ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1624, 4 March 1884, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

A correspondent of a Queensland paper, who has travelled a good deal in New Guinea, estimates the native population of that country at 5,000,000. The Limerick hoard o£ Guardians have resolved to take advantago of tho Laborer's (Ireland) Act by orocting 1000 cottages, with half an acre of land attached to each, for the accommodation of agricultural laborers in tho Limerick Union District. Statistics of illiteracy in the German army show a steady falling off of illiteracy among recruits since the year 2876, when the percentage was 2.37. In 1877 it was 2.12, in 1878 1.73, in 1879 1.80, in 1880 1,57, in 1881 1.59, in 1882 1.54, in 1783 1,32, Parisian workman's wages have risen enormously of late years. Stonecutters 10s per day, stonelayers 7s 6d, laborer's 4s 2tl, wooilcai'vcrs and upholsterers 6s B<l to 10s, The salary of the Lord Mayor of London is £IO,OOO. This amount is frequently far exceeded in the expenditure for the year by the occupant of the office. The cost of the Mayoral dinner alone (half of which is borne by the Mayor, and the other half by the two senior alderman) is £SOOO. According to recently published statistics, there are at present 1,971,365 beehives in Franco, from which this autumn 19,897,284 pounds of honey, and 5,691,598 pounds of wax have been taken, the value of which amounts to £93,950.

The English authorities are once more instituting active, measures to suppress betting. At Leicester recently a 'publican named BrougU was fined £3 3s for permitting betting. Tho detectives got ladders at tho rear of the premises and watched the betting operations,

:" May we," asks the ' Globe,' " offer our condolences to the Vegetarian Society 1 It is painfully evident that, despite,; their unwearying efforts, the roust beef of Old England still holds its Own. More than a million sterling changed hands in the Metropolitan Citttle Market in the sales and purchases of beef at the Christmas market. The day is evidently far. distant when Englishmen shall hive learnt to dine on Christmas Day off carrots."

A Swiss scientist, Mcegel, is said to have found, in examining the residuo from the evaporation of freshly fallen snow, living infusoria, and algaj, bacilli and micrococci, mites, biatoms, spores of; fungi,- in immense numbers; also fibres of wood, mouse hairs, pieces of butterfly wings, skin of the larva; of insects, cotton fibres, pieces of grass, piece of grass, epidermis, pollen grains, rye and potato'flour, grains of quartz, minute pieces of roofing tiles, with bits of iron and coal. Still poets continue to use snow as a symbol of absolute durity. More drunken people are arrested in Glasgow and Edinburgh on Sundays than on any other day in the week, Shanghai is already China's commercial emporium, and is destined, it is thought, to become eventually its greatest city.

A branch of the M 'All Mission is to be opened in Calais, where, till lately, there has been no Protestant preaching for 200 years. French silk manufacturers nro reported to be very hopeful as to the capabilities of a big spider lately discovered in Africa, which weaves a yellow web of great strength and elasticity. 11l the great English. Cities, save London and Birkenhead chose Liberals for Mayors this year. The Mayor of Northampton is an ultra Radical. Mr Alfred Maae/ son of Jem Mace, the pugilist/ is at present giving a series of Evangelical lectures at New-Castle-upon-Tyne, and draws crowded houses.

, The Imperial Government is still paying a pension to the widow of a naval officer who was killed at Trafal- , gar 78 years ago. Sir Joshua Reynold's works, to the number of nearly 200, are to becollected and shown, this winter at the Groavernor Gallery in London. It will be the only collection of the kind 1 since 1815.