ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1156, 19 August 1882, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

> ;;ThOTB just now ' 'in Sunday oloßing, A; 'j petition off the itbjeot has been presented ! to the Emperor, by most of the clerks at Bt, ; Petersburg' Archdeacon J subject "at Moscow his'. discourse has been widely ciroulated(J' ■The : m6Veiiiienfciß-.da6-p'artly^touhißAdi^.. content of ■■ the classes who are Obliged 1.1 work on Sunday, and partly to 'the eva i'-. gehoal movement within the Russian ■phqrbh;-.-,-,", : > ~. ,> v- ',;'■, ,;> J A'watersgbut h»s rjroken-.oter the vil* . liag'e of Yerafietz,' in Hungary, and' 44 persons were swept away and lost their lives in the rushing waters. Twenty-three ih'ouses ; a stone bridge was earned away ,|Twenty;:, five persons who were on- thejbridga were all d ro.wnled,'Yr>6sit"(jf tr children. Prince'"Henry, 'a sun'of'-thetCrown-, Prince Frederick William, of! Germany,'' is to visit the United States in.the summer. ] '■ ; .Hiruv.;:' ", <! ■';;;.>;• ; lfass., more than 100 .liquor licenVeVhoi'e beeji' granted,; which makes one liquor store for every 200 inhabitants. ITAThTk^ The arrival of immigrants at New York 1 ' :6n?'May ■> 17 :! numbered ; ; ,.;One; steamer .brought.: over 'three, hundred'' Russian HelVew exiles;;'"/.','.:;' ' '',; The Duke nf Manchester ia ;to visit Manitoba t<> inspect lands for a London company, with a view, if the...terms be. favorable, of buying a large tract for re.- ; Bale'fo'small'hnldersion easy i.terms.as;to. payment, ' .'["•::•"■';,; The excuse given by the London Standard for the Queen's holding a reception, on the day nf the funerals of Lord Oavendish'arid MrJßiirkeis)thatit was'a ! very expensive cerpmohy for whioh all' preparations had he <\ made. ■•"_ According tfj'sia < : tibß'issued by the of the'Jiiiiiiinr,'it .appears that since 1871. :crimes and' miß.lemeanors in Prussia.hayeji!ere,ised ,at th'e r enormous . rate of 111 per cent. In 1880 the number , of prisoners; rose,by nearly, 1,5,00.0.:.Tincture .of eucalyptus has been found i by Dr Sinclair Stevenson to have effebied the recovery ,iif a woman, who was suffering from hereditary leprosy, ; i, ,';The) announcement has been made by the English judsjaa that in future they i will not only hear the prisoner's counsel, speak, buiwill afterwavds' listen ; to'the . prisoner himself, i ~,The Spanish Government has notified its.intention to submit.to;the.Odrtosnext session a Bill establishmgirial by jury and a new penal c»da framed on .very. i lioer-il .principles. Mrlsaaq.i'Holden, the new MP., fir , the North West 'Riding; is a hale and i hearty man of 75. He has reomntly built i himself a palace at a of SIOO,OOO. On a recent birfcljday l)e .gave a feasti' to his family, and when they came "to "the ; table his daughters found..in : ,each of their napkins a checque for 50,000. . f ' i The Pre'nWpHmaryedijcation returns ) for Inst year show an' attendance nf 5,049,363, bems! an-' increase ;of 100,000 over the previous return, The allien tees . are reported as 17Q,000,in nurnber; but this figure is thought to .one-third under; 1 i the mark/', The "schools haye increased from. 73,764 to 74,441, unsectarjan schools i baying all but 2q of tliisp increase, while 1 -thei Roman Carbolic-schools show: a net decrease during tbe.year of 89. r,; .