ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1988, 12 May 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Mr Parnell, M. P,, speaking, early in January, at Eilltown Malbay, Clare, congratulated his hearers on the successes gained by the Nationalist party, and denounced those who took laud froin which others had been evicted, but riiade no reference to the dynamite outrages in London. ;

In a letter to Mr Albert Grey,: M.P., Lord Grey says that he considers it to be absolutely necessary, in order to have a good House of Commons, th.at.some means should be adopted to secure to the men of various classes and'opinions their fairshare of representation, and he thjnif this result injght beeffectually accomplish; ed by the scheme tatiqn. ' ' "

Am.ericp newspapers are'much exoy, just withljjp w.hjjjj Hf iVR-ef trip Englisjimap, wh.fi landed in. New YerK" one mqrnjng re.cen.tiy, a.nd took a. steamer fq?. Li.yerpnal tho s.am.e afternoon, He said lie had seen enough, A singular ciroumstanoo occurred recently at Canterbury Cathedral, morn: ing service having been commencedßfeh. out a single worshipper beyond Inose officially engaged, At the close the congregation numbered two persons. Scotland Yard gets its name from being on the site of an old palace built for the accommodation of the old feudal kings of Scotland, when they came to London to render homage to the English Kings for their English possessions^ So far as territorial area is concerned Leeds is the largest provincial town in Great Britain, covering 33| square miles. Sheffield follows with 30|; and then come Birmingham witli 13|; Manchester and Bradford, 10 ; Newcastle-on-Tyne, BJ.; Liverpool, Glasgow, and Salford, 8; ■and Edinburgh 6£, The storyis tofd of a plumber who pre* sented a bill of £IOO to a retired milMlaire for repairing a pipe. The millionaire glances at it and hands out a sovereign, "Receipt that bill." "But, sir—" " Don't' but' me!" interrupted', the rich man' "I know what I'm about. I used to be a plumber myself." Plumber Biniles, receipts bill, and returns ten shillings change, •. A few weeks ago a squire in'. SrapnaJi was called out to tiea'couple together ft the holy bonds of'inatrim joiiy."' f|ettirig to the river he found'iii'impossiblel'tojcrpaf Determined not to 'disappoint them, lie summoned the couple to the.water's edge on the other side of tho stream, and having gofc : the. groom to He a rock to tlw license anil pltph it over, he proceeded''tq tie % knqtat'tiio'ton of his voice. ' ' ,v ' *'