NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 465, 10 June 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Mr Stanley openly accuses Emin Bey of treachery. New Zealand hernn of good medium quality, averages £2O to £2O 5s in London. The Channel Tunnel Bill was rejected in the House of Commons by 81. Chancellor Von Caprivi has notified foreign embassies in Berlin that Prince Bismarck’s utterance is wholly unofficial. Bulgaria will shortly address a note to Great Britain, Italy, and Austria, urging recognition by Austria. Cambridge made 357 in their second innings, and the Australians now require 195 runs to win.

Sir James Fergusson has stated that England was not indisposed to arbitrate on the Newfoundland difficulty if a basis of reference was possible. Messrs Shaw, Saville and Co. have purchased the steamer Rangatira, capable of carrying 50,000 carcases of frozen mutton. The N. Z. Shipping Company have secured the sister ship.

It is probable the proportion of recidivistes sent to New Caledonia will be considerably increased.

The statement is confirmed that a meeting is being arranged between the Czar and the Emperor of Austria. The market in London for hindquarters of New Zealand beef is weaker, and there has been a decline of tfd per lb.

The British Government will make no further purchase of frozen beef until October next.

The amount to complete the Panama Canal, provided the existing plant is secured for nothing, is put at nine hundred million francs (£36,000,000), and the time at nine years. Sir J. Fergusson said the Governor of Newfoundland denied that men had been landed from French warships. The French commander was justified in the demands he made. The Newfoundland Press is furious at what is termed French invasion under the very guns of British .warships. The value of exports from Great Britain for May have increased by two and a-half millions, and that of imports has decreased by nearly one and a-half millions as compared with that of the corresponding month of last year. At the Antwerp wool sales 1,000 bales were offered, but were only halt disposed of. Australian greasy sorts were five per cent., and scoured ten per cent, below the prices obtained at the close of the last sales.

In London a public demonstration was made to-day against the provision in the new Licensing Bill introduced by the Government, to grant compensation to publicans whose licenses were refused. Several thousand persons marched in procession from the embankment to Hyde Park, where speeches were delivered, protesting against the proposal. Several slight conflicts took place between the police and the processionists. Considerable excitement has been occasioned by a statement made in the Reichstag by the German Minister of War to the effect that it was intended to increase the strength of the Army by 50,000 men, construct an additional railway for strategic purposes, and obtain a further supply of rifles. The fate of the Army Bill is doubtful.

Anxiety is increasing lest the Premier should agree to the extension of the German protectorate in Africa to the frontier of the Congo Free State, and consent to Germany absorbing Uganda, and giving access to the upper waters of Zambesi. The prospects of an agreement between England and Germany in East Africa are wavering, as the Germans decline to budge from the position they have taken up.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London Office, dated 6th inst: —Tallow Market—Tallow is ready of sale. Fine mutton is worth 25s per cwt. Frozen Meat Market.—Mutton market firm. Canterbury mutton is worth 4Jd per lb. Wellington mutton is worth per lb. Lamb market firm, Canterbury lamb ia worth 6d per lb. Beef market sluggish. N.Z. beef, forequarters are worth 3d per lb, hindquarters are worth 3?d per lb.

[ln reference to the above cablegram about Stanley and Emin Bey the following note will be of interest;— A London correspondent writes :—Emin Pasha’s so-called “ base ingratitude ” has caused little surprise in Egypt, where it was noticed from the moment of their arrival that all was not — well — serene between ths 11 rescued and the rescuer.” That Stanley thoroughlv dominated Emin anyone could see, and if the German didn't both fear and hate his capturer—l beg pardon—his preserver, lam assured his features belied him. On one or two occasions the old fellow threw off the mask altogether. For example when one of Scanley’e lieutenants was talking nt their return to Europe, Emin gruffly observed that he would be —- several 'imes over before he'd go to either London or Brussels to play the part of rescued captive to Stanley’s gallant hero. This I heard from James Thomson, the explorer, who got it first hand from tht said lieutenant. The truth, of course, is Emin was forcibly abdutued and tied to Stanley’s chariot wheels in order that the expedition might not lose its -raiton d'titre. The one thing the American did not, calculate on was his victim acting as he has. He tries, naturally, to make the best of the oontretempt, but that the best is ridiculous unfortunately cannot be denied.’