ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1201, 11 October 1882, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

A Renter's telegram from Buenos Ayre«| (via Lisbon), dated June 15, Bays a dreao%| fulaboident occurred in Montevideo »»| the Masonio obsequies in memory ot% General Garibaldi. It appears that in| consequence of an alarm of fire the 300 5 peeple who were present at the turn were seized with a panio. A rnshl was immediately made for a narrow ease by a number of women and children,; with the reßult that twenty were trampled | to death. .•. ■•'.,..■> '.'■ f

An interesting telephonic experiment';] was tried on VTuly 11 at Malta, during? the bombardment of at Alex*J andria. A telephone wasattached at:] Malta to the Alexandria cable, and con* ? "nection was made with the other end of; the oable on board the Cbiltem, «?ff Alex*. andria, It was found that,. owiriß either to the distance or to the vibration canted by the firing, it was impracticable to Bend a verbal firing at Alex-;> andria was through th*j] telephone, At Mafia*., distance of more,; than a thousand miles. M

The Borne correspondent of the Standard telegraphs :-Tbe Pope, seeing that;,.' matters in Ireland are going as badly asf ever, despite his direoiions to the bishops',! and through them to their flocks, to cause; the law to be respected, has anew in« strupted Cardinal M'Cabe to make sug- ■ •shstionß more effioacious than those; already made for the amelioration of thul state of things.

The Arrow Observer reports that Mr D. O'Phee, farmer, Crown Terrace, lias threshed a stack of Tartarian oats, with the of ISO bushels to the acre-the yield being verified by actual weight. No wonder our oontempnrary declares this to be " the finest yield of urain we have ever heard of,"

: Ono of the earliest importers of sbeop,' to this colony died suddenly in Melbourne last week, namely Mr Robert Chapman, Freethinkers are subject to punishment'; under an old law for dujtributjng heretical:; tracts, but It would be' a curious expert* ment to try under', present .circumplancee. A gentleman .entering the.ChristohuYohCathedra,! 'the; Other day, a'a'd a. mahforced. a tract into his hand, complained to the chaplain. They too| legal advice, and found an Act' of William'TV, the pewm distributing.; .snqh pamphlets': oonjd. \ b| |njd ; 'gy'jnjj prisoned, | _ In foreign qiasjoqs the Moravian Ohuroh ; [ is, the pioneer of the Protestant ohurchesi: It sent.its first missionaries to St. Thomas! f in the Wp»t Indjeß, in 1732. ! Tfjs Bjahop of PflterhpyoMh cannot I help saving gpp,fl thjps, bpth i'n' a'jjiio)!} i of the pu!pjt-esp.ep,iaily out of jt. Onj night a rich, benpvoleut, lut somewhat brainless millionaire was boasting after | dinner that'hp, gave away l2{HjfJ'to 'th|| W, JffflWj evpßr, y e sr-1? H '•'! \ in my pnpifion. J' lay what \f iqbjhes of it, but jt's given away in charity, that's all | know, and that's all I cars about £Bpflpevery'year." '«^at>sais'! the. Bishop; itds'ypu"really raeap tp pay fi you pay away |2QOO tp the poop every j year as a religious duty)" "I assur« I you, my Lord, that is so," - replied the wealthy man, with careless complacency, "Well," said the witty Bishop, "that's the largest insurance against fire I e»er heard of." '• . "

