ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 174, 10 November 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The writer of ** Old Identities " in the Ao<.\:h>,nd f'.V»w« says :— *" 4 On the Iwaeh, in front »f the Victoria Hotel, on the 2*Jth Jannary, 18 s>, a great Maori war danw took place, the ta«t war <«anee ever seen in the elty. The 'lay was bvautifnUy dear, ami nearly all the inhabitants, m«n. women, ami e'.ifdren, turned out to witness the j>\ rformance. It was ilarißj W water, ami at that time the bt-ach wss etean »mt tirot, #titl the tarties as iisiwl got to the front r.uik to have the best view. Thy Maori* were the picked men who had cotne in their Urge war canoes to attend the regatta ; and they a fine lot of men. They began as uattul with the quiet monotonous grwtt: but when the quick •ha r ha V the united jump, the glaring ryes, the protrod-d the wiM shriek, anil off w*>nt the blankets, and then the/ w«>re stark naked. T.tere was a sci'tattt frotu the front r.tiil; of spectators, and a rush of ladies t VicCoria iitu such as njver has bjen witnessed before nor since thai time."

Mrs. Cuff, a widow and clrc ; 3maker, resi ting at South Melby«:n-, was sutntnonwtl t«> the I'rah run Police Court recently tt> answer a ch.u'g: of having iil gaily poftcel nnder p ;r rate, a copy oj the Sntfhurtn Crow, tn the folds oi w itc v a* ( cn'iuaal'jtl a atip of paper bearing the wyrcts, " I wit! l e clown on Saturday to see Tru- newspaper was loanct to fee cttfc op into patterns of a c'iildfa Ths Ujnc'i, however, considered that there hart feetin no attempt to lEet'ran:! the revering, as t'le paper was matte op more as a parcel thin a newspaper, and the postage was simply deficient, Cade disßiiased. A nrtttib.r of married women in Catnferidgepwrt, Ma«., have form-: 1 ■. c£■.>.-

How a squatter in the Riverina district [ wa3 beautifully "sold " is ihi— -wL... . ~i ! a local i'.tjior :—" The other day a squatter j in th«se parts «*n.i,d a tank sunk and eni «.!••)■ d<is a certain jrart of his run. He v. : t ivii J.y two slveple-looidilg , i.es'..' who required the job. He had [ made up the work, and was ready to go ia3 far as £OO or £7O. Judge of his sur- | prs3> to find that the pair would do it for j £37. This, at a time when wool was I going down, was too good a thing not to be einbrae.d at once. He agreed, and the ! men commenced to work. They built the dam, got their £37. and both were satisfied, or apparency so. The sequel has, however, income. Trie dam-makers came j to t ;.e la; d on the following Thursday and wl-i'ted the land on which f was tank tiiey had just completed. The improvement was not worth £4O, it had onty cost £-M. you see, ts erect, and consequently tiiere was no bar to selection. After t.iis, who will say that the Heathen Ciunee has a monopoly of the ways t.»at are dark, ifcc. I It is a fact perhaps not generally known t'.at tlierj is a kmi doing business in fcjan Francisco who purchase tho thousands of dogs slaughtered by the poundmaster of t.,ar, city, or t..at may have been otherwise killed, for Witic.i they pay forty cents each. T..e carcases are conveyed to tlieir mititifactory at J?out'i San I'rancisco, v;..t .e steins are ivmovcd aii-t sold to ta« tanneries, t.ie hair taken oj and resold to p«;wt rors, tue hide tanned, made into gloves, and sold in tue market. Tue

denuded tarjase is tiien thrown into a huge cauldron antl boiled until the bones ar-j «.asdy scpara.ed from t.ie tlesii, wiien t.jey are removed and sold to t..e sugar rcljuents, wuere they arj ground to a line and uaed to clar./y sugar. The od t:iac ns'js to the aun'acc of tue boiling masj is skimmed oil' and manufactured i ito cod liver oil, and t"e remainder is Ua.d ior tae purpose of fattening hogs. — UitfMnd A'etw.

There is a family in this town (says the Li>i AujJvs lfcpujiimn) with iim~ varieties of c.iil.treii. T.ie liusoand and wife i.avo each been married twice before, and had one child at eac.i former marriage, w.tch makes four c»ildivu, eac.i one I.avtng libit rent parent 3. llie present wttes former Inuoands iiad eac.i been married before, leaving a child by their tormer wived, wnich maiies six c.iifuren ox dttieieiit parents. T.ie pres_-nt Jiusuand s t-vu former wives iiaJ been previously married, leaving eac.i one c..iid, making «>: lUiici'ciit parents. The present husband and wn'o oy this marriage Jiave one c.atd, making n;Jie, all l.viug and xiu uaviiig tii--' s.i.iie p;.reuts. 'i'iie husband. after nis m;Uiiioid matrimonial experience, w consumptive, and it is not improbable ids wite may have t.ie opportu--11 ty oil" marrying a iotirt.i husuanu, perhaps a widower wit.i einldren, w.iic.i wiii sctil iurt.'icr perplex this peculiar family. The announces the death of Mr. jtl. . Li-isie, the translator or *' Tm Arabian Nights ' and t.ie "Koran," and the compiler of She " Arabic-English Lexicon." lie was an Orientalist of unusual knowledge and experience, and a worker of a type t..at threatens to disapppear. F«>r neariy fifty years he worked twelve hours a May, devuting thirty-five of ttie titty years to his lexicon, which covers 2,-09 quarto pages of three colunis eacli, and contains wit.i every word a reference to t.ie native lexicon from which any statement about it lias been derived, ill*. Lane had not t se pleasure of completing his l.xic«u ; but it is stated that it can be finished from the manuscript he leaves behind him. He works.d almost as patiently, though for less time, at his " Manner and Customs of the Modern Egyptians," a book which, as an account of an Eastern people, has absolutely no rival, and quite surpasses any work we p»ss.s.i upon any province of the Indian Empire, where we need more perhaps t.ta;i atiyt .nig, a few men of Mr. Lane's stamp, tue men who can interpret an Eastern people to a European one. ■Such work requires an unusual combination of qualities—learning, sympathy, patience, and descriptive pjwer, and pernaps one more qualification, poverty. Kica men v.ill not toil like Mr. Line. fsa 1 account.* coatinue to be published roiu time to time- regarding tue lueutal state ot the beaauful ex-Empress Charlotte, ot Mexico, wi.ois under surveillance at t.ie Caa.fe of Lucken, in .Belgium. It is related t .at. imc Uay recently she escaped the vigilance of her attendants, and wandered a considerable way from tie castle. Force being out out of the question as a last resort, it was, axtei thought, resolved to entice her back by jn.ans of her passionate love for flowers. Beautirt.'i flowers were obtained and dropped at intervals on the way back to the castle, ami the unhappy lady, absorbed in picking them up, unwittingly wandered back thither, xnis touching ing incident is true.