NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 471, 24 June 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[by electric telegraph —SPEClAL to STANDARD.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The] King of Dahomey is suing for peace. The number of Postmen and Police Unions in London is steadily increasing. The report that Stanley has been appointed Governer of the Congo Free State is premature. The English Press, referring to the recent matches of the Australians, considers the team is collapsing. Stanley says that Lord Salisbury has achieved more than a legion of missionaries and explorers could do. Lord Salisbury, in reply to Lord Rosebery, said that naval experts were favorable to the cession of Heligoland. A cyclone passed over the State of Illinois, wrecking many of the towns and villages. Thirty persons were killed and numbers injured. The first clause of the Bill granting compensation to publicans was carried in the House of Commons by a majority of four.

It is stated that the Czar has sanctioned a Franco-Russian Alliance to balance the Anglo-German agreement. The feeling is gradually spreading ini Germany that in the settlement of the East African question England secured the best of the bargain. Sir Arthur Sullivan has offered Miss Amy Sherwin three years’ liberal engagementin the “Gondoliers ” and “Ivanhoe,” at the Savoy Theatre. A British warship has again ordered the closing of Mr Baird’s lobster factory in St. George’s Biy. Mr Baird refuses to do so unless force is applied. Mr Edward Bradford succeeds Mr Munro as Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London. The London police demand increased pay, but ignore the efforts of Hyndman and other Socialists to provoke a strike. Crowds of Jews are being expelled from the western provinces of Russia, and are seeking refuge in Austria. The Agents-General are . pressing the imperial Chancellor of the Exchequer to agree to sharing a cable guarantee. The Marquis of Salisbury has complained to Portugal of the latter’s violating the sjatus quo in the Shire district, by massing troops on the banks of Rio river. The French Government decline to discuss the question of the disposal of the Egyptian conversion surplus until England has fixed the date of the evacuation of Egypt, and thus compel the levying of a French tax. The Economist predicts a further fall in the price of wool at the third series which opens on Tuesday next, as it considers that the market is unprepared to absorb 400,000 bales without an abatement in price. The Australians were defeated by the Players of England by an innings and 263 runs. The Players, in the first innings, made 525.

[When all things are considered there seems to be no doubt that Britishers may feel satisfied with Lord Salisbury’s recent settlement with Germany, concerning Africa, while the latter makes a good bargain from her different point of view. The long stretch of coast-line ceded to England is from the Juba river, almost under the Equator, southward along the Galla country to where the low-lying coast-line of swampy mangrove woods is broken by the Witu islands. Heligoland, ceded to Germany, lies thirty miles north-ward of the mouth of the Elbe. It consists of a rock two hundred feet high, whereon are a village and a lighthouse. The Hamburgers resort thither for bathing, and the inhabitants occupy themselves chiefly with oyster and lobster fisheries. The island was captured from Denmark in 1807, and formerly was regarded as a naval station of some importance. Another account says :— Heligoland (Holy Land) is a small island in the North Sea, captured from Denmark in 1807, situate opposite to and about twenty, five miles from the mouths of the Elbe, Eider, Weser, and the Jahde. Including Sandy Island, it is about two and two-thirds of a mile in circumference, and has an area of about three-fourths of a mile in circumference, with a population in 1881 of 2001. In consequence of its healthy climate and unrivalled seabathing, it is much resorted to as a bathing place by German and other visitors, sometimes to the number of 15,000 in the season. The inhabitants live principally by fishing (lobsters, haddocks, io.), and letting lodgings. It was the smallest organised British colony, and seems to enjoy a Utopian immunity from the troubles which beset larger communities. It has no debt, no crime, no disease. The Governor's report, issued by the Colonial Office recently, shows that last year's revenue was the largest ever collected on the island, and considerably exceeded the expenditure; that the deposits in tbe savings banks equalled halt a sovereign per head of the population, and that there had been in the year only nine summary convictions, and not one person committed for trial. " Serious crime,” ramarks His Excellency (Mr A. Barkly), “ may be said to be almost unknown in Heligoland.” Tho population is now 2500.] / The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co. have received the following cablegram from their London office, dated 20th June :— Tallow—Market inactive; tallow has declined 64 per lb since last report. Frozen Meat— Mutton market steady; Wallington mutton is worth -lg 1 per lb. Lamb market easier; prime New Zealand lambs are worth per carcase SJI per lb. Beef market inactive; New Zealand beef, forequarters, are worth 2Jd per lb nominal value. Other quotations are unchanged since last telegram. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Tamwortb, situated 282 miles North of Sydney, is partially flooded, and the drowning of a man named Lynch is reported. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. Last night. The 11.M.5. Zeslandla, from San Fianoieco, arrived on Saturday afternoon. Passengers for Auckland—Mrs Robertson and nine steerage. Burglaries in Ponsonby district ire being repotted to the police. Five collier vessels have arrived from New Castle within two days. La grippe is still prevalent, and ths death of Miss Kirk, a young woman ot 26, is reported from this cause. Oussen and Innes, brewers, of Hamilton, were fined £5O for a breach of tbe Beer Duty Act, and the plant was ordered to be forfeited, Tbe hands in the local boot factories were conceded an increase of pay on Saturday, All the factories are very busy. The Kauri Timber Company despatched another cargo of kauri Home to day by the barque Andrea Wilhelmina, The early dosing movement Is still making rapid strides, and its advocates are very hopelul.

