ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 30 November 1883, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Hospital Sunday in Melbouvno netted £3971,

The French Government have placed about 170 judges on the retired list.

The post-offico department of the United Kingdom employs 86,000 persons.

The poultry produce in the United States last year amounted in valuo to £112,000,000.

It is reported tlmt ovor a million cattle have died of disease in Russia during the past four years, There are about 200,000 counterfeit sovereigns in circulation in Groat Britain, They aro so cleverly niado that even an expert finds it difficult to distinguish them from the genuine coin. The image and superscription arc perfect and oven the milling regular.

A magnificent table set with gems, which was valued at several thousand pounds, and which for a long time has been one of the chief sights at Warwick Castle, has been found to bo considerably chipped, the fragments having been carried away, The outrage is attributed to some Americans who visited the castle just before the discQ>ery, and during the absonco of the attondant, • Well informed members of the New York tea trade state that tho yearly importations of teas into tho United States have been from soventy-fivUo eighty million pouuds, and amount twonty per cent is of a qwffcty unfit to drink and injurious to the health of consumers,