WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 12, 23 October 1878, Page 3

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

I hear that at the first blush our officers stigmatise Cyprus as a bole. It is as hot as (no matter where), only much more dreary. There is not a tree to be seen, not a single scrap of shade—not a soul to speak to, and nothing whatever to do ; except for tiie Highlanders, who can have their fill of thistles, and Sir Garnet and his staff as much as they like of official work. Not a few ardent soldiers, who were delighted at the prospect of a campaign in Cyprus, would gladly exchange it for the S trad a Reale or the steps of the Malta Club.

At Kissingen the other day Prince Bismarck “tried his weight” on an armchair machine, and appeared anything but satisfied with the result. The ticket handed by the attendant to the Imperial Chancellor showed that he now weighs 243 pounds 5 grammes, or rather more than lb stone 5 pouuds. He is therefore a stone heavier than this time twelve months

A gallant captain in the Grenadiers was married last week to a very charming young lady. After breakfast the happy pair went to the Crystal Palace, where a balloon was ready for them ; and at 2.45 the bride and bridegroom got into the car and sailed away with a beautiful breeze, crossing the Thames at Deptford, and after a journey of about three hours landed at Waterbeach, near Cambridge, and came back to London by the nightmail. The bridegroom, on the Derbydav, 1877, travelled from Dover to Calais in a small canoe, taking six hours to make the passage.

You really must be more careful of yourself f**r the future my dear captain. Whilst you were a gay bachelor, such little trifles as crossing the channel in a a light canoe were admissible ; but now you are a married man it is time to retire upon your laurels.