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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2437, 28 October 1886, Page 2

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The Poiiiiisuliir ami Oriental SWw''' Navigation Company have given Mesna Cairo and Co., ahijibuiidiit-s, Grcomwk, • an order to build a scrim 1 steamer of about 7000 tons, and pr<i|>oitioiialo ingiiib power, being by far tho latest over built mid launched at Greenock. In August four cromatoiieqweri!opened in Peru la Chaise, Paris. A co-operative farm for trainps lias been established by a New York plnlanthro< pist. . ■ The first half of the current yoar allowed '' a decrease in the death rate of New York as compared with last year. ; ' A mimbevof stamps for the Government of Tonga are being printed by tho New Zealand Stamp Department, , Queensland's little' liquorbill' amounts to 110 less than £1,700,009 or au average of £slos per head of tho population. A .company, with a capital of L 1,000,000, is about to bo floated in London for tho purpose of carrying out,a selfsupporting scheme of emigration,. : A Bombay physician asserts'.that a gradual increase in the size of the among the natives of India is taki* place, which change he ascribes to the, : effect of civilization. . English Railway Companies have successful co-operative baul s of their own. In one single Company tho employees have depositee 1 over L 227.000, a remarkable illustration of thrift. lnoneweok there wore imported 91 cases and casks of wine from Sydney and other Australian ports to: Great;-; Britain. This trade is developing, but it f js hard to understand how it is that the ■* Capo can sell a fair wine iitthe.cxhibition ' at 3d a glass, when the cheapest' Australian is (id. . • ' ' _ Sir William Armstrong and Co, havo just obtained ii very large contract for the supply of their guns to the Chinese Government. They are wanted for the new fortification of Formosa,' Country postmen in France will shortly be mounted on tricycles. The post'office is considering a medal which can be used by woak or crippled postmen, as many of these officials are invalided soldiers Gorman exports say that Schleimann's excavations in Greece havo revealed a wealth of material for designers in woolly, goods. Tho ancient patterns reprodu(3g[ m modern fabrics wouldhavea charming" effect. Tho heart of the late Kiiijj Louis of Bavaria, enclosed iu a costly silver urn, • was deposited ou August 23rd at Nouotting, whoro the hearts of all tho recent Kings of that country are preserved. The requiem waa attended by thousands qf spectators, including 201) priests aud many officials. Tlie oity of Oakland, U.S., has passod I an ordinance making it a misdemeanor ■■ for boys under lli years of age to smoke iu any public placo, and another ordiuanco or resolution, requiring that ovoty young person under tho a< r e pf 10 years shall-' go straight home and keep within doors • after 9 o'clock.

English trade, according to the latest reports, appears to bo in a fail' way to improve. Every report from" all the industrial centres confirms this View. Tim. iron and wool trades, two staple industries of tho country, show signs of greater activity. Tho quarterly return of thuexports to tho United States from .within the district of tho American consul at SholMd allows that the oxpoii'of cutlery during the quarter ending June 30 was W5,00m. as against L 27.000 in thuc.ciirrcspwidiiP* quartor of last year, while the' oxpmts of steel were L 04.000 as against L 55.000 last year. A return issued .on August 19 will serve ■ to recall Borne qf the pensions paid to prominorit public men'- in ICnghmd. Mr Cliilders, while out of office, draws M 133 (Is, which would be L 2.000 but that he. draws the balance from one of tho Australian Colonies, Lord lddenleigh, being, .in office, has ceased to draw his nenson of L2OOO. . •• Tho late House of Commons contained two mavquisacs, two tails, lO vitcounts, 15 lords, and 33 hoiiorables, By tho retirement of tho Marquis of Stafford and the elevation of Lord Richard Grosvenor to the peerage, the marquisscs have now fallen to one and the lords to 14, In tho present house there are only 110 members bearing titles, hereditary or inherited, - On the . British railways tho total number of passenger journeys, .'exclusive of journeys by reason ticket holders, was 697,213,021 for the year 1885, or 2,221,171 moro than mthe previous year. The proportions of the passengers killed and injured were in round numbers 1 in w 6,8!!5,421 killed, and 1 in 617,599 in-jgjf jured. In 1884 the .proportions were $ in 5,148,088 killed, and 1 in 466,124 injured. ' . v In connection with'the ftgrth-Eaateri} Railway in Great Britaiu the for compensation was in £60,000. During the past six years the ayurage amount paid was only £s3oo a year, and for the last half-year only/ £2366,_ or under £6OOO a year/; This result is stated t<i be due to the institutioti of the block system, and the use of 1 the Weßtinqhouae brake,