BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 489, 5 August 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Succi’s rival, Jacques, has fasted for forty-two days in London. The prospects of the European crops generally are improving. Two ladies bathing at Niagara were swept over the rapids and drowned. It is reported in London that Viscount Dunlo and his wife have become reconciled. The Earl ol Zetland, Viceroy of Ireland, declares that country is virtually free from crime. Two hundred and eighteen thousand bales of wool have been sold in London since the closing of the June and July series.

The outbreak of cholera is rapidly spreading at Mecca, and a hundred deaths a day are reported. Huddart and Parker’s new steamer Hygeia, for Melbourne, accomplished 23 miles an hour on her trial trip at London. There are indications that pressure is being brought to bear to compel Prince Ferdinand to resign his claim to the throne of Bulgaria. A correspondent of the London Daily News gives some horrible details of the treatment to which prisoners in Macedonia are subjected. Severe fighting has taken place in Ugago, East Africa, between the followers of Emin Bey and the natives, during which the latter lost severely. Intelligence from San Salvador states that the traitor General Riva escaped from custody, but was captured and shot, his body being exposed. In the United States Senate the Democrat party are moving amendments to Mr McKinley’s Tariff Bill, in the direction of reducing import duties. The Colonising Committee of the House of Commons will defer their report until next year owing to the discussion on the question of emigration. Nine London oarsmen competed for the

Searle Memorial Cup, which was rowed from Putney to Barnes. In the final heat East defeated Corcoran and Perkins. Fifteen hundred joiners at Fifeshire have gone out on strike as a protest against the award made by Mr Burt, apportioning to shipwrights work they allege should be given to joiners. They demand that the question shall be reconsidered. Fourteen hundred colliers at Pontypridd have gone out on strike. The London Dock Laborers’ Union are considering a scheme by which the Union will contract for the discharge of all ships. The German Government have granted the demand of miners’ delegates for eight hours, and have agreed to reinstate the men who were dismissed for going out on strike. Reports have reached Buenos Ayres that fighting is still going on |at Lomas, fifteen miles distant. The premium on gold is 230. It is expected that the friends of Dr Celman, the President, will compel him to resign. The populace are still ( excited, but order is maintained. Acting under British influence the . Sultan of Zanzibar has forbidden sales or ; exchange of slaves, and has issued orders , closing depots formerly used for the 1 receipt of slaves* He has also agreed 1

that slaves may purchase their freedom, and he declares that slavery will end with the death of present owners. The Arabs accept the decision with composure. The London Docks Committee have arranged with theAnglo-Australian Steam Company for a regular line of steamers to run between Avonmouth docks and Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. The first steamer will probably leave for the colonies about the middle of the month. The scheme has been largely supported in the West of England. A million and a half ounces of silver were sold in New York on Thursday, and prices closed at 113% cents. The silver party are booming prices. It is estimated that in thenext three monfhs America will require eighteen million ounces of silver. The present stock is seven million ounces, and the average monthly production is four million ounces. Another plot against the Czar has been disovered amongst the Nihilists, and two officers of thearmy who were suspected o complicity have committed suicide Numerous arrests have been made, both at St. Petersburg and Moscow.