ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2436, 27 October 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Tjjlie number ot personi m Scotland who were employed In eoun«cttau with the sea fisheries last year and dependent on them was 102,134. The number of fisliiiu; boats and vessels engaged was 15,532

A district of 3000 in Queensland drank 2416 gallons of proof spirit* in mx months.

A despatch from Port Moody, British Columbia, states that tie inhabitants of Juneau City and Dooglas Islands. ''-h. have ex {Milled 75 Chinamen, ami shipped tbem to Fort WrangeL - Last year, there wore 5179 licensed public houses in New South Wjik, The number of Colonial wine hinucKi 395. There were 316 licensed spirit inowfantj in the colony, and 78 brewer*. Throughout France then is a determined opposition to the employment of toragn laborer*. The city authorities at Pans have actually forbidden tha **ttractors for public works to hire any foreigner*. Mr W. Abraham, M.P. for &# Rliondda Valley Division, made the usual declaration as to his at the recent general election. They to the unprecedentedly small mm of L 7„ tliis being the amount of the returning officer's fee.

The Tartan are supposed to have, as a. nation, the most powerful voices in the world, while the Germans possess theloudest voioes of any civilised people. The voioes of both Chinese and Tipinnscn are uf veiy low bower and feeble compass: and arc probably weaker than any nation. " Ulicumatism and sciatica are iti Paris by the blood bsth remedy. The< patient is taken to the iu an empty bath into which jfflFwuoS *! from slaughtered animals is conducted, coagulation takes place, and the patient leaves the solid mass, and ii ba&ed in water. An irritating sensation sets In ' afterwards.

Upon unloading a British which arrived, at Philadelphia recently, it was found that about "Uc-half the ~y of 2300 tons of «ugar vac a fl'iid .».« syrup instead of sugar iu a* iyH been shipped from India. The sugarhad been meliad by heat, and the syou»_"~" was Bft deep in this hold of the TrmifJ. which had ouine through the Suez fl-n.l A strike of 15,000 women recently took place at Troy in the State of New York. The final cause was the demand of 250° ' young women employed by one establishment for an increase In *l»ir already liberal rate of wages, which was refused. The two months' strike cost the employees! considerably over £200.000 The result was a victory for the employers. Visitors to the Island of report that Casatnioci-'la, which was .destroyed by a memorable earthquake, !"■ now: been su far rebuilt that bathing, at the hot springs has been allowed lie authorities to be resumed, houses" have been erected in the immediate neighborhood of the springs—thatis, houses which, it is hoped, will from their ooustructiua, escape mischief from an earthquake. A shocking crime was itttd m Paris on August 16. An imbecile wifow, named Leboi, whose aons endearoswd to obtain admission for her into a madhouse, but failed, was tied to a stake sons, who built a fire ntund her Jnd burned her to death. While the woman was suffering her aons sprinkled holy crater over her, and when arrested said they had burned their mother because of religious motives. One Mr James Glover has been cm. ducting a series of experiments upoa »■» administration of criminal justice in England. He began some years ago by stealing a goose, for which he found til* sentence was seven yeais' pens} eerritude. On regaiuing his liberty he stola. two geese, and got four months" nr«. prisonmeut. At the earliest subseque j* opportunitv h<> siole a duck, ana »Jm result of tlie experiment was foar4>eea days hard labour. * '-- A Lockpurt man is figuring on a scjjswie for building a boat for r»«»m jKiflii through the rapids of the XijgiATljrir . His boat is to be something after the style of a catamaran, 90ft long and 2lft. -wide, with a capacity for two hundred ftosseu- i~ >5 gen. _A Company has been formed, with a capital of IOO.OQOdoIs to posh the "ji?" scheme. ~lt is pzuptmed tn carry the boat J '" back to the sbutiug point by .* , . During the first week in Augustaat<n% broke over Pari*, which did mischief at ><sent-*ur-Msiae. For twenty minutes the hail fell with rHr • « force that all the windows in the place- * were smashed and ereu the woodmk suffered. At Rheims the losses inemi are estimated at no less than £BO,OOO. ' Newcastle, England, is actively preparing an International and Colonial Kxhibi- t ' turn of inventions and appliances used ia mining and mechanical, f other industries with their products, to be opened on Her Majesty's birthday, M», . « 24th, 1887,. in coaunemration of %' jubilee of the Queen's reign. Long ago thero uied to lie wiM| England a pieoe of gold mooey which w*. ''*> called an " angeL" Its value was Hit *' 6sßdtolos; it derived its canonsbm» * from the fact lsiat on, <pe aide it hem *. flrsign of theAtomnwl Michael ■» the dragon. Angshwete coined ia||to the timeof Cromwell. ,' -V' s'The meaner rihwhkh "ahnJiyT Yankees are pushed ,ia Lbbdoo and.die high fsvorwliicfc tbejr «m Marlboroogh Hoose. themes far the .« -■rtsf- iffti . Ainerinsn press. X3t* too loypsl obefrrsp that the reeeSfc London" ess sn n «'w£: worked far all ffc. J wm worth as a * ,f.'j certain. Hew YommC"" ' ,r «I * '"i-i