ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1739, 18 July 1884, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

k ' The public mind in Maitland seems to * bo considerably exercised in religious matters at present, and the Rev Dr Ellis has incurred the displeasure of the Presbyterian body by soino remarks which he is alleged to have made in the : pulpit, to the effect that the Scottish nation is the moat immoral in the world. In 1861,. England and Wales ivero

represented by 513 members in the Howe of Commons, Scotland by 45, and 4jk Ireland by 100, After the Eeform Act of 'aPt mm^m were respectively 800, ' 53, and 105; and at the present timothey aro 407,00, and 103, " I don't know," said a chorus girl in an opera troupe the other day, " what on oarth I shall do if the sheriff really does seize my trunk, He who steals my purse steals something woiso than trash-my manager's 1.0. U. for back salary—but he jvho takes my trunk reduces mo for ouifit An pair of tights and a blonde wig." is very proper that the French papers should lake an interest in English affairs, but would they not do well to steer clear of the boat race. The readers of the "Gaulois," will gather a rather false impression of the business from being told that one of the features of the boat A race is the coachman who directs the f& manoiiifres, yr A copy of Iho second edition of the Bible in the Indian language, translated by John Eliot, has iust been sold at Brooklyn for £2OO. It was originally in the library of the Marquis of Hastings, It contains tbo dedications of Hubert Boyle, which makes it remarkably rare, as only three copies containing this dedication are known, The Bible was published in Cambridge in 1085. The Earl of Aberdeen, in addition to those previously announced, has joined tbo Wycliff Quincentenary Comrijittee, whose operations are awakening groit interest in the publishing world. No less than 20 new publications dealing with Wycliffs life, times, and work will be issued during this year, in addition to broadshoets, extra numbers, and magazino articles innumerable.

Tho twenty-fifth annual meeting of the tffcrkshire Penny Bank was lately held at TMeds. The report stated that during

the past year there had been 1,149,472 deposits and 197,129 withdrawals. Tho jte amount deposited was £1,230,43010s Sd, and the amount withdrawn L1,01i9,425 14s Id. The number of open accounts at the end of the year was 150,438, and the amount standing to the credit of depositors was L1,59G,408 0s Bd. There are over 200 solicitors practicing within tho city boundary of Melbourne, Of this number 50 have becorno opulent, and are still gathering in costs; 100 are making very fair incomes at their profession ; while the romaii'iug 50 are composed of legal wens, mure cuinnionly known as " pettifoggers," and young struggling solicitors not yet in practise. The late Henry Wikoff, who, after seven months of severe illness from paralysis, was tuned in tho extramunal cemetery of Brighton last week, was a man ot considerable social note. The Chevalier, as he was best known from a title conferred on him by the King of the Belgians, was an American, and boasled

of having crossed the Atlantic eighty times. Thirty years ago he wai supposed jfebe about eighty, and what his age was fplien ho died no ono knew. Ho was

engaged once to an English heiress, and his books entitled "My Courtship and (T its Consequences," and "My Recollec* tiona"' were the rage of Ike oeason. Professor Giuseppe Gazzino, the Italian translator of the works of Byron and Goethe, litis just died at Genoa at the age of seventy-seven, "Peccavi! I have Sciiule," is G. P. Sims' retort to an Indian playgoer, who writing from the city named, makes some complaint anent " Mother-in-law." According to Pliny, fire was a long time unknown to some of the ancient Egyptians; and when Exodus(the celebrated astronomer) showed it to them they were absolutely in raptures. The Persians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and several other nations acknowledge that ancestors were oneo without the use of fire, and the Chinese confess the same o&iheir progenetors.