ROUND THIS WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2039, 11 July 1885, Page 2

ROUND THIS WORLD.

Great Britain has in her navy fifty vessels capable of steaming round the world at a speed of twelve knots per hour, without re-coaling. The Ancient Order of Forestafcjtill retains its position as the largest mmdly society in the world. On the Ist January last the English order numbered 633,288 benefit and 13,971 hororaiy members.

At the Nice Exhibition thete is a Chinese clock, which is said to date back 800 years before the birth of Christ.

The income of the Melbourne Cricket Club last year was £4,000. In the year 1696, there were only four kinds of. hyacinth knowh, the ainglo and the double blue, the purple andihe velvet. At the present time there are lfLw more than four thousand varieties.

-The chaplain of the Convict Prison, Portland, who is an ordained clergyman, speaking of the trained thieves who came under his notice, says that he reasoned with a prisoner who waß in the hospitfl of the prison, and besought him to foraake the path of crime. The man listened respectfully to all that was said, but then stretched out his hand—from which he

had lest three fingers—and exclaimed, " Sir, do you think I can afford to lose the benefit of 15 years' apprenticeship f Crime was his trade, and lie. accepted punishment as a time of "depression," which was to be borne.

Two curates of the Church of England,

duty in neighboring villages in East Kent, have left their charges under extraordinary circumstances. was found in a state bordering on tremens, owing to his excessive libations of raw spirits. Tho squire of the village, discovering how matters were, sent for a doctor and a policeman. The formei prescribed for him, and the constable

watched and tended him all night, and his frequent administering of copious draughts of hot tea were successful in bringing his patient round by the morning. The clergyman then gave way to transports of grief and despair; but the squire drove him to the railway station, and saw him off by train there and then. Iji the other case the curate was found Hnadly careering round a plantation under the delusion, that he was hunting two black pigs. This clergyman has also left the village very suddenly.