ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1202, 12 October 1882, Page 2

ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

The Queon, through General Sir H. F. Ponsonby, has presented £5 to Chief Superintendent Hayes, of the Windsor Police, in acknowledgment ot his services upon the ocoasion of the attempted assassination of her Majesty by Roderick McLean.

Twenty-three convicts have reoently been received into the mission church at Sidon, in Syria, Sidon has none of the glory it possessed when in the olden times it was the great Phoenician seaport ; hut the mission is looking up and enjoying a hopeful degree 'of prosperity; At the annual meeting of the Yorkshire College, held at Leeds, under th e presidency of Sir E, Baines, it was resolved to establish a professorship, of physics, to commemorate the great services and distinguished virtues of the late Lord F. Cavendish, who was for Borne time president of the college.

The United Stales has one medical man to every COO inhabitants, while Canada has only one to 1200, Great Britain one to 1072, and Germany one to 300.

Tho Queen has been pleased lo approve, the appointment'of Mr R. W. Duff, M. P; as Junior Lord of the Treasury, . A company has been founded at Sheffield with a capital of £20,000, to establish zoological and pleasure gardens at Totley, in Derbyshire, five miles from Sheffield.

A sensational statement was lately ma.le in a Loudon police court, in; the declaration of a deserted wife, who complained that her husband had eloped with his mother-in-law.

There has been an unusually large immigration of Irish laborers into England this year for the hay .harvest, Eighteen thousand Irishmen are said to have passed through Cheater and Manchester during one fortnight to take part in agricultural work in the north of England. In the course of excavations going 1 on at Kirkwell, for the removal of one of the oldest houses in the burg, two skeletons were found in an underground vault. A atone found in the structure gives the date of its erection at 1625. At an early date it was the residence of the member of Parliament for the county, '' Professor Paul jerl, of Eranoe, has made experiments Ip determine the limit of safety in using chloroform. He found not only in chloroform, but in all anffisthetics except protoxide of nitrogen, that the death dose is exactly double that required te produce insensibility when applied to dogs, sparrows, and mice. The Eheims correspondent of the Wine Trade Review writes!—" The stock of champagne now remaining on our hands is 60,071,933 bottles (equal to 417,267 hectolitres) and 414,360 hectolitres in cask. Thus we have in round numbers, 100,000,000 bottles of wine in hand, even after the small vintages of recent years," There are 1869 work people, male and female, who subsist in Paris by making personal decorations and habiliments for pet dogs or otherwise paying attention to the canine race. The trade done by thorn is estimated at a total of 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 ftancs._._ .'__ Qne of (lie largest o'fWquart.erly meet-" ings of tjie fjocigty of friends-that of' Durham—has sent' a lettef expressive of sympathy with Mr John Bright and of congratulation that he had the courage to retire from the Ministry, rather than violate convictions long held, The letter 1 carefully excluded any ■ expression •of opinion as to the'oourse taken by -the Ministry, .■'.; ,•- ;,....■,■ ',' ; '■' '"■" Epistolary mortality is. on the increase. Tho proportion of dead letters received during the past year at Washington was very muoh greater than in any previous year, A good many of the Idttßnrthat perished wefe Jottery circulars, some of tbM ! relating to' lotteries'for. religious purposes, the erection'churches, etc A new'use.for glass Jia> recently been .developed in its. substitution for marble tops of tables, and. dressing-cases. A Pittsburg firm has turned out slabs of glass that are said: to be a perfpot imitation of marble; while they.admit pf deco- ; rations otvarions designs both in form and oolor, '■■"■ )■■:'■<■■ •■'.'..'■,■■'

; To those' Who wait 1 a'really first-olass aheari oall'and iaspept' the large variety, at Wellington prices, which' can be seen at Rappft Hare's, Emporium.—Ad?i.

A cable message in the Age states that owing to the continued delicaoy of her \ Majesty's health, the-Queenhas decided,..-... on the recommendation of her medical advisers, to spend the ensuing winter at Mentone. The River Plate distriot this year has ah enormous crop of maize—so, large that although the country is only half cultivated, even in the settled djstriojs, i|. can spare about 200,000 tons. : ; ~7r : . vThe .WealeyaniOhurohes/in -South 7 Africa are about to separate from .the"/? Wejleyan Conference in England, and to '•-.. rely upon their own resources for carrying ;6ut their work in that country. The Hebrew Aid Society reports that 6b^2; ! _Rus«ian' refugees have;aMted in America. '..'_;•• ''.':" •■^'-' ".iy ' ' Scientific men in Japan-are the possibility of-utilising ihelßeTnal heat of the earth, '.,,■.-'• , The Great Westsrnßailrb'ad'hasten merged into the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.:;. ' :•':• i-i!•.;: ~vi',< : A common scandal in Paris is ihat of the Oriental practice of well-to-do Frenchmen of keeping.harems, According to a careful estimate the beer inadein the state of phio in a year is equal to 225 gfaas'es' for every man, woman and ohild-ift .the state....

