ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1214, 26 October 1882, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

A staiue of Christ, carved by Givadon, has been recovered from a dark corner between two wooden struoturoa, in the Cathedral at Soissons, where it lias lain for 80 years. An enormous turbot weighing lcwt 2qri 171b, has been caught by a Shetland deep Bea fishing boat. The total length of the huge fish was six feet two inches, and the breadth three feet.

The French Journal pfficifil contains a decree prohibiting foreigners unless' tfjpjr aro naturalised FrpnpWn, fron] acting as masters or as engineers &c,, nf Frenctj merchant vessels. The locust plague in Cyprus, if not stopped, }s Btayed. The authorities givp it as their impression that fully seven* eights of tho number with which the island hw been infested, have been destroyed. Preparations are being made at the Ruabon lornworks, belonging to the Now British Iron Company the most extensive ironwork in North "Wales, to relight the blaat-furuices which hare been standing idle for nine years,

Norway is raacjy for q republic, |)cqfessor Boyeseq jays, who htja 'jately boou over the grannd. " '' Lord Spencer, uiqco the Fhcenijj Park tragedy, never goes to Dublin Castle by the same voad on (wo successive days, A gentlemau in Leeds has obtained from a correspondent in the Weßt Indies a novelty in vegetation, viz., a "green" I'OBO,

The locomotives of tho world represent' together, it is said, a power of ovor 20,000,000 li.p,, and the steamships.over 4,000,000 li.p. Professor Blackie, professor of Greek in the Univovaity of pti|jg o|) medjcal at]viq% has resigned his chair, an appointment which ' h'e "Has held since 1852. '

A co-operative (jgency company |)a<i been formed at Bathurst, IJew fcjoutl) Wales, witlj'a. capital of £20,00, Mr John ifosf tag, y\]o pa the fjpf Mayor of Sydney, died on thp 9[(i pf September, The raduotion of the Amerloan publio debt during the month of July is estimamated to have been 12,800,003. ■ A queer Temperance pledge.was once oirculated in Russia. It bound the signers to abstp.in from brandy till brandy should be better and tolerably cheap I The Wolverine costs New South Wales £6OO per month. The infants of the ftoyal fpily of Russia aro invariably baptised 'in vyate/ from the Jordan!!' ' Tho revenue of Great Britain i|p to thq end of July amounted to compared wit)} at tj]e jap date last ypftr. tif ftnnol f^ price of provisions he would require an increase in his stipend, Prinoa Henry of Prussia was to start on a voyage round the world this year on board the Olga, The Prince will probably be away a year and a half. Washington territory boats the-widest gauge railway yet reported, It is an Bft. gauge logging road running back from Skagit Ejver. 'jlhe fails are wood, Bft. by§in. ?' : '.'i "' ■<■ :i ;i ! j; Austrajtyn ostpfch feafhefa senf tjorao by the lent condition", pd rpaijaefl £3QQ. A correspondgnt pf a Wellington papep asserts that there i; af ppent a spof g[) the sun visible to the naked eyp. Gas is now to be used jn sotne of tlje traing funpg (jetpep QlasgW apd, on ftp Qlfjaggw and Sflfl'll Wpsfern raijwftjr. r jgf'