ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1359, 21 April 1883, Page 4

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Israelites in Austria furnish quite a number of converts to other confessions, chiefty to Catholicism. In 1882 ..no tees than 181 Israelites in Veinmt embraced 'ho Catholic religion, of whom 101 were> males. Most of the feminine converts abjured their faith for-the purpose of extracting marriages with Christiana, I'lie ages of the converts vary from 14 to 64 yearß; most of tho men had attained 'heir 38ih, mnßt of the women their. 28th' vear, On the other band, 43 members of Christian confessions went over to Judaiatp. H.MS. Conqueror, which has been constructing at Chatham for several years, was taken out recently for a trial of her engines over the measured mile off Map'in sands. She was to hftve.been ready f«r sea by the beginning of April. ~The tlnr.qnereris a turret-ship and,rami of 0200 tons, and is fitted with engines of 1500 horse-power. , Her armour is of s eel; The hull has . cost J280,000, arid 'lie vessel will not be completed. much nmler £350,000. The results of her trials exceeded the most sanguine expectations. According to Captain Shaw's report lie-e have been 121 accidents anions; his t 'iii.'i.n r) iirlnfj -paßt' year, mauyi of them '. P en very serious, and,three,'of , if-i li-'Ving terminated fatally. "r'lif.' Chiiiles of Prussia has left' •':ii00;000 ; 'O, his son, prince Frederick; OliaiW 'The Prince also'inheritsi.ihe vh>o -inrl schln33 of Somionhergi.and the; eh*ra. ng; residence nf 'Glienickp, near P.iMatn, wiyer j bis father kept his famous iwckol.liloiibhounds.. " .. The truth of tha doctrine of purgatory as held by Roman Catholics' 1 is about to ■ be tested in the courts. A man in Australia left 11400 to be used 'to-deliver his from that alloged state, of.existahce and j the executor''decline's to" pay the money without local proof that it haj ■been really earned, " Fencing has been adopted by the ladies in Paris as a fashionable exercise,'.and the, tiPR of the foil is now general, among tho belles of Parisian society, The principal fciiemp masters all count a certain num her oj fair pupils who devote' themselves tr. the healthful evercise with^conßiderable eiier"/. '■ Nearly 900 decorations We distarbed' at Btiiliu iii honour, of the'eilyer Wedding,' in addition' to. an almost' incalculable, number of Medals of Honour/ .The list; of Knights of the classes, of the fted eagle, Crown, and Royal .House; of Hohe'iizollern filled eighteen opiums of the of the Imperial Gazette, l ti :i' - Actors and actresses -cannot 'lead-'suoh-rthsipaieri lifes as some try to make put, or-they would notice to'siioh ages' ad they Last year's deaths amoniz the "bus" includp.Madame Celesta, aged 70; Henry Forrester,; 551' Miss f.IT.TM/jKell.yi') 92':ji A 'thur Skeichley, 04 j atid v ße'n." WebsWr) 84. ! Sojgrfiat is;the antiquity of, :tke see of Canterbury that Lanfrano, who wa's' its tfjrfit occiipant, affc|rtlie Nornjm Conquest, wiia ' since its original Wabliahwobfi<