ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 121, 2 March 1881, Page 3

ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

Fboh London to Pabtb Underground. — liffour years' time v.says a Home pater) it may. be possible to make the whole journey* from London to Paris and back by land, and without any change of carriage. The first steps towards tbe construction of a submarine passage have been taken, and a shaft has been driven down to the depth at which the tunnel can be made. In the upper strata, we are told, there was a good deal of water, but " there was no infiltration of it m the gallery, which is m the solid rock " A second shaft if to be driven through the bed of the Straits, and the directors of the company say that the tannel may be completed m 1884 if no unforeseen obstacle arises. Nothing is sacred to the to the sapper, and there is no enterprise which the modern engineer need despair of accomplishing if on>y money is forthcoming. In all probability the ( harm.l t-.nel is simply an affair of time, pounds, shillings, and pence. Wild Houses m New Zealand.— A writer m the Waikato Mail m a description of tbe Tolrert)a~p.ain, which is soon to .come, before ..the Latins Court, says: — ";Of one thing we at best are well assured, there are bu<; few acres of the whol« of its large -area-wfeUh-wiU-be-liereaf tor-found are jra-;-prod active,; or unable to carry grass and "clOvc'f, IHs ajruntry c over which good roads can be ; mosFeasily and oh«cply constructed.. T.Qn the plains^and m the valleys tbe wild horse has his home and his pasture. Wild horses have been so frequently described (hit it will suffice for us to say the horse of Tokoroa m, as seen through jthe . elaae.^tnrdy^qoking, abort legged ani* mal, not by any' means* thl? wetis refine .people, suppose.-* I particularly noticed a fipel black stallion, iwbo .was m company with a herd of nine others. On some few. occasions, we believe, these horses have been joined by horsas the property of tra--Yipliars crossing- the plains. -The Natives say that there must be fflUy 2000 of these horses on Tokoroa,''