ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1712, 16 June 1884, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Bmmm's wi I diaposes' of 62,000,000 dolltrs.

Indiana University lias dropped Greek and'Luiin. ...'.''

Floods have followed the drought in Now South Walos. ' ■ •, A Btacuu of Burns was to ho unveiled in Loidou Ihis mouth,

NawfluittM natifos aro busy.cutting each others throats.

iWuel Miickay. of 1% South Wales, has a fn'iiiofCOUiJ.OjOaores, - '; Tho oldest Gipsy in,the United Kingdom has just died at Orkney, a;ed 102 year.). hm than halt- tho Bchool teajlmrs in France rocoiva under £4O por annum, and only lin 40 recoives £IOO year. Alias Hasting, who is a relative of the great Warren Hastings,, and who resides in ■iMalrtirn, has just complotedhor 103 rd year. Tfcc number of Volunteers enrolled iu 1883 ftos 200,3GB,'tha highest to.al yet roiched. Tho percentage of etlicients was 19.69 _ An otlicial enquiry, is to bo held at homo into the conduct of tho hangman tinns, whoso htemuoranco i said to unfit him for (ho cilice. '

' A joung nun;" whoso head in form and color reeemblcs that of a oa!f," has just boon taken for iuipcctioii"to tho office of the Paiis Figaro, -

■ Hiss Kate Field has juit had an uru mado for her ashes, and Uene.-al Grant ami Gener.il Lieaurogard have juiued tho New Yoik Orematiou fciocioty, Lord Alostyn-tiio oldest baron of tho United Kingdom-is dead, aged 81). For somo years Lord Mostyu reprobated Flintshire h Parliament. : Sir Theodora Martin 'edited tho-memoirs of Pfinciss Alice.

' 'An Army and Navy co-opeiative store has beeii. iatark'd iu Berlin, Ail'eighth of an acre of laad has changed hands at Fijldiug for £4OO, ■ " The M'll»U Gazette is ov.ned and controlled by Mr Chamberlain. The four highest winning sires in Ainorioa last year wero English bred.. Mr Littler, Q,tJ„ stats that (hero are 20,000 homeless children in Loudon

The Australian mare won a bij fl.t rice in India, carrying the sleadk of 13st 410. It was hard lines'for Sir T, Elder to run secoud ia both (he l>ig events oi tho f, ,'■. w, Protection in Canada has resulted iu an incense of failures to the oxteut uf 150 per cent,

The first mimbor' of tho Illualnted Loudon News appeared on May 13, 1842, But tho Morning Glironiclo began to pub list fainyaxecnted wiodmts ia 1830,