NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 453, 13 May 1890, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The London wool market is steady. New Zealand four per cents are quoted at 106. The frozen meat market in London is unchanged. The report that Mr Stanley is to be knighted is denied. German financiers deprecate the increase in the military vote. Best New Zealand hemp, in London, is worth £22 5s to £22 ios. Major Wissmann has been released. British subjects are detained at Kilimea. Twenty thousand strikers at Roubaix have resumed work. Uneasiness is felt in Russia at the increase of the German armaments. The French Government is considering the question of taxing foreigners. O’Donovan Rossa has been fined 100 dollars for libelling Patrick Cassidy. The Egyptian Government accept the wider conversion scheme proposed by France.

Mr Smith will introduce a Bill in the House of Commons to deal with the sweating scandal. The French Government suggest that international action should be taken to suppress anarchists. The Dahomeyans are yielding to the French, and have asked that the time of ultimatum should be extended to •r Saturday. ' ’ The British imports for April have decreased and exports have increased £700,000, compared with the same month last year, General Mirebean, chief of the staff, will be appointed to the supreme command of the French army in the event of war, The keeper of a dancing saloon at Valliee Station, Colorado, having shot and killed one of the visitors, the latter’s friend immediately seised and hanged the murderer. A company has been formed in Massachussets for constructinga railway through Palestine, connecting the principal towns, and extending through Gallie to Damascus, Miss Myra Kemble, having decided to return to Australia, has declined a leading engagement for London and the provinces. Congress has granted a pension of £to per month to Mrs Parnell. Many violent lunatics escaped at Chicago, creating terror in the country. The settlers shot one, and bound others to trees. Mrs O’Shea has obtained a-writ compelling her husband to fulfil the marriage settlement. The murderers of Dr Cronin have been detected in an attempt to escape from gaol. They had made great preparations for securing freedom, and had bribed the waYders, The New Plymouth Harbor Board stocks are down to sixty. The cricket match Australians v. Lord Sheffield's team, which had been postfioned owing to the heavy rain, resulted n a decisive victory for the Australians, by an innings and 34 runs.