ROUND THE WORLD

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1814, 15 October 1884, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD

"" Black, the novelist, writes so badly that by the time the ink is dry he cannot decipher his own manuscripts, but his daughter can and does', Tru L ,h says the Australians are not equal to All England Elevens. That >vas before they piled- up 551 against . the flower of English-cricket. . The premier' mayoralty in England is enjoyed by Winchester, and its / 700 th anniversary will be celebrated 1 in the course of the present year. :t y Some of the yachts of the New ¥gor Yacht Olub will not go into comriis sion this season. The tornardo in Wall street has been too severe on their owners, . • ' . A committee was organised in London, on June 26, to dedicate a memorial window, in Westminster Abbey to Dr. Charles William Siemens, the electrician. ', The cost of cremation of a body in the Le Moyne cemotary at Washington, Penn., is £B. for which the body is received in a hearse at the depot and the ashes returned.

The King of Belgium has offered a prizo of £ISOO to the author of the best work on the mean's of popularising the study of geography. Writers in all countries'may compete, 7 ;' ■£ By the use of a preparation to darken • her eye-lashes' a well-known young married lady hae become nearly blind- , and now "sits all day long" in "MT darkened room, wondering why sliJ was so foolish... . V * . . ... Thirty thousand -women spend their lives in driving and steering the canal boats- in and midland • - England. - During the last thirty years the" population o£Skye has decreased from - 21,500 to. 5,7.00.. -Emigration andStarvation, A Winchelsea. eleven in England recently scored nine runs in their first .. innings their total at the second attempt was one. It was the Earl of Glasgow who bet . j £90,000 against a Derby favorite in one pop when the ring "shied" the amount. Sir Michael Costa left £30,000 behind him, though shortly before his demise a publio subscription was raised for him, During the past year, 'telegrams were sent in GreatßritanF —an' increase of 640,000- over theprevious year. Th 6 crowd went for Captain Barry at the Sydney Domain on a recent Sunday. The old man had. been touching them on the raw ; From figures published regarding the variations of temperature produced in Europe by cyclones, it appears that J during the winter, cyclones bring warmer air, and colder air during the summer. \ At the San Donald sale in 1870, a green vase which had been broken' and mended, found a purchaser at £1,600 and at the Demidoff's sale three proce-' lain jardinieres were knocked down for • £3780,

Tho "fastest" passage across the Atlantic from New York has been made by the Clyde-built steamer America, it having arrived in Queenstown on Wednesday morning in six days fourteen hours.

A youth of nineteen years of age passed through Palmyra, M., recontjfe en route to New York to join TP parents, claiming to be the long-lost Charley Ross,' He stated that he : had been the captive of a band of gipsieß, from which he has just oscaped. The Maryborough Advertiser says that a society is being formed in ■ ,* Oarisbrook in opposition to the Good r Girls' Society; it is to be called" The • Good Youns; Men's Society." The principle rule it that they are not to be seen walking with a girl after six o'clook in the evening. A remarkable occurrence has taken ; place in Ehondda Valley, acres of mountain sides and tops being carpetted with the carcases of insects rather, larger but resembling .cater-" pillers. The inhabitants are removing them by burning, . .Specimens havo been sent to the University College, London, for examination. Cubed of Dbdtkino.-"A young friend.. of mine was oured of an insatiable thirst for liquor, that had so prostrated his that he was unable to do any business. bßt was entirely cured by hop bitters. It allayea '' all that burning thirst, took away the appetite for liquor, made hiß nerves steady,. and he has remained a sober and steady man . for two years, and he ha? no'desire to. return to his raps, "-From a leading O, Official. $ Bead