ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2457, 20 November 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

The Japanese Government are now arranging fco place very large ordors in England for the ongiues, rails, bridges and plantrequired forthe railway develop-, menfc which they have decided to exooute■ immediately. The Madrid papers report that the Court shoemaker has been ordered to mako his first pair of shoes for the infant King of Spam. They are to be of white leather, embroidered with gold; and according to ancient usage there will, be a special ceremonial on the occasion of the King putting on his shoes for tho first time.

The deepest English lake in Waßtwator, Cumberland. If is 270 ft in its deepest part, and oii account of this great depth it has never been known to be iced over, even in tho severest winter. This lake is three and a half miles in length, and about half-a-mile broad. Its height above the sea is 204ffc,

September 4 wbb the natal day of Nasr-cd-Din, K.G., Shah of Persia, who visited London in 1873, The Shah was horn on September 4, 1829. He has nearly completed the thirty-eighth year of his reign, having asconded the throne on September 10, 1848, which for an Oriental sovereign is a noteworthy fact, A notification has been published in the London Gazette to the -effect that marriages must not be celebrated between

French and English people without a certificate from a French consul that his countryman or countrywoman has fulfilled the obligations of the French law, without which no marriage is held binding in France.

An adventurous Frenchman named Do

Wogan, has been wandering about the seaß and rivers of Euiope during the past, two years in a paper boat of his own construction. The fragile craft has borno its owner over 6000 miles-through the Channel, by the coast, into creeks, and up rivers. This novel piece of naval architecture is shaped like a canoe, and is 16ft long, and 2jft in width. A woman named Robinson, who was recentlg arrested at Somerville, Massachusetts, for poisoning her son, is now suspected of having murdered 100 persons by the same means during the last four years. Many of them are stated to have met their death by poisoned eatableß, of which they partook at a church festival. In consoquence of the suggestion having been made to the Russian Government of the advisability of removing the town of Merv to a more favorable site, the further erection of houses on the site of the present town has been suspended until the question shall have been decided. In its present position the place is subject to frequent inundation. There are about 65 acreß of land in hop gardens in England, which are estimated to produce about 10001b of hopa per acre, or a total of 65.000,0001b.. A large congregation is said to have listened attentively to a sermon delivered lately at St Martin's, N.8./by J. E, Pell, a twelve-year-old son of* a Baptist preacher. Nearly three million totiß of coal (2,878,863), of the value of £1,340,112, were raised by 7097 men from 54 mines in the Colony of New South last year, the highest amount on record. From King Theebaw's palace at Mandalay, a magnificent collection of jewollery and plate has been sent to England by the \iceroy, and it has been lent to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition by the Secretary of State for India.

The principle article of Bale in Loudon's leading, thoroughfares now is a medallion, about the.Bize of a threepenny piece, upon which 13 neatly engraved a copy of the Lord'fl Prayer. This is sold extensively for the sura of ono penny. A writer in Lend a Band, an English paper, makes the iollqwjnp computation: -" One fly March 20 is represented by3ooon April;24;'by 300times300, equalling 90,000, on May 28; by 27,000,000 .on,: July 2, and by 8,100,000,000 on August 8." ■ Sir Charles Dilke, registered aa "J. C. Tatlow," and the Earl of Kingston, have left Winnipeg, over the Canadian Pacific railway for British Columbia. After two weeks hunting and fishing the;. will take steamer from San Fransciy'jo for Australia. A.horrible religious sect has b/ d9n established in Russia, The chief j pc . trine held is that it is a sin to let men sutler bodily pain, on whioh acoouQ-'f, people belonging to the organisation strangled. Forfcy-two membetf, 0 f tne ; Society have been arrested. ' The notorious Geronimo and his band of hostile Apaohes. after bavin g be en on the war path in Arizona, Tj,s, over ft year, were starved into on Sept 4, and surrendered to Captain Lawton's troops. While thefie savages were "out" they murdered, wore than.. iQQ

whito people, while not ten of their own number were killed. • .yMrttion of all sanitary • pnncip]es,.mijpi)le':nbvertffttie extreme rigour if wintuiiy-neglect'M: drttifotf j m'lKr'pria. icipal Wason's.whyiout- of 10|& children born in'RuSsU;"iteftK!aly 4235&i1l tusit, k thelr-twentwth bfrlSay. Sta'tMes* show flhat 845 out of eaohlOOO.die first fiveyears. seeking;means toflimii&li' tbji'> MIWul ■infant mortality! :.■?'■ •.,-■•■••; : The English parcer-pdst seems tb'.oeimprovinEtby leaps, and'bounds. It was only Btarted three years, ago;'and the numberi ;of>parcels carried during the first year w«A fifteen millions. Last year the number? was doubled, being thirty millions, oran increase of 100 per cent. In London alone 700 men are.,employed in the parcels' department of'the Post-office. The Corporation of the City of Loudon, says the City Press, has, during the last century, expended'an public improvement* no less a *ura. than £IO,OOQjpOO. A number, of open spaces, within glbasfc few years, notably Eppinp ForeWlnd Burnham Beeches, have been acquired at '■< a cost of over £300,000; while on artisans' dwollings more tban:£ioo,ooo have been spent since 1861., * America now makes one-fifth l of the ironaud•one-fourihof, the.stoel of tho world, and .is second:.only to Great Britain. In steel America will probably lead the world in M). .This country already leads, .fcho -vfbrld" in Bessemor steeTjvin 1860 it mad.e.bnly 40.000 tons; in 1882J curious: : oubW in • lreland.V'-Th^tenant'takes aiiease', not '' for his own lifetime, but for the' lifetime of somebody elso-perhapa a neighborfct son, tho Prince of Wales, the Pope, ancf so on. The Prince of Wales is the favorite. On tho death of thisdisinterostcd : third person the lease expires. 1 As an exporting country of manufac- ' tures, America is losing ground. With the exception of cotton manufactures, the official returns show a gradual reduction \ of the exports. The export trade for the ) fiscal year ending June 30 will show a shrinkage of over fiS.OOO.OOOdoIs, and an increase m imporjtaof 65,000,000d01a. Thirteen thousandthree hundred and ! forty-one tons of fish were delivered at the London Billingsgate market in July, and over 121 tons Were seized as unfit for human food. '■"' k*