NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 450, 6 May 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Duke of Edinburgh opened the Edinburgh Exhibition. It is rumored that Stanley has been appointed Governor of the Congo. Lord Stanhope promises to consider the relief of the destitute survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Mr Goschen says he lacked time to consider the question of the investment of trust funds in Colonial securities. Prince Albert Victor has returned to London from his visit to India. Bubear and Brown have been matched to row again on June 6th for £ioo a-side. The Western Australia Enabling Com. mittee have completed taking evidence. Sir Graham Berry has informed the Colonisation Committee that Victoria will not encourage emigration.

Mr Smith, leader of the House of Commons, states that Government is considering the best means of giving effect to the recommendation made by the Berlin Labor Convention.

Lord Hartington supported the Land Purchase Bill. It was attacked by Mr John Morley. Lord Randolph Churchill did not vote. In the House of Commons Mr Cameron’s Bill for the disestablishment of the Church in Scotland was rejected by a majority of 38. Mr Gladstone supported the measure.

The British Government are willing to fix the date ol England’s evacuation of Egypt provided the Great Powers admit her permanent right to interfere in case of any internal danger.

The Czar has ordered an inquiry into the alleged atrocities committed on prisoners at Siberia, and the Grand Duke Alexis will _ make an inspection of the Siberian prisons, in company with an eminent journalist. The American Houseof Representatives has pensioned 450,000 of those who took part in the war, thus absorbing the balance of the national surplus. The British Government scheme for paying compensation to publicans whose licenses are taken away has been published. Sir Wilfrid Lawson and Mr W. S. Cain are organising an opposition to the proposals. May Day passed off quietly throughout Europe. There was a small procession of Socialists from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park. The cesca'.ion of work was fairly general throughout France. A slight skirmish took place between the mob and police at Buda Pesth. The military charged and suppressed the rioters. Elsewhere all is tranquil. The Labor celebrations were scarcely observed in Germany. Fifty thousand persons paraded the Vienna streets, advocating the eight hours system, but there was no disturbance. A large number of people at Marseilles pillaged a factory. The police wete powerless, and the mob broke into a number of shops. The parade of the Labor Demonstration in Hyde Park was a complete fiasco. Not more than 1,500 people gathered, and they mostly Socialists. One hundred and thirty thousand people paraded the Berlin streets. The leaders presented petitions for the legislation of eight hours as a day’s labor. Seventy meetings in Vienna pronounced unanimously in favor of the eight hours movement. The Labor delegates presented a petition on the eight hours question to the Chamber of Deputies. M. Floquet promised that the prayer should have consideration. The Figaro deems the statement that General Boulanger is returning to Paris. The Governor of Paris publicly thanked and rewarded the soldiers for their conduct in repressing the disturbance during the labor demonstration. Louise Michael will be indicted in Paris for speech. A majority of those arrested on suspicion of being connected with the Anarchists have been released. Labor riots have broken out at Roubaix, the chief seat of the French woollen manufactories, and troops had to be called out to disperse the mob. Forty thousand employees of the woollen factories in Roubaix are on strike. The French Bourse has risen.

The Austrian Government granted their employees a half-holiday to enable them to take part in the labor demonstration, and private employers gave a whole holiday. Strikes are spreading throughout Spain. Owing to the riots at Barcelona martial law has been proclaimed there. The eight hours system is being considered by numerous masters throughout Spain. The eight hours agitation is spreading through the United States.