BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 467, 14 June 1890, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Emperor William refuses to prosecute Prince Bismarck for divulging state secrets. In the cricket match Australians against Middlesex play was abandoned and the result declared a draw. Parleying between English and Germans in South Africa has been abandoned pending concessions. Fifteen racehorses and seven grooms were killed in a collision which occurred on Wabash railway, Missouri. Sir Julian Paunceforte, British Minister at Washington, has threatened to withdraw from office if any more British sealers are seized in the Behring Straits. The following will represent the players of England in their cricket match against the Australians :—Shrewsbury, Gunn, Flowers, Attwell, Lohmann, Briggs, Peel, Chatterton, and Maurice Read. The Globe says that the hulls of Australian cruisers require strengthening in order to withstand the quick firing arms with which they are armed. Three thousand dock laborers at Gloucester have struck work owing to an alleged breach of agreement. Six thousand miners at Steitenon, in the Department of Loire, have gone out oii strike. Mr Raikes, Postmaster General, has suspended and imposed a fine on one hundred postmen who attended a union 'meeting. Terrific fires, attended with serious loss of life and great destruction to property, have occurred in the Ural district. One thousand houses were burned, and forty persons perished in the fiames.