ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2018, 17 June 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

: Mr Hugh Conway has sold the rit>ht- of newspaper publication of the n'e&vel which he has just completed, to'aJiuiicate of newspaper proprietera for IeiOOP The syndicate expects to mate a hand--somerprofit by re-selling therighttoa : number of provincial newspapers/, and one : 6f import-ant. dailies- 'in the ' north ••■has offered £l5O for: the almost > exclusive right in a great county; ■/■ ; Several months ago the Rjiwian Gpy; J ! i ernraent interfered to sioh work that for seven or.ejghji yearly has been carried on in the Empire'by theM •Religious Tract Society of £ohdon..; It ii% now stated, however, 'that all thViradt»4l confiscatedfhave been returned by the";/ Government, and permission has' been •'::';■' granted to resume the work of gratuitous ■ distribution of religious reading, "'' ; The Oregon, one .of the Cunardline, made seven'' passages to America and back last'season, and going East never steamed, • less than. 400 miles a day, nor did aha! ■ •vary, more than four, hours ,in the trip.: She made the best record out and home, namely, 12 days 21 hours 9' minutes, in■-'. average of 212-sth miles per hour;! 'f- '• German trade journals pre Hakjjdy bewailing the activity of:. ErigHshißO- . moters, no less than thrW inereoant banking companies being .reported-to b» about to.exploit the nerc.Geiman colonies' with English' capital;- 'lt is 'even 'stated in Berlin that' the; British! G.oyerriment has helped, to create tteae'nsiy ijotdpaiiies; and the fear is'there expressed, that the iniquitous but .prompt .Englishman wilL have, sewed business'-ioytime'to, 'leave' the' slower ' ■German traders the merehusks/'-'''* •'" •■ , Till within "a few years >the ; -: pulse of|4' the House of Commons could be'felt onlyd by its own members.v -The; outer-public' '■ knew pf'it;ho .more than was to be-V •learned • frpm ■' shorthand, reporters£ and ■ the reporters, themselves '.were directly •■' concerned - jw'Mi • -nothing '.lieside; the ■speechesmade;' Now-thehouse has been: compelled to relax its rules so as taadmit the intrusion of personal journalism. '• From picture, as well as from narrative, we are enabled not only to read whajj pur. representatives say,, but also tq leajn in •.;. what way they comport even how theydreaa. . ■ i : w - r : J '-M- ' •-" Some of well nigh,' historic;' Tlus'cpstlpt• m ' known is said to b,elong to the Duchess, of Edinburgh, its value being '£12,000, Adelina Patti has .a suit of sables that cost£BoQQ,..MrsJ, W, Maokay ownsa mantle of the choicest bits of 10,000 fox • skins, for which £4OOO was paid.'' : . The floating gardens at Rashmir in ; Eastern Asia, seem to be one of • the wonders of the world. They coyer an ' expanse qf water about .'nine/milea in .., circumference, and on a subsoil of ;: and aquatic plants they grovmelons and . 'cucumbers,'and a crop is' rawed of great ' value. ' . •' " q Australia is to the'{os, even, at tha? ' Ameer's reception in,, -Jkm -Pindif ; According |p thelrip- newspaper" fi' Am ,?s fl Jse' coach; is" a' WgVdMiesa shape tyrpuche, drawn, .by'feur bay-■ walers.. Sixteen picked horses are/ provided for the'-Ameer, who brings a . nu.tnb.er with him, , All the walers are" furnished by Cope and Co.' "Walers,"' in India, is the generic term for Australian hows, Mr William Wickman, assistant at-thf ■■■ Santiago Astronomical Obser'vate,' \u ' furnished the following particulars of "M"" coine| W, pill* which - Santiago of "IfpYe'm,-, ber. If' canfpol'be \<®i jit' eight' p'cM p.m., 25 dc|'belpw the horipon, in» 6 constellation of the Whale, and ia moving lna : westerly direotion, The comet was discovered by Mr Wolff, of Heidelberg, on September 17 of last year, The English billion (a' million millions) has set Sir Honry Beaaameron to oalculate, ■ He reokons that a billion seconds have not elapsed since,.the w.orldbegan, aB.; they would reckon 31,087 years'W days - 22 hours 45 minutes .5 seconds,- £',.' chain of a billion'sovereigns, would paw 736timesarp ) fljp glpbl'-'Wlying [im by Bjde, epph in ■c'oritot^with ; dls'ti'e?g|i i hour, yfould'form about' the earth a goldjjjp zone 26ft'6m wide,' Tho' §aiiie 'ch®, were itstretched out' atraigh^,'.woiiUVrii wq : a line a fraction oyer 'lß','32i,4si irules % extent. For mpas.urjng hejght, $ tfepro chose for a ulijt, a single sjie'eji of paper W about qne three of an inch in th'ickpess! AbiJlionpf these tip sheets, ;pres,se'd put flat and ■ piled vertically upon eas other, would attainanaltitudeqf47,3s miles, -,' One Oscar Murray;;,who allowed his■:: 'soul togo out to his love in poetry, has - consented to pay £2OO - damages tgjhe subject of his effusion for to lot the fever run its course. He.wroto :- The maiden's face is fair to sec, - • The maiden's form is s]\M i self % lover's dear delight.' • V ' . And npw ho wonders'wlietlier wa\' ■''■■ hot a prophetic rneaning- jh 'the laif, lufiaV