the Clyde. The people on the Labrador coast aro in' ' "a state of atarvation.; ..^Two - cfi'en, named Lawrence: 'and Pierre QteopeiriV with some of their children, hare died from want of fond.. - , The Cambridge Town' Council has found it-necessary to appoint a special committee to inquire tntu.the'.disturbtfAce . cauied by undergraduates at theatrical and.oilier public entertainments at the v Ouildhall.' ' .. .' . The celebration of the Sicilian Vespers took place at Palermo on March 30; The : .. celebration was .to commemorate the on Easter Monday, 1282, of. jPout 8000 .Frenchmen, who bad con- : quere'd Sicily. " _.v ■■ : 1 During 1881252 fatal occufrdd i.n the streets of fymiloli, being the. largest - number Mr Tfie 'iigurei r »re.. VCprisingly' large 1 , aijd ypt.it was bnlv one. out of every.l9,ooo inhabitants, ' metropolis ni).\)i-;haying; a' population -of ..,4(700,000. Of the, 252 fatal aciidents, 14.6 by yans, waggons,-djays, and '• cars; 44 byiomnibuses,, and street 31 by cabs; nnd.l4 by carriages, while' 13 persons were kiljed by horses. . The Maritzberg correspondent of the ' " Daily News says very serious reports ar* : current with regard to the state of famine in Zululand, Already the scarqity •of fcjod is painfully felt, the Crops haying failed owi'rg to : the drought. The dry season is now,.commencing, and there is no hope of fresh supplies of food for ■ months. The country is unsettled i the • people are anxiousT and it is reported are ■'.'-secreting po#der/.. A Paris milliner has just concluded a contract by which a dealer in game in Berlin undertakes to deliver the. skins of 80,000 pigeons during the season for' the , adornment of hats .and bonnets. The birds aro to be caught in all parts of. Germany and taken io the railway yard, and there MM and immediately., skinned, - the bkus being forwarded'to'Paris and the carcases retailed for a small sum'each onthe spot, !T&eire is every probability, thajt the,com-' 'jiany riihning steamboats on the Shinewill.sho'rtly attempt to Jight- bo.jh!ahorea , of tfie river ahead by means of the elnctne light, for the benefit of • sightseer* ti.ivol--ling at night, Returns of the nafional'.bureau of statistics, of Washington, show that • 240,537,875 gallons-.of petroleum products were exported abroad : from the tJnited States during the eight months ending Feb. 28, the total value of which was £5,072,878. ' V- - The ring of detached forts ioubil Slrasburg, the construction of which- has cost' iiany millions of mark's,'is",now all .but ' completed. Eleven. in ."all, .they, .aro. variously situated between., five and eight kilombtreu from enciente, and enclose bor side tho city, five snßiSrbs and.,eixlee'n . villages. The average- diameter of the cntrenohed camp thus'protected is about fifteen kilomdtres, •■••• A further despatch from Sir„ Samuel Bowe in contradiction of the alleged massacre of 200 young girls, by the King of Ashantee, has been received at the Colonial Office. Princo' Atisak has been. ■ authorised by Prince Buaki, the father of 'the King, to declare thSfc ! thero 4 wap. np '' truth in the story ;and thgb it: hail' been ' invented by the.enemies ofthe Asjiankes "who want to turn' the.jwhite' man's hand against the King and.' .his: people." Prince Ansah adds.his owh' testiiuony to the effect that the story is ,f, all nonsense and lies." y ' 'A'curious story Is afloat, of a colonel in army, who recently reported ut to head-quarters . because he colonel's, wife a woman...-The ladf was about to jump out of a : , horse to which iai become resU^eJ; and the policeman, bid her keep and in addressing het, applied epithot to her I • i'[ The celebrated tragedian Signor Rossi, , displayed great presence of mind at an alarm of fire which took place ~duripg the performance of" Edmund Kean"atthe •. Opera House in Philadelphia on the 21bI j oft. In his part the actor has to tear o'fi . is. cloak from another player, and in throwling it on one Bide it fell upon a' footligkl V JM caught fire and threatened to set the rjide scenes in flames. A panio wat imminent among the ' audience',, "bul -Signorßossi, seizing the cloak, rolled il up, and called out in bis broken Englishi '" It is all right; it is in'the play." 'Hit powerful voice was heard 'over all thf i -. tumult, and the audience was quieted, ' .. , • Mr MoKay, the-American millionaire has arranged to build an hotel in &hdot . .. 'somewhat on the scale of thePalaca'H'ote .in San Franoi6co, which is equal in aizi .to about forty of our biggest hotels Then -will be sixteen hundred suites of rooms and the cost of tho undertaking- will b two millions. / ■ •