NEWS OF THE WORLD.
[BY BLECTBIO TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO STANDARD.) BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Major Wissmann has captured Lundi. The Australian Squadron will sail from London in August. The Australians won the cricket match against Warwickshire by 132 runs. The freedom of the city of London has been conferred on Mr Stanley. The Dunedin and Suburban Gas Company, with a capital of £45,000, has been registered.
Owing to the strike among the gas employees Hamburg was in darkness on Wednesday night, but has now arranged for a restoration of the light. One hundred members of the Unionist party have entertained the Marquis of Hartington at a banquet at Crystal Palace. One fourth of Emin Pasha’s forces at Baganny are either dead, or have deserted.
The Government of Newfoundland is furious with England for refusing to assent to the Fisheries Regulations Bill unless the French also accept. In his speech oril the presentation of the Cobden Club address to Mr Thomas Potter, Mr Gladstone said that he regretted that the colonies had not accepted the English experience in the matter of Free* trade.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 455, 17 May 1890, Page 2
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180NEWS OF THE WORLD. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 455, 17 May 1890, Page 2
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