ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1878, 2 January 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

'The House of Lords has, in tie last fifty years, been reinforced ' by, 181 Liberals and 68 .Conservatives'.' jla the same period the Liberals havefmade 225 baronets; the Conservative-total is 7.7,. -<•,

M, Waldteufel, sen., the composer, has died at Strusberg at the age of eighty-three. He was best known as a waltz composer and as the director of the orchestra at the Court balls during the last Empire. ••• Jit , j QueettiKaliza; potentate of -Italy's: new;- colfjoy .or, Aesab, now lionizing at Turin,'though only sweet sixteen, is the mother of two young -prune-colour.e'd princes,aged respectively ve yeaw,* • Captain JbhtfTray nor| .who "•undertook a transatlantic'voyage iri VJ&fjbpt dorv,. is. reported to; have give&pP all further -attempts to-iaecotHjilisji the feat -. this, year, He sueceMed ia accomplishing nearly one-tliis: the [.distance.- ' The Athenroum states new weekly, devoted to the pt6pa|atipn ol Socialism,; is about *to and managed' by' Mr aMr Htary George, and Taylor.' The price will be '® hslo penny. , .; Ah opponent to' Mr Oscar and all he.- womanSi' dress has appeared in the person ofpafyoung lady graduate.' 'She"has the bes|'6f the, intellectual'dispute at present;;;? Oscar < wants..women .to': dress like*-orecian statues. Surely not—not liketffyram Power's Greek slave. ' . % , ■V ; : A lettei has been published-'in jfr English contemporary which some edifying, information:las : |<? 2w> pastimes of the Garrison The writer' says"We' sollHtho enemy beautifully the ot-her/'higlifc. They Tentured- too hear; waylaid a mine, with gun cotton, etc., M'ilew them to fragments' We picked up fourteen the next morningi-'iks wa thought- they were particularmtaking their dead away,, we take the legs, arms, heads,"and iiriinks of those we found, and strow "thejp carelessly about. We then laid'; another rains underneath them, that the enemy would come pd afep o)) the mine, when of course they would have been blown to the same warm spot their comrades had already gone to." We- English are exceedingly fond of reading the French lessons on the .sanctity of the .usages of civilised wqr* far? ; but do the usages of civilised warfare, whatever they, may be, uphold the baiting of a trap to cißcil Arabs with the mutilated rematfra their luckless comrades 1 Mr Garrard said he would.vote"dead against St John's outrageous proposal. There were too many women in the land already, and what we'really want is more men. Only the other day he was told the tale of a clergyman who was called out o? bed at 1 a.m. by a , countrywoman of Mr Buchanan's who implored her to marry her . at once for fear lest she should lose her lover, ''But, my goo.d' wonian ; '' s&i(J J th(j clergyman', as he poked his recj nigljk cap-decorated ljead out of the bedroom window, 'U have married you to three husbands already, Dont you thinl? jt rather frequent 1 I want a rest, even if you don't. Where's the Haymarket warrior that I married you to on Friday last f "Well, t' tell'y' tha trooth, sir," replied the weeping dame," he's dead. He didn't know the gun was loaded, but it was; and that made the seventh husband I've lost durin'th' last twa years, I'm sure there's nae another women in the wurrild that's bedßßf. mented wi'sech a set of gowlsfflfrin' men as I've been,

The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, of New Zeiland, who gave a lecture on fjjaj; country at the Metropolitan Tahernacle recently, seems to' Have the saiiie happy knack of combining worldliness 5 with godliness fjia lather, and; there is capital "business" between them, 'Mr Spurgeon, junior, playfully remarked that the New Zealanders wert "by no means the outlandish people some imagined, for they had all; the best products of civilisation; sew, mg machines, sfoaui tram ways, an'tj Spurgeon sermons." : Mr Spurgeon, senior, letupned the. cqmpjiment by congratulating the good people of Auckland on having a pastor so liko himself—a man above all things, who was "not. overburdened ; with refinement which is a thing not cultivated. here," with whioh remark , the sent round for subscriptions new tabernacle at Auckland," of ffljh'fh needless to say, Mr Spurgeon®ior is to be the pastor. ' ' '

An interesting exam'pjer.of utilisation of waste sliopwmdqr in■" ifew '.^k; 1 in shape of a numbet pf knks of 'threat} of different tocturep and colours, some beiiig poft ss tjie finest silk, otjers as as hemp, These hanks are t|e :■ J -reggJ qf an. attempt, .vyhjcji seems likely to be successful, to utilise .the lyariotjs \yiJ4 This is Jiovv announcements »rp made froiL the pulpit ofCraithie'Churol) in Scotland,; "Dearly Belqvedßrethren —Previous to singing the se«<jnd hymn will you {ake notice that- ofy'amj after Monday next, (he coach "from Ballator to Balmoral will start five'minutes earlier? Also that Sandy Macpherson has lost a colley dog, which answers to the name of' Wallace',) L bringing the same to the head at the Castle will be rewarded, All; that all copies of the sporting papers containing an account of the late, great fight between Jack Massy "and. Cpddy Mipdlngs are to be returned jjrajie Royal Free Library at ionce, wwfll now sing the second hymn." ; ( A Scotchman who had at andfrly period of his career come to London, and as is proverbially the case with folks of his nationality had remained in the metroplis, wai at. tile bpdsitje of his dying wife, who-had originally come from the Highlands, and had always retained a strange, affection for the land of "her birth. "Promise me, Angus,'she. said, " that ye'llbiiry me in the Hielands; I could 1 never rest quiet down here." '"Weer replied the prudent Angus, who did not relish the. expense of' removing the body to Scotland, "weel, I'D just.sel If I find .that ye cannot rest quiet "here I'll have ye removed to the Hielands,"—Topical Times. "

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