BRIEF ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3563, 16 July 1890, Page 2

BRIEF ITEMS.

The King of the Belgians will spend the coming Bummer at Ostend, A titled'lady of England has starte-1 business as a house decorator Paulß. DuChailiu, the famous* Alnean explorer, is in poor hoalth in i London. ru Mrs John Drew is Bixty-nine years*' of ago and has beenon t&.fitaeo sixty-three years. '

i .Russia is about to expend the sum ; ol £1,500,000 in constructing a new : naval station on the Baltic. The Priuco of Wales recently appeared in public with a yellow waiatcoat and green gloves. The heaviest man in England i 3 Jbomas Cougorly, of Dover,' who weighs SGO pounds. _ Death has just separated acouplo luEngland who had been marriil for seventy-seven years. ■ When Alexauder was asked how he had conquered the world lie replied, "By not delaying," Madame Patti is paid at tho rate of £BOO for every concert at which she smga at-the Albert Hall. The work of draining the Roman Campagna, which was begun in 1884, is how nearly completed. . A Zanzibav. rumor has it that jtf mfa has pledged a monopoly of V Central African trade to Germany. It is reported-by th o commission "ii tho. proposed Siberian railway that the road will bo oompleted in ten years,

In Great Britain and Ireland the Baptists have .2876 churches,, 1881 .pastors or missionaries, and 889,126 members. , Emperor William's Alsatian shooting expedition was a brilliant failure it is stated, His Majesty missing wry bird be shot at, ■'■ • '

Two of the albums sent to the International Exhibition of Stamps at Vienna ate insured for JB2IOO and iSOOO. During tho debates in the Prussian Diet Uaron von Pfuch proposed tho oreotion of a statuo to Bismarck'in tho Chambor. Tho National Eiflo Association of England is in financial straits and steps are being takon to raiso money to relieve it. InaLivorpool church recently a bride and bridegroom worn nearly blinded by a quantity of Hour thrown ovor them by a woman, Tho real inventor of tho powder used for tho Lebcl rifles is not tho colonel of that name, but M, Vioillo, a young French engineer. Tho Germans aro to take tho initiative in building forts in East Africa a#hho British aro aghast at their , promptness mid foresight.