NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 451, 8 May 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO STANDARD.]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

SUMMARY. General Boulanger has deferred his visit to Paris. Portugal is agreeable to arbitration in the Zanzibar dispute. The London Emigration Societies are federating. The United States Congress rejected the Copyright Bill. Two Boulangists have been elected for Paris Municipality. The Czarewitch and Empress Margaret are betrothed.

Foreigners entering Russia are to be subjected to a more stringent passport system.

The British East African Company declines to recognise slavery. The sailors have struck in London, but it is not a very serious affair. Austria is protesting against the Russian passport system. The Jews in London are concerting measures for opposing the anti-Semitic agitation. The London Asylums' Board has asked Government to enquire whether frozen meat is wholesome. Messrs Friwell and Anderson have begun the work of delimiting the English and German spheres in Africa.

France has assented to the conversion of the Egyptian debt on condition that the operation shall not be repeated for fifteen years. The Marquis of Mores, who was arrested on a charge of inciting the French Army to join the Anarchists, has been liberated. Wool is stronger at London owing to the increased demand from America.

The Royal Geographical Society has presented a gold medal to Mr H. M. Stanley. The Silesian miners have been conceded their demand for eight hours as a day’s labor. Mr Bradlaugh has accepted Mr Burns’ challenge to publicly debate the eight hours’ question. The Reichstag will be asked to vote eighteen million marks annually to increase the German army.

The New Zealand harbor loans have experienced a decline, and the New Plymouth Harbor Board loan is quoted at 86.

Shaw, Saville and Co. have given way to the demands of the sailors at London, that 48 hours shall be considered a week’s labor while ships are in port. Signor Chrispi, Italian Premier, threatens to resign, owing to the Senate rejecting the Bill to abolish bequests to religious institutions. The German Government will introduce legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Labor Conference so far as Germany is concerned, The General Committee to enquire into the affairs of the Panama Canal Company, reports that £36,000,000 will be required to finish the canal, and they ask that all maritime States should be asked .to guarantee the interest on this amount. The work will occupy seven or eight years more.