ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 194, 4 December 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The Indian authorities have peculiar notions as to their own responsibilities, and the use to which the Australian Colonies may be put. The captain of a ship writes :—" The authorities here won't allow me to discharge the grooms who came tip in charge of the horaes from Melbourne, fearing they might become vagrants, and the latter are obliged to retain by the ship. Bnf, at the same time, they compel me to take a distressed British subject (a native of the West Indies) down to Melbourne, where of course he will be landed penniless and in ill-health. Surely, that ought to be inquired into. I don't see why they should shunt their paupers on the Colonies." The London correspondent of an Auckland journal thus writes on the Grecian throne :~—' k The King and Queen of Greece seem about tired of playing at royalty at home, and in spite of the fact that their throne is said to be tottering, are still delaying in the North of Europe. Some people are inclined to think King George has quietly taken his leave of his kingdom, and if so, it will add materially to the Eastern complications. Yon will remember that not long ago the Duke of

Edinbnrgh, then Prince Alfred, refused the Greek throne. Perhaps if it were offered to him now, as husband of the Casar*s daughter, he might be of v. different mind. But thrones are not popular just now, and seem to go a-begging like Indian bishopries." Captain Cameron, the African explorer, was asked, at the session of the British Association, to what he owed his success. He replied that it should be remembered that a man, although he waa black, was a man just as much as if he were white. The proper way to get on among the natives was to behave towards them like a gentleman, and he could assure them that they understood quite well what a gentleman was. He found that the use of any force that was unnecessary or at all wanton was likely to endanger any African traveller.

London has another scandal. It is said that a gentleman, whose wife was supposed to be on a visit to her sister, and who was himself in Paris for a short time, t©ob it into his head to visit Biarritz. He saw more there than he bargained for. He had gone after a fair friend, and while in her company, he cume across his own wife playing the same part with a devoted cavalier, of whom he had long been jealous. Moral: " Served him right," though the world will not judge both parties equally. At the Corpus Christi procession at Limoges, the Abbe Grange, who was looking at the spectators instead of reading hi* breviary, saw two young men with cof ered heads. He knocked off their hats by a blow from his baretta, and called to a policeman, who gave one of them a cuff on the car. The victim of this clericopolice aggression lodged a complaint before the Tribunal Correctionnel of Limoges. The Abbe was acquitted, but policeman was fined 10 francs. Everything has been anticipated. Yes, even a suggestion thrown otit by old

Boozer the other day, that it would be prime to get up a drinking her, the \-.zi man on the platform able to pronounce his name to get the prize. Among German students this kind of thing has long prevaih-d. They have beer-drinking bouts «.:■ In.ua, iu which jjuart after quart goes down, and at intervals a needle and thread is handed round. The last man to tliread the needle is the winner.