ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2456, 19 November 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Oyer three and a half million people have visited the Colonial and Indian Exhibition.

A " ehiu-wagsjer" is the elegant term üßcd across the Atlantic to describe agoasipin? person. In London, daring the first week of September, the thermometer regintered Oldegs in tho Bhade, aßd 140 in the sun,

A Russian " professor," now in England, is at proaout offering £25 reward for a flea which Ims strayed or been stolen from his collection.

The loss ot propery through the earthonake at Charleston is estimated at £1,600,000.. Fifty persons were killed and over a hundred injured. The latest novelty in tho way of London vehicles is a throe-wheeled oab, This new " three-wheeler" has passed the police inspection, and is now a dulylicensed hackney carriage, and wo may oxpoet to sen it in tho streets in a vary short timo. The advantage claimed for this novel conveyance are room, comfort, and convenience. Ladies, too, will be able to use the cab without fear of soiling their dresses when alighting. No particulars aro given as to tho shapo and construction of this new carriage, and ono wonders what it will be like.

A movement is on foot by the mombers of the National Thrift Society to orcct a Thrift Hall, as a memorial to the late President of the Society, Mr Samuel M,orley. The Marquis of Huntly, on bohalf of the Gordon family, has handed over to the community of Aberdeen a statue of Gordon. The monumeut will be erected in front of the Sohool of Art.

The bank clerks of London propose to present to Sir John Lubbock some striking mark of their gratitude for obtaining for them the boon of a two o'clook closing on Saturday afternoon, A Socialist named Belderok has been sentenced by the Grimiual Court of Amsterdam to one year's imprisonment for publishing a placard grossly insulting the King,

It is a most ouriouß (says the Herald of Health) that there has been', nearly twice as much so-oalled hydrophobia in France singe Pasteup camo into the field with his reraady than before. The leading Australasian timber exporters are New Zealand and Western Australia, who last year exported £152,000 and £104.000 respectively, Now South Wales coming next with £IOO,OOO. A new American church in the Avontie do l'Alma, Paris, was opened on September 12 iu the presence of a large congregation. The church has been built by the subscriptions of American visitors to Paris. '

Women's colleges at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have thriven more this year than at any previous period, and the increasing number of students has oreated a necessity for greater accommodation,

The shipbuilding trade on the Clyde continues to show an increasing depression, and the output for the month of August is the smallest oh record during any corresponding month for at least Bixteen years back.

_ The salaries of the male school teachers in Victoria are to ba increased, but not those of ; the females. The supply of che latter commodity is in excess of the demand—so says the unchivalrous Victorian Minister of Education.

Captain Smith, of the ship Flora P. Stafford, that arrived at Burrard Inlet from Yokomahana, reports that Chinese pirates are again attempting to capture British and American ships, and that he was chased for soveral days., A national exhibition of'fine arts-tfill be held in Vonioo in April, 1887, under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen of Italy, for which extraordinary preparations ate being made. English artists Maiding in Italy can exhibit, Tho Parliamentary rotnm of the eoit

... .', ~ : '* r \ ■' of the poliiw in the Uiwughfi of Great Britain hiu just been issued: -The total coat of the police in the Metropolian district, which 4,710,000 itih&bitautsV i»' £1,376,693, or 4s lid p^ijiWhitant;:':' The 'spot where' met his death in tlie fikew^te^^jji,"'' .now big'/ffj^a^^iv : ' thickly hung with wreaths of jmm<ft/M; 1 .and laurels. The.lat.e king's: motttsYlitf' . tends to erect a chapel rauied'on p4&,t&i : ' ..■'•'' the spot. '• ';!''.'•., •M'H; ::' A suggestion has lately been made that the question of coal for ocean steamera-- ' klie substitution of. petroleum for.'coal— ' be solved by freezing the petroleum, using it in tho form of bricks, when.it could bo packed as sofely sis coal, ..and, it Is urged, even more so. •' .: , M. liortillqu, in the course of a lecture ■ t delivered at the Hygienic- Exhibition in • Pans, stated that out of every thousand ' inhabitants of Paris; only 360 are natives of tho oity, 565 belonging to the depart-' ments of Fianoe or tho Oolonio's,' and ■ 75 being foreigners.. -. .•> One of the Australian- visitors #s■•'• present in London, who, from his position, should be ablo to .speak, viiflr, authority, jays that since tho. OolonjaF' Exhibition has boon opened, it bis, been, attended by at least three: .thbusanrf. . who have come, all thowayfroffl!. '•■ the Antipodes for thatpurpose. ' v s ■' A woman, who is Baia to be a daughter of King George IV,, has-just applied fpjf . outdoor relief* from one' of the Motropoft'' tan Board of Guardians. She gave, hot ' name as Caroline Guelph, and saidl she ':'■ was born in 1816 at Vienna. Shohadnb-. means of livelihood, but doolined to $: into the house. : • :-?:\ Mr H. 0. Haw, of Harlem,New-&fkf' fondly shows the workof twenty yearfhv 8000 buttons, collected from every; quarter of the globe,. The work began in a wager. 1 in Portland directly after the war, when. Tj people believed there wore not more than 990 different kinde of buttotia iu the: world. " '