- - i The body of Jesuits wljo, soon after the i explosion of (.ho order hV from" Frarioe, opened a collegiate, school at IJalesiplace, ■ just outside. Cnnterbury, haye purchased another estate -hi) the banks of tlje Stour. ; When their new coHpi^is'.,finished the Canterbury Jesuits will have, jhjjarge'st. scholastic establishment of their order in | England. . i ■'- :■) , .At a recent, meeting 'nf f h«' Sk n' Fra;ncisco Miorosbnpioai Society, D:' HarkneSs- [ presented a bottle of" red snow," which he gathered last June on the - Wassatch j Monntaitls. The red snow was found on: the north side of a spur which rose about 10,000ftabove the.Ben level., The."red ) snnwMs caused by ihe-presence"'.of a peculiar plant. r The house of ..working.uirl-On.lqndon. ! caHed Qiirfjejd i:4o9iit fpKrrjai opening pf tyhicb/Afinisfer Lowelj'pj.'e- \, -sided, .pontajns begins, ■ a f a^-aliting-room, ajlibrary, -'■■ and each' btfcilpftfit will .pay for her J accommodation frmn sixty-five, cents lt> j; one dollar a week... ; One nf the feajiiiresj'n tqe Tqrjn exhi-' by'electrical energy. ''Sign'nr' ,: ivaldj, 0r Qmi ana ' shop. -jtacciii j ; ,a«d Nigra, hiveasked, a pnQoasainn from , the Municipal Council'.to,establish bet tween the Eocca Windmills and the: new . bridge on the Po a service of .boats with- • eleq'trjca} propulsion, -' ■'' ,; X '■ ,; vy. y " \r\ . Amer'i,cf}i| bficjtfayeL' is expend t« : lay 1809 brjck.s Q day.'; ;ii| :i l,6ii(}oh; £|QQ is t qnnsidered B'fail I "day l a'.wo)'k:',' ! • ."■-"Bomari railroads' lire now\to be under State control,' Tlioy arg 'i.o. beSdminis-', .! tered by a council, whose dooisioiis on all' .■ mattaw g| jmpnftan'of. will-be Buhjaot tn ;.' reyidw.by.tbe MinisVer ; 'of:"#qb)iD^yqrlfß.' The census nf Ciiicufta r sliowß : 'that,' includiujj natives, Edrusians tnd Euro-: r ppai)B r !there,rtre'3o,4o(J prvfessfng Qhris-, tiaW'm 1 'tjiat oily.'' Of thisr number/ ' i),o9§arp||in^Ca.tl|(ilic S ,^7B,Wlpug tn the Ohiuoli nf: Snglanil, aifl IW 'to the Church of Scotland,.Bs7 are Biptists, 857 ■■Methodists, 692 : Independents, <tc, Only- 29 are classed .-as Unitarians-and .THelstsj'anoJ at a r'ecent'sale of-' rabbits 'thta'^Worinous' :3i}rn nf $Q was 'k'iyen.'Jor one, of'thoae litije, animals.' Qf 'if vjß)s.a. rftbbjt of fa'inous breed,.but jt geeiVjs aq exorbjt,an(i pfice f'i pay tor st) ijjsignifjciiqt an 'animal, One panhfil wonder'tljat a lartje sura should be paid for Jumbo when a rabbit fetches so,mnoh. ,ATt on eiitertaititnent; lately given in ; Washington to eentlemon. ,-only by the Chinese Minister, the ceqterjii&e of the sapper fable a Ghinese p'a«oda three feet bii(H; the; walls'rif"'v|qlet§, jasmines and bjadntjj'a., the roof aiib) balconies of : panaiea,and tl}* project jng iotsnjr^ecqf. repre'stolanferns.''''';,' x ; ; '; ;■■ ;.■}-'■:»'> !'.-■< ■■■..■ Ruldje has at' last been occ'upied by the Chinese. -Recently s-mie 6000 troops ■ 4 thf .'Kmperqr r well 'and" -comnletely armed with wmm of tqijk pospssjon pf-it, , ; 'Tpq r|fl§d cannon and some : ..rapi.d'fjrir,g; OJißspeppt rifles are among these weapons, -It is said thatiti 1880: and 1881-the.Chinese bought from Germany more;than 1.00,000 Chasse* pot rifles that originally belonged to France.' —— r 4 Bombay tejpgranijf Jnne 15 states: •' i|n'ole:of his High; ■' ness'th'e 1 Nizam, ha? been 'sept to-Gol-oonda gaol as'a by §ir Se)]ar Jung. It' appears \U ' fortripr tried "16 aiTest"ah officer owing to a'dispote during Sir Falar'B' absence. On his .return Sir Salar Jurig directed the uncle's, arrest, but he : reaisted, and'ordered'his retainers to 'flre-on'''the- v Mihißter's : 'soldiers.;. Three :■ .after which the b,h,c|e. • was a^estedf. v : ' ' ' ■ t.'v:„ ; -? PrScbweinfurth, the.great:Afncan -■' traveller,' alluded in a recent speech at • the Cairo ' Geological Institute,' ;tq a / wonderful 'discovery of plants dating back t |o j, e.,;,b;yeralr .oet>furiea anterior tb ! the Trojan ;.war. -He, had examined, whole njastes.qfwreaths.Boake.distnuothed.'ahd presßedJ.tHeir,leaW,3andT;aa>6rig 6%[b : ■jj •found well-preserved Upeoimehs of lark- -;. 6pur, of a bright fresh violet shade, whioh are uo longer found in' Egypt, but are frequently, met with in Algiers and Syria,