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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2036, 8 July 1885, Page 2

Of the five yearlings sont to Sydney by the Auokland Stud Co,, there to be sold by auction, two were purchased by a New Zealander, Mr Mitchelson securing Rosette and Atlantis. . Among the recent Carnival festivities at Vienna," A Beggars'.Ball" carried off the palm for eccentricity. Tho guests were got up as thieves and rascals of jfeis lowest _ type pickpockets, coiijjfe defaulting cashiers, armed burglars &c, The ladies wore the costumes petroleuses, chiffoniers, and the like. One of the most amusing representations was a group of men quarrelling violently. Their faces were scratched and bleeding -a parody on the lively scenes in the Croatian Parliament. Prizes. were distributed for the best-dressed and bestsustained characters, and the first prize was won by a lady whose toileut bristled with tiny revolvers. The timber rafts of the Rhine are. a notceable characteristic of that river. ' They consist, of timber felled in the mountain forests, and brooght down to • the Rhine by the Necker, Main," Moslle' and other rivers. - The single. km are' first hurled down the heights'into' tho mountain torrent, then a few arcJM together, and as they float dowlggß streamlet grow like a snowball, till iSSe Rhine itself they are made into huge floating fabrics, which are carefully navigated to Dordrech and sold.. A raft ha'a often eight to ten small h«u&ss on it, and from 400 to 500 workmen, rowera and pilots. The vast pile is steered by means '■ of immense oars, and is so constructed as ; to twist like a a huge smake in the naifijja/ 11 channels. The a single raft afflj'; ; the Voya s e often realizes about I §150,000,