Shipping.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1300, 28 October 1880, Page 3

Shipping.

■• Melbourne, October 26. Sailed : l*he tJnion Co.'s steamers t Albion yesterday.' and the Rotorua today, for Netf Zealand.

Sydkey, October 26. Arrived : The Union Co.'s steamer Wakatipu, from Wellington. Advices hftve been, received from Levuka, dated October 9th, in which it is stated the Gunga had not arrived, being four days overdue. It is, however, conjectured that her machinery has broken down*

• Thk Times gave the following notice on 6th September from the Bank of England : <« i n order to prepare for the dividend due on Ist November, 1880, the balances of the several accounts on New Zealand Consolidated Stook, 4 per cent., will be ' struck on the nift-btof Ist or 2nd October. The above-named stock will be trans, ferable without the dividend due on Ist November*"' - ■

The Emperor of Germany, on the ' anniversary of Sedan, gave utterance to the national jealoney of France in a manner considered fully as open to criticism, and as mnch 1 condemned as the speech, of Gambetta;

Reabed by "Wolves.— ln his eminently interesting work entitled "Jungle Life in India" (says the London Daily News) Mr . Bull ha» adduoed good reasons for be- ' Heving that the, old classical story of the rearing- of Bomulus and Bemus by the ehe wotf may be "founded on faot. The author cites .the, case of two lads in an qrphange at Sekandra, 1 near Agra, who Had bgen.fliaoovered among wolves, and in many wayi shared the EabJts of these animals, 'One of his stories is supported by,a letter from Professor Max fuller. It says— '] A trooper, 'sent by the, Native Government, to demand payment of some revenue, was .passing along the/banks of the river about nqon when he saw a large f emalfl wolf leave her den, followed by three whelps and a littleboy; The boy tren^ on aft fours, and when he tried tq 1 ofttoh him, he ran- as fast as the whelps, and kept up wfth the old one. They all entered the den, and were, dug out by the people- 'with pickaxes, and, the boy was aeoured. He struggled hard to rush into every hole or den they ; oame .near. He beo'ame alarmed when he sawr-a m-own-up ' person, and tried, to fly at children and bite them. He rejected cooked meat with disgust, but delighted J» SSBLflflßh and bpa§B, ..patting them under hi« pawp like a dog. They tried to 'make' hint speak, but could get, nothing i+ntn Jpni bnt an anirry growl of snarl." • tfhTM thd" At-Wolf i litter" in Macaulay '§ * • Layfc 6f Ancient Rome">aiust have ieen, after all, no myth.