ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 181, 18 November 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The foolisf? and useless display of Mr. Wiltshire in walking 1.000 m:L-s_in 1,000 consectttive hotmc ha* reunited in a commercial failure-, tits c-spouses exceed his takings by £.'!o, counting nothing upon his own time. His pulse during the whole time ranged from SO to 83 per minute. His weight at the commencement wast lOst. 10tb., and at the end of Ids needless walk it had decreased to Sst. bib., thus losing 2st. -lib. in weight. He intends to proceed to Melbourne shortly, where he proposes to walk 1,500 miles in 1,000 hours. In its biojjraphteal sketch of tho late Lord Ardmillati, the St-oUmvH rerarked that he was ratlur a favourite in the General Assembly as a speaker, and to be so ret-|ttir»'S talents snd culture of a sori more strictly literary than tliosj winch secure success as a pf-ader in civil suits. Sonm of his clerical clients did not pay him very munihcently. T k '«re is- a story of one *of them, who was deposed for drnnkenn-fss. having feed him by handing across to him at the bar of the General Assembly (he had previously apologised for having no agent, «fce.) a roii of something that looked in bulk like a feo of between fifteen and twenty sovereigns, but which on being looked at after his eloquent counsel had got horn >, and he himself got prayed over and deposed, turned out to be six rv.vmd peppermint !<.►;:..ng'.s of the kind that is moat effective for at. ding th«j smell of whiskey. # Some little excitement was caused at Chatham Convict Prison recently by the : receipt of a telegram that the projected attack for the release of the three Fenia*: prisoners confuted there was about to be matto. Additional precautions were accordingly taken to ntu-et any attack which ungut be made. The information was that thoseattemptingthwi"elea.He wuutd arrive bywater and attempt to land at the dockyard exCeution whic.t joins the prison, that one of the largo wyodtn veaael* in the factory bastit would be set on tire, and that while the commotion was on an attempt would be. made-to get within the prison walls. In order ti* frustrate any attempt that might be made to land at the dock-yard, ad- ; ditional po'.ieemeti w«,re put on duty along the rivtr trout, and a Very strict wutcU was kept around the basins at the prison. The fttgjtt, however, passed off without anything unusual occurring. In order to prevent the prison warders being tampered wittu to asstsC at trie release of tacse men, their whereabouts in the prison are known to but two or three. As an additional precaution, the men are not placed in the same cells two nights in succession, and after they are locked up for the night the keys of the cells they occupy are retained by the Governor of the prison, instead of being placed tn tae care of Cue principal j warUer. Under these circumstances, snould an entrance be eifected, mue.i time would be l>nt in finding the ceils in which the men are, and wntca are situated in different parts of the prison, as more tnan 1,000 prisoners are confined ttiere.