ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1152, 15 August 1882, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

A New York cleruymau has petitioned theßoard of. Health,tq,stopthe (l barking Ofa-dou i|i,:B»,Hdjaceiii','pf,a':.le; 'because the health uf hi* mother, who is 80yea» old, snffera from the noise.

:' The said to be the largest'sailing 1 ship ever 'constructed. Bbe was built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, is constructed of steel, is 260 ft long, and capable 'of carrying 3900 tons dead.weight, ihehas four masts. Her owners are Thomas Dioksoh' 1 aiili Sons, Belfast -

; • The French Government is.raaking pre. paratio'ns to send out asi Antarctic expedi. tion to jCape Horn. M. Maaoart, the head of the Burnt} Central, has been communicated with for the appointment of m'eterologieal and magnetioal observers. The expedition will be fitted out for a period of 17 months. ">>" ~ In place of the. Freiheit, after the arrest 'of ; the; .publisher? ; a ! small' : printed sheet was issued, containing an address to,;the v social,. ' reyolutiopiste' londoo. Aftor reciting the'faottlof.the various legal DWeeijinga directed, against that i'ournaj the article goes on tq say th'aj; no 'printer could bo found jo London >tp print th'p Freheit; 8,n4 thefefore'rio number' coqloj be issued jhat week,.or perhaps the following week. ; London authorities estimate tha.t the number of unemployed', mechanics, artisans, plerfe* and unskjlled laborers in that city is fully 35,000, and that 50,000 va«rants mam the ootwtry outaide,'of the great towns, ■■'' X Samuel Crookes, one of the confeder. ates of Willjam Br»«dliea(J in the trade outrages committed in Sheffield from 185? to 1866, has just died in that town at an .advanced age. In 1867, after several examin:iti >ns. bef-re 'me commission up'pointed, to ..inquire tutu the oun-.i K ei, Crookes received a certificate of indemnification from prosecution, , The German corvette Mbltke has been ordered to take on board at Morif Video, !» July, the. inemhers of the German South polar Expedition, headed by Dr ■ Schrader, the aatronomei, and laid them V, on the island of South .Georgia; whioh -•'* has.heen selected as tho tnost appropriate site for a meteorological olbaervatory. The expedition ib to remain ; oh the island for a year..' . ' , The deopestmine in the world;'aooording to Professor Hoefor, of. the Academe Impe'riale dea Mines,W the PriSrand silver mine in Bohemia. The lowest depth lis nearly 8300 ft below the Surface. At this depth the temperature nf the rooks is only 24-4degO., corresponding 75'90deg P.; and the temperature of the air, aocordiog to the same authorjty, is76'3deg P., so that up to the preseiit only,natural ventilation has been required. '. The following remarkable circumstance is narrated by an Indian newspaper:— •" In 1856 a large batch of'commissariat ale was sent out and. condemned, when the European troops ww> limited"ti porter. And In pVjer tfioy wor i consekept until a few rnimihs"»Ro, when • General llniding'e heard of the matter; and by a ei'mple representation to the Indian office removed a'stupidoustom 'of 26 years'standing.

~Thei ßo ld-.;imported into Indja {ran} Thibet hsi k lately been estimated to be worth about 10,000r to 12,000r per annum, and is'harteied at fairs in achange for grain or ploth. The gold mines art worked: by pits and shafts underground, and the gold; after under- * going no other process than, washing and sifting, is tied up in little % weighing about. 90gr, whioh form the heavy cur* renoy of the country. Among the' barbarous', customs that : British, rule has not 'yet suppressed in North-western India is that of Samedht "frying people alive. It appears tha, the Tbakoor of a certain State sent an officer,to a,village ca]led Upnt tooolleot certain revenues, and when he arrived the biddai refused tq.'tq pay,' As the offiqqF insisted that they must pay, 15Q\ of them in order to intimidate ihim, collected before his door and threatened to commit auioide if he failedlto .give way. Still he put, and thereupon they selected two of their number for the barbarous sacrifice -a man aged 85 and a woman aged 65and on laud owned' by the Tbakoor. .buried them both alive, Certain of the villagers triad to.prevent the deed, but were soundly panisljedfqr their trouble. Since the event ocpurred, 37 of the Siddh's taken into oustody, and 10 have been sentenced to various terms of .imprisonment, ~,. : ■ 4 young girl at Bed Bluff, Oal., was so raortifysd • because sb/a foijnd that the j gentleman who accompanied her to tha theatre was dressed as an ajsthete, and that he had asked her-to go in order to ' win a bet,.tnat she went melancholy mad refused all food, suffered the most intern*. . mental agony and died < The Daily News reports that Mr Gladatone ! 'having!'barefully gone into the .figures, has arrived at the oonolnaion that - half a million sterling is the maxium sum which the Exchequer may have to pay in supplement 'of' contributions from the'; WBh .Ohuroh. Tempprahties Fund in settlementbi arrears. ••-''•-'. ~. Tlw design for :: a; monster\XaA l v which lt.was intended t-j lay dow!nF Mv -. Portsmouth M.»nfß!i'to-tha turret ships,"' . has, it is stated, been ibandoned. la it» place atorbetteship,; similar in most respeots to the Rodney and the Howe, will 08 commenced during the present year. > Scotland is' spreading.-The FatnferV Alliatioe of Aoenl&nsoufcuumbers nearly 7000 memAt a ..recent, held at Aberdeen, a oompiittej.was appointed to - *«tW* qiadstona; an 4 explain 8"' nmithe necessity for au immediate refonn of toe land laws. .. .. T. of ".Geneva, -Switzerland, fur- * nwhesfaterfor small "engines at pernio yard, under prus: » ■JJ-W,:« '■# .atmospheres, thus giving"'» onlyvhalf tho oharge" that is made for 4omeitio purppjeg, ;;Two kinds of apbara- * usareusedfor motors, oheiaoting on mm of jUia turbine and the other which are aetnated by .pressure, b. th. pn»»=getieraJlyipreferred ; """