At the races on Saturday Lottery won the Cup, Nellie the Trot, and Minnie Grey the Hurdles.

Two gumdiggers named Greaves and Harkings were badly burned through their whare at the Groat Barrier taking fire while they were asleep. The agents of Shaw, Saville and Albion Co. have received cable advice of the launch of the Company’s fifth cargo steamer for the frozen meat trade, to be called the Pakeha. Like the Rangatira, she will be fitted tc carry 50.000 carcases of mutton, besides a large quantity of dairy produce. It is also intended to increase the meat capacity of the Company’s five mail steamers by 5,000 carcases each, in view of the increase in this branch of export trade. NAPIER. Last night. At a meeting of the committee of the Athenieum on Saturday, Mrs O. H. Webber was appointed librarian and assistant secretary. There ware 22 applicants, notwi'.h standing that the salary had been out down to £5O and 5 per cent, commission on sub scriptions, making together about £6O. This evening the members of the Philosophical Institute are holding a social gathering to bid farewell to Mr Hamilton (Secretary and Curator) who proceeds to Dunedin, where he has been appointed librarian and curator to the Otago University. The occasion will also be availed ot to bid adieu to Mr R. Coupland Harding, Treasurer of the Institute, who is relinquishing business here, and going to Wellington to take a situation with Messrs Lvon and Blair. Sorry, a lively spieler not unknown to Gisborne, was sentenced to three months’ hard labor for having no visible means of support. From a legal point of view the decision is a questionable one, seeing that Sorry was flishly dressed and had thirty shillings upon him. He was one of about twenty of the " fraternity ” who were trying to make hay while the sun shone in Napier, many of them having been hunted thence from Southern towns. " Mooch ” was pretty cheeky in the dock, but hie lip lowered when he heard the sentence, the only evidence against him being that be was a recent arrival and had in his possession what are known as cooked dice. He had several coins resembling gold, which were used to flash about and make believe he had money. Last year he had got three months’ imprisonment in Christchurch. Sorry said that was a congpiraoy against him, and that he made his living by backing horses, but the Bench thought suoh tales too indigestible to swallow, and the clever Mr Sorry got there just the same. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The Dunedin Trades and Labor Council sent AlO to the Petone operatives. La grippe has not yet left Greymouth, and cases are still occurring frequently. Mr Twopenny announces that he will be a candidate for Dunedin City at next election. A fire destroyed the house of Mrs Perrin, widow, at Invercargill. Mr G. Fisher got a vote of confidence from his constituents, but no purse of sovereigns this time. The Railway Commission ire decline to grant the demand for an eight hours limit, and a strike is feared. Dr Grace writes to the Wellington newspapers, offering to sell the tramways to the Union at a reasonable price. IThos. Lawrie, bankrupt, for failing to keep reasonable books of accounts, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Westport. The Rsv. Mt Ronaldson, who leaves Dunedin for Christchurch, was presented at a -conversazione, with a purse of sovereigns La grippe lately attacked tbe Brunner people and now forty coal miners are down sick. The ooal trade feels the effects of shortness of miners. Major Campbell retires with a pension of £466 (?) per annum, after 35 years’ service as Clerk of the House. Mr Robert Wilson, of Mastnrton, one of tbe oldest residents of the district, died this morning. Mr Fish regards with suspicion the accession to the Ministry of such a strong freetrader as Captain Russell. A special meeting of shareholders of the Canterbury Press Company is called for Wednesday next to consider the best means of raising £20,000 fresh capital. The Rev, George York has been chosen as assistant curate of St Paul’s Church, Dunedin. The Canterbury Trades and Labor Council adopted the suggestion to set apart October 28th for a labor demonstration.