NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 474, 1 July 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[by electric teleobaph—special to STANDARD.]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Earl Carnarvon is dead. Many deaths .are occurring in New York from sunstroke. The Police Pension Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Commons. The London market for New Zealand flax is dull, with medium at 10s per ton. Miss Cornwall’s Company have abandoned the Adelaide harbor project. The new Australian cruisers are expected to leave Home for the colonies in December.

The Turkish Porte declines to sanction the election of Prince Ferdinand to the the Bulgarian throne. St. Johns (New Fcundland) colonists are purchasing rifles, and a collision with the French is feared. It is doubtful if Lord Balfour of Burleigh will accept the Governorship of New South Wales. John Flett, a returned New Zealander, has been killed by a fall from a cliff in Orkney Islands. Baron Maghermorne (Lieut-Col. Sir Jas. McNaughton McGaret Hog), of Antrim, is dead, aged 67. Severe gales have been experienced at Orkney Is'lands, nine fishing boats being lost, and 3j men drowned. Mr Gladstone and Lord Rosebery will support the residents of Heligoland if they object to be passed over to Germany. Baird, of St. George’s, Newfoundland, claims damages from the Captain of H.M.S. Emerald, owing to 36 lobster factories being closed. Sixteen thousand copies of Stanley’s new book were sold in London on the first day. Major Panitza, who was convicted of plotting to dethrone Prince Ferdinand, has been shot.

The Natal colonists are demanding a responsible Government for Natal, with control over native subjects. Owing to the authorities fearing a strike of the London police force, Foot Guards are practising the patrol. The cricket match between the Australian Eleven and North England has been abandoned, owing to the rain.

Mr Hean, who has been investigating the affairs of the Bank of New Zealand, has arrived from Auckland. The Directors of the Bank entirely deny the reported reconstruction of the Board. The Commission appointed by the Panama Canal Company to inquire into the present position and prospects of the undertaking, report that as the result of their investigations, they estimate that three milliard francs will be required to finish the canal, and that the only possible basis on which the work could be. successfully carried out was by an international syndicate undertaking it.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. For the Paramatta sculling match today between Stainsbury and O’Connor the former is favorite at 4 to I. One of the chief difficulties with the Sydney wharf laborers is said to be owing to the large bags used by New Zealand grain shippers. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. Last night. Seventeen assays of Puhipuhi ore gave an average of 64ozs. of silver to the ton. The coastal seamen to the number of a hundred met and formed a union under the auspices of the Knights of Labor. The operative bakers intend to strike for a uniform rate of wages next week. The A Battery defeated the City Guards in a rifle match. Bunk of Now Zealand shares were sold here to-day at 74s and 755. Pickering beat Dyer in a footrace on Saturday. Mrs Miller, of Newmarket, died suddenly yesterday. The Official Assignee in Bankruptcy was to have applied this morning at the Supreme Court to be released from over 100 closed bankruptcies, but the matter was postponed. On tbe application of John Mogienie Chambers to be discharged from bankruptcy this morning Mr Justice Connolly made some severe remarks on the bankruptcy of persons whose failure was due to simply such a cause as speculating in mining shares. He should always examine with great strictness circumstances attending such applications for discharge. He would be inclined to withhold the discharge. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. C. 8. Forbes, Shipping Engineer of Lyttelton, is missing at Porirua. Suicide is feared, Wm. Loft fell dead, in Wellington, from heart d’sease. John Hyde Harris, solicitor, has been committed for trial for issuing vaiuoiess cheques at Blenheim. A granite monument to the lata Hon. Mr Menzies haa been erected at Invercargill, in memory of his political services. The barque Assaye, London to Wellington, is now 132 days out, and fears are entertained for her safety. At Timaru a father is suing his married daughter to make over to him a deferred payment section of land for which he had completed payment. The Grey Valley Coal Company and the Brunnerton miners are parleying re the price of hewing coal. A Shearers' and Laborers’ Union and a Farmers’ Employers’ Union have been formed at Oamaru. The Canterbury athletes will be entertained at a Smoke Concert in Christchurch on their return from Sydney. Pat Maloney, cab proprietor of Wellington, recovered £1 10; damages from the Wellington tramcar collision. The lonic, from London, reached Port Chalmers to day. The nsssengereand mails were transferred to Ihe Pengain. Kaiwhsre,.the native charged with murdering his wife up the Waitotara river, was com. mitted for manslaughter at Wanganui. MrD. P, Fisher has resigned the secretaryship of the Federated Trades Council at Wellington. The statement of Benjamin and Co., bankrupts of Dunedin, shows the firm’s liabilities to be £7.267, and assets £11,953, showing an apparent Burp'us of £4,685. The principal assets are book debts, £9,724, estimated to produce £7OOO. The body of Win. May, who had been reported to the police as missing, was found yesterday at the Town Bel;, Dunedin, alongside a six chambered revolver, two barrels of which were empty. There was a bullet wound in the right temple. The Wellington drapery employers have intimated to the Early Closing Association

their willingness to curtail the hours on Saturday as soon as the whole of the establishments close at six o'clock on five days of tbe week. Benjamin Rawlings, an old man, left his home at Ranvicktown, near Blenheim, and not returning a search party went out this morning and found him lying oo a river bank, dead. John Gillespie, polioo eonstable atManaia, was charged at the New Plymouth police court With having committed perjury at the last sittings of the Supreme Court. The case was adjourned for a week. A Masonic Lodge under the Grand Orient of Frrnce was opened last night at Wellirg. ton. Sir Robert Stout, Master, installed the Hon. J. Ballance as Senior Warden, Mr Wriggleewortli es Junior Warden, and also sul ordinate officers.