ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2445, 5 November 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

The King of Denmark has issued a provisional law still further restricting the amount of liberty enjoyed by the Press in that country, and rendering the' editors of newspapers responsible for everything they publish. Tho products of the fisheries of Scotland last year reached the estimated value of nearly three millions sterling, a total composed of £1,573,052 for cured fish, £827,017 for shell fish and firesh white fish, and £323,851 for salmon.

There aro said to be 5000 patent medicines of American concoction now 04 the market, and the trade amounts Bp 22,000,U00d0l per annum, Cf this, 10,000,000d018 are expended in advertising, and the net profits are set down at 5,000,000d01. Georgia is farthest south and latest settled of the thirteen original States of the American Union, and was named in honor of Goorge 11-, King of England. The first settlement within her borders ■ was nude at Savannah in 1733. During her long reign, Queen Victoria his had to appoint no fewer than twenty* ono Prime Ministers. Gold is reported to have been found in ■ the Zululand reservo near the Natal border, and a great rush of Natal people to the district nas occurred. It is said that tho coloured people of the United States maintain more secret-' and benevolent societies than any other people on the face of the globe. The smallest book in the world is in the possession of the Earl of Dufferin. It is an edition of the Bacred book of the Sikhis. and is said to be only half tjie size of a postago stamp. The Emperor of Russia has remitted to Professor Pasteur a sum equal to £4OOO as his subcription to the proposed international establishment at Paris for thtfd prevention of hydrophobia. This bringP; tho fund up to Jj600,000 francs. London loses more inhabitants every yoar by fire than either Paris or Berlin, or, indeed, than both of them put together. The loss of lifo in England and Wales averages 1490 persons yearly, ThLondon fireman save 110 lives every year It is stated that Mr Michael Davitfc Is »_ being followed through Michigan by a atenocrapher in tho .pay of the British Government, who is taking down the speeches delivered. Mr Davitt's speeches are said to have Iteen temperate, It is reported in Paris that the Em- ' press Eugonie has left tho bulk of Her large fortune to tho Princess Beatrice. The Empresß has cut off a large number of the allowances which she has been in the habit of making to her adherents in Paris.

Arccont report on tho Pacific coast canning trade shows an average annual production of upwards of 1,500,000 cases of canned goods. The pack of canned goods for the season ot 1885 consisted of upwards of 52,113,320 cans of fish, moat, fruit, and vegetables The mother of the present Emptor of Russia is said to have bequeathed a legacy w of 2,000,000 roubles to the Prince o Bulgaria, who was her favorite nephew. It is assorted that this legacy has never yet been paid, and that the Prince hag only received the interest on it. Between thirteen and fourteen thotfsand houses wore burnt down in the grpafc. fire of London, besides §ighty-nine churches. The ruins uf that conflagration covered 436 acres extending from the Tower to the Temple Church; and from the northeast gate to Holborn Bridge. v r.$J