ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 157, 21 October 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The following is an extract from one of Josh Billing's lottery,, written at the seaside :—" There ue ax tittle nonsense here generally aa the same number ov visitors are capabhj or. Ferciaila predominate here, as everywhere else this- season. It iff perfelety hart-rtanding tew see the femails here in search of natural protektor*. f Icottnteel sixteen yesterday incite pity ; they all sighed ax £ passed by them, and with, downcast eyes., I felt sorry for them, but couldn't help them, for i am fceurrowty mairiett, and intend to remain ao." The amusements are: crabbing and bathing. Of the first Mr. fUttings observes :—" Yesterday i went out krabbbig, and fcefcched a peck of them , they bit sidjwaya r and hans? on; tike aded hoss-shoe ; they make good l Tittles- enough, but they ain'fc profitable tew eat, if you kounfc your time worth anything." As to bathing : *' It iaf luxurious, and the bathers resemble mermadet, half men and half women; they aw! dress- it* the Choctaw kostoom, and when they emerge from the water yefcant tell Which is who, unless ye ask then*."

We in Lotwttm talk learnedty t> " Paria faahbna,.'* bat is it realty I;tie fact that Paria leada the fashion f li how cornea, it that the moat recent rage in the French) capital is the CJatastwmug 1 * hat * tfca vt& all know, the faahmn waa intrt>~ tiucett rato> London ahortty after the robbery wf the famous j>wstttre> now known t« the world as ** The JStt>ten Dncheaa V bnt the Pariaiana do not aanatty interest themaelvea particularly in details of crime in the English metropotta. However, the fashion haa Been introduced, and for the benefit of the ynriooa amongst tatties, we wilt reproduce thedeaexiption given in the columns of a Paris paper::—" The bonnet the exact cow worn by Georgina, touchesa of Devonshire, in the famoita portrait painted by Oainaboroogh, in the second port of the eighteenth ceatttry. Tni* ahapw of bonnet is one of the moat becoming we have ever seen ; its only defect, wiuchmaay find an additional qua-

I ttty, being a slight touch of eccentricity. ! The best one we have seen had a Idgh--1 pointed crown, and very larg« brims lined ' with naccarat-cotored faillo. and it was ! caught ttp on one side v.-it ft h»ng pale blue ;tul naccarat-cotored f. ,v':.-. r.->. wht.-? w«re h-ft t.-> float at liberty." N• - '-i «'-- idea for that hat did not emamue u.> it i London, whence- comes its name ? As a matter of fact, Pari.*, which has successively gone niad over Flater coats*, skating-rinks, " tted-in" dresses, and Gainsborough hats*, b imitating London fashions as fast as it can. The nussing link, the man with a tail, has been found in' a missionary attached to the New Guinea Mission, the Re*\ George Brown, who writes under ctafe of the °lith February, and from whose letter we extract the fottowing. tit reference to a race of men with tails-:—" I have explored a long tine of coast on New Briton, from a point" about twelve miles beyond Cane Paltiser right "down to 3lan Island. We have been twice round Capet Patliser: the other part* we have often visited. There is a targe population on alt that coast, and ttwy aewuv quite friendly. By the way, the natives here are moat positive in their assertions that there is a race of men with tails at a place catted Katati, quite dose to where- we wero. They say that they are dwarf's, and that the tail, which they represent as being hard and stiff, is an extension of the spinal bono-, and that if the people- wish to sit down, they must first dig a hole to receive this caudal appendage. They quite scout the assert ton that they must by monkeys. Tltey ask, * D«> monkeys talk \ or make taro plantations; I or tight with spears, as these men do f I tett the tale as it is told to me." Those- human beings, in London who lt%-e ' upon horseflesh—l speak metaphorically t>rdy—are in a bad way just nmv. Bad times hare caused great number* of per- : sons to dispense with their carriages and saddle-horses, and the restttt tomanyjwx>r men is disastrous enough. A single Oxford-street firm has on its books the names of no less than 2,-WO coachmen out of employment, and the number of grooms thrown out of work is set down as : more than dottble that figure. Carriage ; builders complain that their occupation is gone, and horse deafer* have much the ' same story to tell. JSow, if ever, is the time to introduce tnppophagy into London. Fifty years ago, a couple of bridesi maids at. a wedding—even amongst people of "" the best society "—was considered the correct thing. Twenty year* ago, four, and sometimes six, young ladies trt that character were deemed sufficient. Cut on Monday last, the Duke of Montrose and his bride were attended by no teas, than sixteen lovely female friends, all clad and bejewelled alike. At this rate, we shall, when our children are married, have to provide lockets and chains, to say nothing of ttmfonn bonnets and dresses, for a whole battalion of young ladies. By the way, elderly ladies who register similar events in their minds, say that the duke was the only one great catch of the season of 1876. Hardly "another tish of any size was landed. Although not a few nibbled at the bait, and some were even hooked for a time, they all got otL A duke only twenty-four years of age, good-looking, agreeable, and popular, is not to be had every day, or for the asking.