ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2149, 19 November 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Truth gives the following cricket anecdote: Mr Hornby takes his County team at the end of each year to play a local eighteen' of Nantwith and district, and four years ago, at the tail end of, that team, came a veritable yokel. The first ball he received one of Grassland's fast yorkers, which hit him on the knee. "How's that?" shouted both Pilling .and Grassland. "Not out I"said the umpire. The hatsman, however, carefully shouldered his bat, and was seen to be painfully limping for the pavillion. " You're not out, my man," said the umpire, "No," he said; "but I'm going," : Roman society has been a good deal scandalised by some very ugly transactions which have been brought to light iu connection with the gambling affairs of people in high life. A few. months'ago the Brazilian Minister at the Court of King Humbert was caught cheating at baccarat, aiid advised to leave Rome within forty days by the President of tho club at which it took place, The diplomatist declined to do so, Then his namo was dropped out of tho invitations to the Royal dinner, table, and Baron yon Kendell, the German ambassador, bluntly told him, " You are socially damned." The Brazilian Government having been informed of his dishonesty, he was'recalled. Since then two young noblepien attached to the Vatican Court, Marchese Pacca and Conte Vinci, havo gon'e wrong. They not merely cheated at cards, but forged and swindled, and then levanted. It is said that there are 50,000 young men bearing titles in Italy who are too proud to work, while some of them are poor enough to steal.