ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2109, 1 October 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Turkish troops have captured eight Bulgarian insurgents, including the leader, a former Russian major, and several Russians. Fifteen were killed. Similiar bands have been dispersed. Their object is believed to have been to raise a rebellion.

A writer in the London "Times" sayß—"Mr Charles Stewart Parnell descends from 'bold Norfolk's Earl de Brotherton,' son of Edward I. and Marshall of England, as well as from Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, whom Bolingbroke challenged to mortal combat, and whom Richard 11. banished for life. Another of Mr Parnell's ancestors is John Howard, the 'Jockey of Norfolk,' first of the actual line of the Dukes of Norfolk, who was slain at Boasvorfch, and duly attainted -by the victorious party," The late Mr. Sheehan used to tell two capital stories of the unemployed, He said he was present at an Auckland meeting when the unemployed gathered in force, and he heard their wrongs dilated on at length by a clever speaker. To his own knowledge the spouting gentleman had at the time £1,200 out on mortgage, as he (Mr Sheehan) had drawn the deed. Down South at a similar gathering each man that addressed the audience told his troubles, but the palm was secured by a gentleman who said he had worked three months for his bare tucker. This produced many cries of shame and mild sensation, which was, however, considerably toned down when one of the crowd who could not shine as a speaker ejaculated, "hadn't you better tell how you were serving the Queen on that occasion the bare tucker man having been in Addington gaol. The Melbourne Herald said:—Wliich minister receives the largest. stipend in Melbourne has often been the cause of much discussion, The Rev. D. Jones ■Hamer, of the Collins-street Independent Church, gets £I4OO per annum, which

tops the list. The minister of the Scots Church receives £IOOO. The Rev. 0, Strong, while pastor, was, however, in receipt of £I2OO yearly. • The Bishop of Melbourne's salary is £IOOO per annum, and the minister of the ToordftQliurch raceives £BOO. The .same is received by other ministers of tlie Presbyterian denomination. The standard in this denomination is fixed at £3OO per annum. The ministers of the Chufediof England and \Ve3leyan . are by far the worst paid among'tho "black cloths, 1 ' £2OO being considered a splendid salary among them. The C'ongregationalists pay all their ministers handsomely, and £4OO a year is a common salary among thorn, "An Irishman entered the court in New York, and walking upjm > judge on the Bench said'" Joodgepuie watherpipe at the hydrant beyant me house has burslit; and it has flooded me cellar and it's drowning me hins. Me name is M'Carthy, joodge." The judge sympathised with him arid "said he was sorry for the damp life his hins were havin?, but told him lie would have to go to the Board of Public Works and complain. M'Carthy went: away, but the next morning he came back to the judge and told the same story. about the " wather" and his " hins,." when the judge said, "I told you to go to the Board of Public Works .and tell the story." "And 1 did" said M'Carthy. "And what did they say ?" M'Carthy looked indignant and said "The mail ed me, 'M'Carthy' said he,, ' why lJAundor don't you kape ducks ?'"

■ The private in the 19th Hussars, whose letters from Egypt are published in the new number of the Nineteenth Century, gives Borne interesting information about General Earle's death. He was killed after the whole of the enemy's position had been taken, because he insked, against warnings, in "poking iMfiead into a mud hut" in which some '*' labels" were secreted"The man who shot him was brought out of the house by Major Slade, and was instantly cut into a hundred pieces. There was another house found, with a horse and camel, and inside were twenty-six men and their store of ammunition, and the whole lot were burnt alive in the house and blown to atoms by the continued exploding of ammunition; the horse and camel were also burnt to a cinder." General Earle was a brave man, and deserves all credit, wliich is more than can be said for his " avengers," Barnum's large Asiatic elephant, Albert, who lately killed Keeper James Sweeney, at Nashua, America, was taken to a ravine in the suburbs and killed. He was chained to four large trees, and the location of his heart and brain maiikd with chalk. Thirty-three membe®)f the Keene Light Guard were then nwshalled in line at fifteen paces, and at the word " fire" the same number of bullets penetrated the vital spots, Tho huge, beast fell dead without a strugglo. Albert was thirty years old, and had been used as a performing elephant until the last .three months, when he had shown siftji temper that he was withdrawn : from tliS?rained herd. He was valued .it about £2OOO. The lemains have beon presented to the Smithsonian Institution, -Washington.

Artemus Ward once" wondered" what the wages of the Governor General amounted to. If any our readers are anxious to know what emolument a Minister of the Crown in England receives, the following list of the Salisbury Ministry, with the salary oach is in receipt of, will be highly interesting Lord Salisbury, LSOOO ; Lord Iddesleigh , (Sir S. Nortiicote) L 5000; Lord Halsbury (SirH, Giffard, Lord Chancellor), £10,000; Mr Gibson (Lord Chancellor of Ireland), L 8000; Lord Carnarvon (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), L 20,000; Lord Cranbrook, L2OOO ; Lord Harrowby, SMM; Sir Michael Hicks Beach, LSOOO; Splichard Cross, L 5000; Col. Stanley, LSUOO; .Lord Randolph Churchill, L 5000; Mr W. H. Smith, L 5000; Lord George Hamilton, L 4500 ; Lord John Manners, L 2500; Duke of Richmond, £2OOO j; Mr Stanhopo, L 2000; Mr Balfour, L 2000; Mr Chaplin, L2OOO ; Sir > William Hart JDyko, L 4425 ; MrSfetot, L2OOO ; Lord Beaucliamp, 'impl'd ; Sir Henry Holland, L2OOO ; Mr Akers Douglas, L2OOO ; Mr C. Dalrymple, L 1000; Mr Sidney Herbert,'Llooo; Colonel Walrond, L 1000; Mr Robert Bourke, L 1500; Lord Cadogan, L 1500; Lord Donoughmore, L 1200; Lord Harris; L 1500; Mr Ritchie, L 2000; Baron de Worms, L 1500; Mr Aslunead Bartlett, L 1000; Earl of Lathora, L2OOO ; Lord Lewisham, L 924; Lord cumbe, L 2000; Earl of Bradford, L 2600; Lord Waterford, L 1500; Lord Folkestone, L 904; Lord Arthur Hill, L 904, This is the completed Ministry, with the exception of the Law officers for England, Scotland, and Ireland,