NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 464, 7 June 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[by electric teleuraph —SPEClAL to STAXDABD.]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mr Henry Irving hopes to be able to visit Australia next winter. The wreck Of the British India steamer Dacca is attributed to a mirage. Madame Patti, the well-known cantatrice, visits Australia. She will probably sail in August. It is rumored that the Duke of Con. naught is to be appointed commander of the forces in Ireland.

It is asserted that King Hubert intends to assume the additional title of Emperor of East Africa.

The Salvation Army is starting Labor Bureaus in London for the purpose of registering unemployed. They intend, if possible, to establish co-operative farms and workshops. Lord Carrington will be appointed Grand Master of the Freemasons of Buckingham. The Nihilists recently arrested at St. Petersburg are being examined tn secret. There is no additional news of importance respecting the Newfoundland fisheries dispute. The Antwerp wool sales opened on the 4th, but the bidding was dull and competition poor. Four thousand six hundred bales of Australian wool were offered, and 2000 were sold at a decline of about 5 per cent on the last closing rates. The personality of the late Marquis of Normanby has been proved at under /600. Rogers offers to make a match between O’Connor and Hanlan for a thousand dollars a-side. Truth states that Prince George of Wales will be created Duke of Sussex shortly. a The Duke of Orleans intends to proceed to England after his release. He has arrived at Basle, in Switzerland.

At a meeting on the Land Question Mr Davitt defended Henry George against the attack made on his principles by Mr Gladstone.

The Marquis of Mores, who was arrested in Paris in May on a charge of inciting the army to join the Anarchists, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for sedition.

[ln reference to the above telegram concerning the Salvation Army, in a letter written to the British Weekly, Mr Stead writes :—“ I hear that there is likely to be a new development in connection with the Salvation Army which will probably have •ery far reaching effects. It is not generally known that the Booths, particularly Mrs Booth, are intensely interested in the social question. When Henry George visited London a year or two[ago he is said to have remarked, after attending a melting ot the Army,' Here is the true social revolution!’ and a good deal of ihe spirit of Henry George has unquestionably entered into the Army and its chief-.. Not, of course, that General Booth is going in for the nationalisation of the Und or any debated policy of that sort. He is an intensely practical man, with a special eye to immediate utility; and the new departure which he is engaged in elaborating has to do with the relief by employment of the unemployed and the reclamation of lapsed industries. lam not at liberty to sav more at present about this matter. But I have discussed the subject at length with the General, and I am satisfied that the scheme now in preparation, em bracing as it does the whole range of the social question in its relation to unemployed labor and wasteland, when it is fully worked out, will command the support, even of those who have hitherto looked askance at the enthusiastic irregulars who march beneath the banner of Blood and Fire."J