NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 477, 8 July 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO STANDARD.) BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Count Kalnoky, of Vienna, is recovering. The Newfoundland fishery disputes ar e becoming serious. The Leeds strike is practically settled, higher wages being granted. New Zealand hemp at London —good medium quality is £ig 5s to .£l9 10s. The grave political and financial crisis continues in the Argentine Republic. Tallow is in good demand at London. Inferior has advanced 3d per cwt since •ast report. A French man-of-war drove oft thirty British vessels taking bait at Port au Port, Newfoundland, and seized and cut their nets. England has offered Suakim to Italy on condition that she renounces the protectorate over Somali Coast. A Bill has been introduced into the British House of Commons rendering adultery or desertion by husband a cause for divorce.

Mr R. S. Cane, ex M.P. for Barron, has written to Mr Gladstone accepting the main principles of Home Rule, but reserving his opinion on details. Fifteen thousand Newfoundlanders have petitioned the House of Commons, praying Parliament to grant them relief from French oppression. A bill sanctioning the cession of Heligoland to Germany has been introduced into the House of Commons, and the second reading fixed for Thursday. The Queen has presented Miss Dorothy Tennant, who is betrothed to Mr Stanley, with her miniature, set in brilliants, and a lock of her hair. The News states Mr R. H. Smith will shortly accept a peerage, and Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will lead the House of Commons. The Premier of Newfoundland denies that the Colony desires annexation to the United States, and states that he is confident of England’s protection in the present difficulty. The London Statist says that the Victorian railway proposals are a fitting sequel to the glaring financial blunders which have earned for that colony an unenviable notoriety.

At last London wool sales merinos were dearer, while crossbreds were slightly easier. The market generally is firm and spirited. Merinosaverage from per cent, below May rates. A company, including some first-class capitalists in London, is being formed to take over the globo assets of the Bank of New Zealand.

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. Last night. The Arawata hae arrived from Fiji. George Wirth, of circus fame, was fined to-day for assaulting an employee. News has been received that the cutter Dream is ashore near Point Rodney. Gold bullion from Puhipuhi stone is on exhibition in town. William Wallace, son of a Mangari farmer, was found derd, and examination showed the stomach was full of carbolic acid. Emma Mewrant, a sixteen year old girl, suicided at Dargarville by taking rough on rats. D. McLean, Lush contractor of Whananaki, died from the effects of a slight accident. Two coastal seamen’s unions have been formed. One is and the other is not associated with the Knights of Labor. A decree nisi was granted to day in the divorce case Pearson v. Pearson, the latter being an actor otherwise known as Gerald. At a public test made at the Onehunga Iron Works on Saturday over fifieen tons of pig iron from local ore was run out in five minutes. The Kuaotuna Goldfields stocks have gone up owing to the-news that the Try Fluke crushing has given 267 ozs. gold from fifty tons. An information has been laid against Edward J. Robertson, formerly clerk in the Customs, for embezzling the moneys of the Government. He was a well-known footballer. Richard Stokes was found dead in the bush near Whangarei. The long standing dispute between Garrett Bros, and the Bootmakers' Union has been settled, Garrett Bros, giving way on all points. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce has been called to urge on Government the necessity for further reti’cnchment. The seaman lost from the schooner Christine on the voyage from the Islands was a Kanaka.

The fa.vora.bl 3 intelligence with regard to the action of the London Board of Directors of tha Bank of New Zealand has had a stimulating effect on the local sharemarket. The Waitara freezing works were lately purchased by three gentlemen not already in the trade. They hold a guarantee from Hawera of sixty or seventy thousand sheep . annually. The Star says that Mr Rees has received a telegram stating that Government will probably introduce a Bill this session, providing for a settlement of the East Coast native land troubles upon the basis of the Whingara agreement. After giving further information which has already appeared in the Gigborne Standard, the Star says that Mr Bees is of opinion that if power were conferred upon Commissioners to give effect to arrangements of this kind when the parties on both sides are agreeable, and to arbitrate upon and determine disputes, the great barrier to progress on the East Coast would be removed, better feeling would be established between Europeans and natives, and hundreds of thousands of acres of land now locked up would be thrown open for profitable occupation. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. Constable Gillespie, charged with perjury, hae been remanded from New Plymouth to Stratford. Richard Bennett, ex volunteer officer, shot himself through the heart at Oamaru. Mr Penfold, Secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club, has resigned, having received the secretaryship of the Melbourne Club. The Executive of the Railway Servants’ Society have decided that immediate steps be taken to introduce the rule that no member of the Society shall work with a non Society man. A young man named Archibald Ingram was killed by a fall of earth whilst working in a gravel pit near Hunterville.