A company has'haen established for the purpose of supplying the inhabitant! of - London throughout a large area with hydraulic power for the working of cranes, lifts.and. other machinery.. - ; -.. The police force of New York is threat.ened with an erru'ption of giants. "Two brawnybrpthersof Texas are'seeking appointment as patrolmen. One measures 7ft lliu iu height, and the other 7ft Bin. The last'! pay bill" of Jphn.Elder and Co.; the well-known Clyde' shipbuilders, amounted to over £28.000. This was for fifteen days' labour; Nearly 6000 men are at present employed in their yards. i Soon the work of. reclaiming the :Zuyder Zee will begin..-' A ;dyke 'twentyfour and a-.half miles is to. be iioade of sand, faced with clay, and so'high-that it will be six and a half feet above the greatest sea level, The time for the completion of this understanding is estimated at from seven to ten years, and;the crist about 19,200,000. " ■." " " " The four officers of the Austrian Army highest ih/cbminand. in Bosnia are Irishmen, The Governor of Livno is MajorGeneral O'Reilly. The second, officer in command 1 of' the.oavalryjis/Golonel O'fTerlihy, and there are two "Captain O'Sullivans under him. One of the Generals of Brigade is Rudolph Oliver.Swanston,, who comes of a West Cork farnjly. The Dublm polioe. received-taking clothes and everything into account, only £1 a,week. They are a magnificient / body o'fr men, and are to ihbjv a great \ degree ,of. forbearance and. propriety, The members of (he police force in the United States repeive as much ai 4)5 a week.

It is stated, says the electrician, that elec'trio liifhti are being erected along a portion of the Surrey Oanal, and it is probable that the whole length -will eventually be lighted.by the same means. This canal runs through the south-east distriot of London to the docks. The tricycle is rapidly becoming more popular. In London the. doctors and postmen are using them to excellent advantage, making from six to ten miles an hour without fatigue. ; M.; 'Faure, the French inventor, has applied his; storage battery to one, propelling it ten miles an hour. ;'.';■.. Herrßebel, the German. Social Den*';>;< drat, has been sentenced to two "Ift imprisonment by a Dresden'' raagiM , for having insulted the Federal CburiSi^. In a recent drowning case in Fennsyl vania, the jury solemnly brought in tho following verdict!—" Elmira f Showers came to her death by being'there alone in a creek called Cocalico Greek, 'herself voluntarily and feloniously drowned ;and ao the jurors aforesaid, upon their, oaths aforesaid, say that the aforesaid Elmira Showers, in manner and form aforesaid, then and there herself voluntarily and feloniously, as. a felon of herrel.f,. killed and murdered, against the peace and dignity of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania. '"' ; -'') In Michigan, when a white woman marries a colored man, the latter is arrested and tried lor violating.' the law which prohibits intermarriage?.between the races. In Pennsylvania it is the woman who is arrested, and. the charge is insanity. A white woman at Washington recently committed matritoony. with a colored porter, . Her relatives promptly applied to the courts for a'.wril'delunatico inquirendo, and the bride of an hour was torn from her husband's arms, She is now incarcerated iu an asylum at Pittsburgh. At Dublin a woman was 'charged with robbing a London man named - ■' Williams, He accompanied her to an:apartment in ' which was a chair seemingly an easy one. She told him to sit down, but no sooner had he done so than some springs which were in it threw him back and held him powerless whilst the prisoner and another woman robbed him,. The accused was sent to gaol for three months. . Recently Arabi Pasha, white on hia way to the Mosque, stopped suddenly and stared wildly at the air, as if seeing a vision. Then he Btatnped upon the ground and cried out that a gun was buried underneath the spot. Excavations were afterwards made, and, surely enough, a gun was found at a depth of several feet, he had probably >had tjje gun planted there for the excess purpaso Of discovering it in thisofraojalio"fashion/' '"' '' The ofijoial'reports,' bliow that tye aggregate loss fromtbe BJi'gieat 'fires, in, Quebec in tlje.last 36 years has bejjn pvpp £2,000,009, In May and June, 1845, two fires swept.away over two-thirijs of the suburbs of St, Roph and St, Jacques, destroying £BOO,OOO wonh ; of property; on tbo Hth October, 1866, £300,000 'worth of property was destroyed in the districts of St, Sauveur and St, Roch | on May. 84th, 1870, a loss of £120,000 occurred in St. Rooh's. ■ On May 80th, 1876, the distriot of'' St, Louis lost £200,000, and W June 8, ; 1381, £600,000. The public are notified in our front pagp that Bapp and Hare are selling Men's Tweed suits at 80s, we have seen the quality, and can testify. of :the Eame.— Advt. •