ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2048, 22 July 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

It having been asserted that Volunteering costs the country £3 per head, the idea is contested by the "Volunteer Service Review." The annual cost of the Volunteers was stated at £006,000, bu| from this it is urged that the £l3O, QQi) paid to the adjutants and the permanent staff should bo deducted., The adjutants aro liable to be j culled rniw at any moment. .to serve with tlHr regular regiments, and as sergeant-instructors. are now appointed exclusively from men , who have a portion of their army- engage-. ' ment still to serve, they, also, are. liable, to be called away. Thus, it ia. arguedi, have £476,000. for the' p| 212,000 Volunteers, or ?ost of £2 6s per |eas. But, Spaing the cost wa'a per head, can anyone begrudge our possession of a«ch an excellent army at so very modorato an annual expenditure On the fate of Nihilists, Hartmann, tho JSihiliafc, states that out of 3000 men and women personally known to himself among the many thousands who were en* rolled in the ranks of the Russian conspirators, between 187G and 1878, nearly all have been killed, or sentenced to hard labor in the mines of Siberia.' He knows of only two who are still at large, Speak, ing of the hopes and plans «f he says-" They anything through 9 ip- with England or any Power-. In th® first place, a war will overthrow tha • fraanoial credit of the Russian Government, and it would become'' ''bankrupt. There would be .universal ■ discontent, andabsolutism would begcsrfchrQwn, not simply by a small clasjPfflt bv 'tjui : people themselves. Tfot Is mail; wmijf ;be silly to kill the Cauf at.' present.' Hii ' will jsl '' ' ' V ' An international affair, the claims of Russia were concerned, has just been decided in their, favor at Bordeaux. Kahoftof Is amere trunk of a man, without arms or logs, who earns a living •at fares by executing wonderful feats with the - remnants of his limbs, and. who advertises himself on that account as the "Artist Trunk." The other day a rival trijfnk, appeared on the Bcejs, apd gave hiinielf. out as se, ".Trfte ; Russians'regarded this, as an 'aggression.''-High words ensued, ans aij, outbreak seemed imminent. Bis < view, one must suppose, of t|e djffiw.ltj! the combatants would, (laye in geV-. ting a( each dispute was ulti-,, niat'ely Emitted to. tlie arbitration of ■ the Consular Judges. Each party ftrguetl .! the other was the aggressor, Kobelkof urged that he had been first in the field, V and had shown the way to subdue the ■ diffioultjep ftf the situation, and to turn them to his advantage, Bjiival denied that the Russian had any Jft to oxclude - the rest of. the world, or to jjrevoilt other '' trunks" coming to the foro. It is reas- ; surin? to know (says the M Mall Gazette) that the Court, recognising that ■ tho "rival trunks" will iQ shoulder to shoulder, has .in finding a modw theii^' The Earl Gaknajrj arrived iii cards with Archer, tho joclfoy, and Cuptiw .■ Bowling, the latter's frien'd, window of the Stereoscopic Company, How pleased tho late Earl would have • been to see it I Hi? present lordship is ■ reported tp hw told, a friend that what finally persuaded him to break with Miss waii an intimation from tha Queen-that even as Lady Garmoyle that young-person could never be presented' L or received at Court, as she had " danced, on the stage," (toe of : the San Francisco papers has been investigating the. mining statistics of, California, Nevada, and the neighboring' ; -. , territories, and finds that are eighty - : mines; tie shareholders oWShich havo : • :: 'paid £6,500,000 in the shape of eaUa, >.... and have never received a single dividend,, < v ind-sre never likely to do so. Altogether, -■ thereat 203 mines in operation, and of- ; these 1?0 have already called up capital. to .the Extent of ■ .J814,756,0QQ witjipjfij;■ yielding a dollar in return; and thermal#': 1 *23 which haye paid the jhareho|des;. h £22,400,000 over and above%)o amount in oalli, . V. ■ ' !j