ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1670, 26 April 1884, Page 4

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The Italian Government has determined to olfer, on the occasion of the opening of the Turin Exhibition, a prize of £420 for the most practical process for tho transmission of electricity, There are only four of the old soldiers of Napoleon First left at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, Their respective ages are 92, 92, 94, and 95 years. Power, the bushranger, will shortly be released from Pentridge. His sentence! is nearly completed. A benevolent lady has undertaken to provide for him during the remainder of bis life. A Melbourne newspaper prints the following:—ln Auckland the tradespeople have a list printed weekly, containing the names, occupations, and places of residence, of those who do not pay their debts. At Wagga (N.S.W.) the other day, two women, in order to evade the provisions of the Vagrancy Act, married before the summonses which had been issued against them were returnable. They were according discharged by tho Bench. At the criminal session at Adelaide the judge ordered the acquittal of a prisoner named Magnus, charged with biting off the ear of a constable who arrested Mm, on the ground that the policeman had acted improperly. A negro who has been arrested in a suburb at Cinconnali, has confessed to the murder of several persons in order to soil their bodies to the Medical College. No blame is said to bo attributable to the college authorities. At Wolverhampton a Mr George Stephenson's pedigree has been traced to one of the immediate collateral branches of the family of William Shakespeare. Wells' " nouan on corhs."—Ask for "Wells' "Bough oa Corns." Qnjok relief, complete, permanent care, OWflB waits, bunions. Jtf, Z, Drnj Co. I