ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2462, 27 November 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

A marble bust of Robert BurM,'%Mr D. W. Stevenson, Edinburgh, the Ipjbf Mr Andrew Cariiegie, of New York, : ; ltfeß been unveiled in the haH of the Naiiffi ■ Wallace Monument, Abbey Craig,' ; W T lngl . " The Endinburgh Exhibition has a financial success. The averago' up till recently have beeu £430 a'diy, • and the exhibitors pay £12,000 for, space and the sale of season tickets has pro* dunod £15,000.

AfcGravesend, John Henry Benjamin, a private in the Grenadier Guavda, • stationed at Caterham, was committedAr trial on a charge of abducting AdaMfs|: aged 17 years, from;:o\it .of the custody and against the wish-of her mother. ■ Advices aie to hand by last mail that. the second consliiijijent of English machinery for the fjotth-;New -Zealand, Woollen Company,'' 'was' shipped 'from " London on the Ist $ October last, and may be eipeoted liereb/'thg early ;part •f Jannary, The ninth annual congress of the. Safiii* •. tary Institute at Gre'at Britain wu opened at York on September '22; *hei Sir Spencer Wells delivered an interesting address, reviewing 'the progress' ot sanitary science during., the last 1 halfcentury. In the minutes of the Wesleyan Con." ference just published, leave is given to' dispose of the Centenary Hall in Bishop-, gate-street, should they meet with' a suitable offer. Some years since • they . refused £120,000 for the building and site. TyndalPs theory that the sky is blue becauße of particles of dust in the air is now accepted by Dr R, von Heimholta. A new discoveiy in illumination is reported from England, It is a gaß jet surrounded by a glass vessel containing water. The latter so operates On' the light that its brilliancy is magnified threefold. At a recent meeting, of the Royal Mlcrosoopical Society, London, Bell, at the request of the Presidalv gave an account of' what he regarded at) the most extraordinary biological'fact brought to light during the last: twenty- . five years—the existence of a third eye' at the _ top of the head of certain lizards. During the recent volcanio eruptions of Mount Etna certain atmospheric phenomena were observed at Paermo" simllar to the sun-glows which followed £ a mow violent eruptions of Kra- 7 katoa in 1888, . their less brilliant ' character being due to the smaller quantities of vapour and other jnatter diacharged by Etna. Responding to the toaat of the-Navy ,at & banquet given by the 11017. Mayor of Melbourne, Admiral Tryon said: With refcrenoe to the navy at largo, there was only one navy-thn navy of our country, .(Enthusiastic applause.) In some quarters ift sort of idea prevailed, and it.once pre- • vailed more generally—that sailors vrota a caroless sort of fellows. They were also reflecting mon. No body of .men more appreciated the greatness of thoJntereste of tho Empire, or its vast distances, or .JiSr constant springing up of new cities andjf;' now interests that required protection. The time had arrived when more; should ■ be dono in these groat eolonios.to holp the mother country in her huge task,-. > Ther» were those who thought tlie days -of war had passed, but as long as violence was exercised on the side of tyranny and-wrong .' so long would violonco be appealed to in support of freedom and right. (Cheers.) That was war, put it how they, would,-' ' Besides, however much they ,ipighfc ',4j desire peace, facts were strong against • " it, Civilised Europe was armed to the teeth, It was not armed for peaceful purposes. Some poople desired to do right—to-morrow. Would to-morrow ' come I Since 1700, over 107 instances had occurred in which hostilities had began before the declaration of war. On July 11, 1870, Lord Granville, our Foreign Minister, was assured that the' ' political horizon was without a cloud;. and eight days afterwards, two of the greatest and what were called most civil-' izednations of Europe wero at eaoh other's throats. In war those resources had to be used that were carefully prepared in ' time of peace, After war had begun therfe; Was no timo to collect new armaments <jpr forces, A country must be prepared/ tt was seen in 1880 that the country that was'not prepared suffered a great disaster, An underground railway for New York is no longer a question of doubt, since the aerial lines are not sufficient. It 1b probable, however, that olectric power will be nsed on it; ind sevoral detailed plans have-been made out for the working of the floheme; Amony those is a tric locomotive which has actually been constructed by tho Rhode Island Locomotive Works, for the designs of Messrs E. M. Bentley and W. G. Knight. Tho guage is that of ordinary locomotives, six wheels being employed, eaoh of GBin. » Two eleotrio motors are coupled A togother, and give a joint power 0! /'\ 500,000 watts, or about 070 horse-power, j The armaturesof the motor* are 3ft in/ diameter, and act directly on the axles' without intermediate gearing. The loco-1 motivo is provided with eleotrio head- 5 lights, bells, and tubular brakoi, worked automatically by eloctrioity. The train is to be lighted by incandescent lamps, and fitted with electric brakes to every carriage. The powor can be conveyed from the generatiug station either by! a central conductor insulated in tho air ( ortjk by an underground: one. The conveni" onces of electricity lor underground railways are too numerous to be mentioned..... A law juat sanctioned by the Governor; of Louisiana compels all stores, shops,( saloons and places of public business to\ close at midnight, Saturday, and remain s closed until miduight Sunday, and prohibits the proprietors from soiling or giving away any goods during that period, i the only exception being in the case of < drugstores, book Btoree, bakeries, and * newspaper offices.' The South African diamond orop up to the present time has Amounted to six and a half tone, valued at £40,000,000. At Melbourne it is reported that bodies lying in the morgue are daily devoured by rate owing to tho neglect of the authorities to. provide wire coverß. The fourteen miles of street railway ia Glasgow are owned by the city, and bring to the Treasury a rental of £15,200 annually, There is no uniform rate pf fare, but a penny a mile is charged with reduced rates moming and evening, when the working people travel. The Isle of Man is governed by an independant Legislature, The isle is a dominion of tho Crown of England, Th« Government is vested In a Governor , ap- ™ pointed by the Crown, a Oounoil which acts an Upper Chamber of the Legislature -aiid' the House of Keys, The acreage occupied by the roads of the United Eingdoin .cannot .be stated exactly, but taking tife miieago'at tho generally accepted figures, and an ;• average width of s#(eji; yards, we have ab area of 364,454 acfe's, which u$ ~ as af It bMii tbea, -