NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 444, 22 April 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN

General Boulanger visits London in May. The Belgian Government have abandoned the Congo loan. The net yield of the Victorian loan was par.

Prince Bismarck is accused of inspiring the Press to attack General Caprivi. It is stated that the report of the Portuguese expedition to Shire is without foundation.

An anti-Semitic plot has resulted in 130 Jewish houses at Sandar, Zolicka, being burned.

In the course of his Budget speech, Mr Goschen stated that the reduction of ocean postage to would cost /i 05,000 for the complete year. The disturbance created by the Silesian miners still continues. Forty thousand miners are pillaging the villages. Twenty-five thousand carpenters of Chicago have gone out on strike. The building trade in the city is practically at a standstill. The Tariff Committee of Congress estimates that the proposed reduction in Customs Duties will amount to seventy million dollars, and in the international revenue to ten millions. It is improbable that the wool imports will be maintained.

Orders have been given by the Admiralty for the construction of two gun boats suitable for the navigation of the Zatnbesia and Shire rivers.

Herr Plessen, German Naval attache, has been discovered buying plans of Constradt from a traitorous officer. Plessen left St. Petersburg hurriedly, and the traitor has been arrested.

New Zealand butter of good quality is at 755, prime quality 85s. Cheese, good, in London market is bringing 17s. Recent arrivals have been of unequal quality. Emin Pasha starts on his expedition on Monday. The British East Africa Co. are desirous of sending Stanley to counteract his influence. Russia is massing troops in the neighborhood of Caucasus in view of trouble in Armenia.

Lord Carrington will return from New South Wales at the end of his five years. The Marquis of Lothian is still regarded as his successor.

Captain Kane, of H.M.S. Calliope, has been appointed to the command of H.M.S. Excellent, gunnery ship at Portsmouth. Lamb by the Zealandia is selling in London at ; mutton at 4#d. New Zealand beef, hind quarters, is at fore quarter 4d. From 80 to 150 carcases by the Ashleigh Brooke have been condemned and the total of 2000 is more or less affected.

The Emperor William visits Russia in the summer and Portugal in October. It is asserted that the discovery of a projected Russian invasian on Germany induced the Emperor to conciliate France. A rumor is current that Emperor William requested Prince Bismarck to return letters written by him, when the Crown Prince and Prince Bismarck refused.

The Duke of Argyle writes in favor of the Irish Land Purchase Bill, and contends that the objection of Parnellites to the measure is caused by fear that it will bring contentment to Irish people. To-day being “ Primrose Day,” Her Majesty the Queen, who is on the Continent, forwarded a wreath of primroses to Hughenden, in memory of the late Earl Beaconsfield.