A movement supported by geveral eipijient scientific anc| distinguished peri ionai inpJaliiW'the'lrchbiQJiopVpf flk terborVandTork, W B%in', Italian, end Erenoh ambassadors, ]ifr Tennyßop, and manjr others, has been set on foot for ttip purpgae fiTwrfiflipg Borpp suitable, and enduing rnonunie|it pf PharlpsDar, win. pjiopoga] ia Dyreet a statue in some pnj)|jo placp, an •nfawmpnt to h applied in ftiftlieranej of biologipal spippep, The land Boberue of the Poke of Maneheslei'is now a oerfafnly,' Negotiatloni 1 have been made with the Oonada-Paoifio, I Syndicate tor 5,000,000 acres, in a section 1 running from Brandon to the eastern I boundary of British Columbia, with an ,' interest in all town cites laid out by the li Railway Company. The.price was 2dol f pgr. apro. Thp scheme will ba' 'i called Iheilanadian and Noithwest Jjarijj | Company. 'Jls Capital is }B,000,000(Iol8, ] A jpecial meptirjg of the e?ecp,tiv» ( committee of thp Liberal; Association hat '' been held at Birmingham, at which it "! was reiohed to celebrate the Jwenlyfifth year of Mr Bright's flonneclion with ; that town by holding a two days' demon- ] station, consisting of a public reception ' arid the presentation of addresses and a j dinner. A permanent memorial in the Bliajie'pjaatatijewjll hp erected, and Mr ; B'righf'ls to bijfpregented'wjfhh'is ppjtraif • ant}some iqcjjl art-ipanijfactui-ea. '' ''

Ti)B , fpnpl|}4trajii ) , !gooft,pnreftrre(l to in the atar felgerains, seems tn been femgujat affaip. Jp front vw an '< empty waejmn, This vai\ intended to ; ahnqt o» Hpead-the trajn itopp% ftp time to time-rrto explode any minea which f might hare been laid beneath the linei, \ Then came the first ironolad truck, with j the Nordenfelt barrels projecting in front like the horizontal pipes of an organ/ This truok was followed by three others oramm§<j with blue jackets ensconsed behind s»n4 bags,. sfien cirma {he pneine, behind which, were trot's filled yithrpfiri.' 'jijlolje behinj|'% train follpjfed another with flu resgrvf|. %£ The liquor law of Russia is very comprj. hensive and easily understood, Thero is no ' " local option" about it, but the Czar de- '■■'■", crees that there shall be no more than onedripfcehop in any Russian village, andwprp twpjithrfipvllngjiiai'e pea,? together, the one drink shop will suffic§ for all, and this shall ba managed by a, . man born ai)d resident in the' village, ! who glial) be appointed by the Common Council and paid by salary, He is to da. rive np pecuniary profit beyond his salary, \ is to sell also food and wares, and is j, also-liable to a fine,, .dismissal, and even ' imprisonment, if he allows any man or i woman te get drunk on his premises. In a given contingency, if the population ,j should become notoriously drunken and |j disorderly, the oommunal authorities are v to interdict the Bale of liquor entirely in that district or village, for as long a time as they shall see fit.

Mary Anne Adams is a married woman in London whose recent tattle with fivo pojioenp has excited the envy and ailtriiratiQn of othef Amaz9as of her olasl While out tor a walk with her bugband, a dispute arose between them,which*euded in Maty' Anne weaker'half down, The aßßftiuFwaß witnessed by a conßtable, who attemptcAjto pacify the woman, She-resented nftinterference and laid him alongside her ivnsband. A sergeant of police who oarae to' the awls. tanoe of his. suffering oomnde was treated iu a like manner, and'when at last three more policemen, made v a rush at the woman and threw her to the ground they were unable ..to'take her to the etatioD until a etretoher had heen obtained, on which she was'tied'hand and toot and •carried off. The procession was a melancholy one, as the tnalecombatantijy been severely bjtten, scratched, andf kicked, and Buffering nj.qrft frorn tjje than Idhrins- a.aix njohthal 'campaign in Ireland. ~;f!|e sentenced Mary Anne, tp two r/jiripth'i hard labor,'to relieve her of a good deal af„superfluous energy. • According :v to ;> late London paper, Bgjfptiaiis who diediiSOOO years sro, are beinjj converted ito paint. It is stated they make tery. superior burnt sienna, which London painters are willing to pay sfgpoiprie« for,..