ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1290, 30 January 1883, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The ex-Mayor of Portamoutfi'(Alderman JVhitcome) has given £2OOO towards foundation of a Portsmouth-floholar: ship in the Royal College of Musio. One thousand pounds have to be raised by the inhabitants. : The Pennslyvania Railroad Company has (says the New York Medical Herald) jmrohased 2000 tin boxes containing a few simple surgical instruments likely tci be uaed.in case of acoident. The boxes are kopt on the locomotive. According to,a telegram: received at Madrid irom Manilla in November iprae native insurgents made an attack upon a Spanish fort in the Sooleo Islands, but were completely defeated with a loss of 70 billed. The Spanish loss was 15 killed and several mounded.. . Order has since been're-established.-' ■ : < On November 16, the Dolra,'steamship, of Sunderland, while off Hasboro, in squally weather, passed a large raft, which appeared to have three or four dead bodies lashed to it, and the sea washing over them. The raft could not be secured in consequence of the Rale and. high sea then Experienced. "" Pigeon races are so popular in Belgiim that in,the province of Lifega alone 31,250 carrier pigeons were sent by rail in March, 362,250 in April, 382,500 in May, 268,500 in June, and 96,000 during the first three weeks of July making a total of more than a million for less than five months,, More.than a thousand railway vans were ' required to.carry them to their desljina-, tion.; ' A clwrch in Ayrshire, Scotland, being without a pastor, has nearly a hundred applicants for the vacant pulpit, The. elders have registered the applications as they .have come in, and signify their intention of giving eaoh man hit turn at far as may be, until the congregrtion shall be aimed with the man whom they consider to bB sent from the Lord, - ; The New York Sun bas ; the following concerning James Gordon Bennett's new cable; scheme The making and laying of the cable is .to cost 2,200,000d015,, of whioh Bennett subscribes l;000,000dols,and promises another 1,000,000d01s !iha< second cable is neoessary< The .total xapitaV is to be raised to 5,000,000d015, and the ne« cable to be worked-in con'Ceotipn with the Baltimore and Ohio telegrapliiyßtem, '-- i v i ■fmAccording to a Barcelona paper ,#!^w i; 'dyeing procais has been discovered..by,a . iWelltknown firm at Tabadell, which 'will tend ; to produce a revolution in ' the art, 'and:especially in cotton dyeing, It con* siata iii the use of a new mordant, by which ;even black may be produced,in a veryiittuob shorter- tiine!a| a?edufed cost, ,and w|th greater brilliance anti "permanence tiian hitherto,