NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 448, 1 May 1890, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[sr electric telegraph—special to STAMIABD.]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Succi, the Italian faster, promises to divulge the nature of the secret fluid which enabled him to fast for forty days. [Succi is said to have discovered the ingredients of this fluid some years ago when he had been sick and had lost his appetite.] Swan Bros., iron brokers, of Glasgow, have suspended payment. Mr Chamberlain advocates that the control of land purchase in Ireland should be placed in the hands of the County Council.

The appointment of Sir Francis Winton as Governor of British East Africa is confirmed. The wool market is weak. The Americans are buying good sorts freely. The present series will probably close on May loth.

President Camot, who has been on a visit to Corsica, has returned to Paris. A diplomatic rupture between Italy and Brazil is expected, owing to the action of the latter in stopping immigration.

A meeting of Australian colonists and merchants will be held next month, when resolutions in support of Colonial Federation will be submitted before the Colonisation Committee.

Mr Dillon Bell has stated that a private company had better prospect of successfully conducting an emigration scheme than the Imperial Government have. The sailors on the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company steamers have struck, demanding 48 hours as a week’s work while the steamers are in harbor. The N.Z. Shipping Co. have conceded the demand.

The dockers endorse the demand made by the sailors. Much alarm is being felt in most European cities at the approaching labor demonstration on Thursday, and in Vienna residents are placing their valuables in the custody of the Banks. The difficulty with the Chicago carpenters is still unsettled. The masters are willing to concede the men’s demands regarding the hours and wages, but decline to recognise trade unions. The King of Dahomey complains that the French troops attacked him without first declaring war. He states that he will not harm the French prrisoners whom he captured in January last, but he will hold them as hostages. Prince Ferdinand is determined to suppress evidence which would tend to implicate Russia in a conspiracy which was formed by Major Panitza to dethrone him. Major Serpa Pinto, who recently returned to Lisbon from the Shire district, Africa, has been appointed Aide de Camp to Don Carlos. He was presented with a sword in recognition of his services while in Africa. At the annual dinner of the civil service at London, Lord Wolseley ridiculed the idea of the English navy being defeated and Great Britain compelled to surrender in the event of her being engaged in war. Prince Bismarck did not attend the Prussian House of Lords.

Mr Stanley has gone to Sandringham, on a visit to the Prince of Wales.