In consequence of the numerous discus: sions which have arisen on tho. subjects the Pope has appointed a special Corn'. - mission of Cardinals to exaraino the quea* - fcion of _ divorce' in different; countries^j with a view to forwarding suitable instruc-'' tions on tho point to all Bishops of 'the Catholic Church. ' ;:.■.'

A Paris jowoller has lately been sen*' tencodtosix months imprisonment for bleaching yollow Cape diamonds white and selling them as pure white diamonds.'.' Pearls, on the contrary, have been msflk black by dipping them in uitrate'of siivelr

A packet of bread, a hundred years .- old has boon discovered at Hungiry. . ' Mr Gladstone iB, through his wife, a landowner, his rent-roll touching close upon £SOOO a year. A procession of butterflies,, which/took • hours to pass, iB reported to have.been Been at Salzburg recently. The annual production: machines allows one for every three,-Hun- | dredoivilißed^peopla6n"tba glebed ~' V .. ' There is a Welch minuter!whUhaaioafc"" both bii armß, and who % the .pulpit; uses his tongue to turn ovor the leaves of the bible. According to the- Japan papers .'{s'*"'. total number of cases of cholera' through;') ; out Japan this year has been. 59,000, ■•'••• 37,000 being fatal.' <■;■;.-><■''<■>•■; The British War Office have deoided ; to' '••'■ conduct a series of experiments conneo-.. ted with tho use of balloons as adjuncts ■' to au array, and more, especially, with •, reference to their utility in observing tho '•■•■. result of the firo of the artillery on the v ■•" enemy's position or forces.' The Engipeerß, who have a compact litter' ; - balfooning.corps, aro in charge of the ex- ■. perunenta.' ■ ■ i"'

Tho Times of India lately gave: an ac-' count of the opening of'the Oama Hospital (offioered entirely by woraeb) by,- hi». ; Excellency Lord Eeay, Governor .of Bombay, in his prosenco. of avery large assembly of friends, on July 30. Tho foundation stone of the hospital hid been laid hi November, 1883, by His Boyal Highness the Duko of Connaught. It is estimated that no less than 60,000 children will be thrown out of employment by the operation of tho new factory law in the State of New York. Ho minor under 18 years of age. and no woman under 20, may now be employed in any munntacturing establishment for more than CO hours a weok, and'the Act excludes employment in such establishments of all children uoder 13.

Tho railway companies of Great Britain pay £I3OO a day for injuries' done, through their culpable neglect, to passengers or merchandise,

SPECIAL BANK HOLIDAY. \, PURSUANT to the "Banta-im* Banker's Act, 1880," and the ' 'Banks and Bankers Act Amendment Act, 1882," notice is hereby civon that THURSDAY, the Mday.of November, 1886, being the Mastorton Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Annual Shoff Day, will be observed as a Special Bank Holiday in MASTER-TON, by the undermentioned Banks. The Bank of New Zealand. > D.L. MURDOCH,, General Manager. The Bank of Now South Wales. < : W. G. RHIND, Inspector.;

The Bank of Australasia. JOHN SA WEBS, Aoting Inßpeotor.