ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1235, 21 November 1882, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

: The King: of the Greeks will visit England during the coming anlurau. Municipal elections in England have resulted in favor of the Conservatives. Leigh Smith Bays that the scientific results of his Arctic expedition amount to nothing. The.Wesleyana have 16,000 communi r cants in Jamaica, and the United'Pr'ei* hyterians 7000. ' Dr Otto Reinhard, the discoverer of alizarin dyes, died on August 19 at Losohnitz, near Dresden. According to Figaro, Sir Hercule'd Robinson is about to resign his the Colonial Office. : Texas is said to have 50,000 acSffoT school land, rapidly appreciating in value, and worth £20,000,000. The Crescent mills and elevators it. Den»er were burnt on Sept. 12, The, estimated loss is ±'45,000; fully insured. ' ' • At Vancouver Island constant conflicts are taking place between the Chinese railway laborers and the farmers. The earnings in England by convicts the last financial year amount to £16,111, and the " profits on farms" to £2293. The geutleman who accepted the commission to hang the . Irish murderer, Hynes, it Cork, is a Primitive Methodist local preacher in Yorkshire.

Pops Leo XIIL instructed the Pontifical Almoner to distribute GOOOfr, among the poor in Rome on the festival of St, Joachim, his patron saint, A mysterious sickness has broken out in the railway camps in British Columbia, It resembles typhoid fever, andphyaicans say it is caused by drinking bad tea, The provisional committee for inaugurating the movement for paying Irish members of Parliament have issued, with Mr Pameil's approval, and address to the Irish pointing out the necessity for an organisation to return men to support Mr Pameil's policy, Tko reports furnished to the Minister of Agriculture of the exteut of the inundations caused by the. lato downpour of rain in Prussia furnishes a shocking picture of desolation. The amount of injury cannot yet be ascertained,. Hail alone bas this summer inflicted damage in Wurteuiburg to the extent of £600,000. It is understood that the Speaker of the House of Commons will not fill the chair after Parliament is prorogued, It has been pretty well known in tho political world that thia was to be Sir Henry Brand's last session, ana when he has done his part in seeing fair play over the now rules, he will go to " another place" and sit as a peer in the Upper House.

The new fortifications on tha Dardanelles are being armed with heavy Krupp guntr. 1

All the colliery strikes in the United Slates aria ended! the strikers wero starved into surrender..

Numbers of Russian ■■ refugees, for whom no work ib. obtainable? ate beiuj?; sent back to Europe from Now York and Philadelphia, I', is stated that the coffers of the Italian State now contain 650' millions of coin laid up towards the abolition of the forced paper ourroncy. The Bank of France is having printed 90,000,000 of 100 frano bank notes at the printing office attached to the Lank buildimj. The new note ii reported to be a marvel of beauty and elegance of its kind. The original drawing was three metres long by one and a half deep, and when oompleted was photographed on a reduced scale to the size of a bank note. It is asserted that the friends of Mr Bradlaugh have determined on raising the question of his right to sit and vote in" the Houso of by nominating him, ill the ovont of a dissolution, for nearly 20 constituencies, not bo much in tho liopo of securing his return in oach case as with a view of arousing public interest in the matter. A fnnd, which is termed a Parliamentary Fund, has already beeu started.

A.t Radomyal, in tl)e Government of Kief, twelve Russians have been tried and found guilty of participating in tjiu anti-Jewish riots in that locality last December. All were condemned to lose civil rights, two to three years' imprisonment iu the House, of Detention, one to two years, and the remaindor to eighteon months. A most painful feature iu yecent roturns is in th§ increase of §uicido among boys, which has also been noted iii England of late. In the four years, 1.876-80, 198 boys under 15 took their own lives, six of them being under nine, and one only seven years old. Tho numbor of girls who committed suicido in tho same period was but 40. < For the year ended June 30 last the imports into the Canadian Dominion from Great .Britain were £8,716,761, against £6,186,626 in 1870, when the now tariff cauio into operation. Tho imports from tho United States for tho same year were_; £6,340,824 and £8,747,843 respectively. These figures show.that the imports into Canada from Great Britain are increasing steadily, and that those from tho United States are decreasing.

[Advertisement.] ■. TO THE EDITOE, Siu.-I am very sorry to observe thai Mr Robins is annoyed at my having aafjgeated a fair means of vindicating his daughter s reputation ao a teachor, aud at the same time to satisfy the public as to the truth of his. statement that his daughter possesses, flattering testimonials liiveu her by Mr Grundy, the Head Master. As Mr Robins is afraid to publish them I am inclined to believe that she does not poeseas them. With regard to my writing anonymously, I would point out to Mr Robins -that he first challenged criticism by atlaoking the maater and making statements which have no foundation in fact, Mr Robins has very foolishly done his daughter great hirm by entering into a, newspaper controversy, It is a very nice thing, no doubt, to pose before the publie as a martyr, but whon he does so next time, I would advise him uot'JiA .' combine with it the doubtful role ol\' convenient tool for an opposition mIF. man. • »v I am not fond of seeing ray namo in print, so I sign myaulf CON^UD,