BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
The Queen has assented to the AngloGerman agreement. Thirty deaths have lately occurred in Chicago from sunstroke. The daily death rate from cholera at Mecca has increased to 500.
Turkish troops have been called out, the authorities fearing a rising in Armenia. The Newcastle dockers having refused to unload six ships carrying Danish produce the crew and clerks of the consignees were set to do the work. In Berlin it is stated that in one fortnight Prince Bismarck expended a million marks in bribing the toadying portion of the Press.
At a mass meeting of Arabs at Zanzibar, the Sultan’s slavery decree was endorsed. A few Arabs created a slight disturbance when the decree was published.
An American bridge jumper named McAufrey jumped into the Charles River at Boston from a height of 150 feet, and was killed. The Czar is said to be willing to accept Prince Waldemar, youngest son of the King of Denmark, as Prince of Bulgaria. The subject may possibly be settled at the coming interview between the Czar and the Emperor of Germany. The Emperor William was received by the Queen with great pomp at Osborne. Cholera is spreading in Spain, and is expected to burst out in Paris when the heat of August begins to be felt. The wheat crop is estimated as being eleven million quarters below the consumption. Experiments prove that wheat grown in equable and temperate climates is less liable to rust than when grown in any other. The Standard advises Australia to utilise English seed on this account. The Marquis of Hartington marries the Dowager Duchess of Manchester in April next.
Viscount Dunlo, respondent, and Wertheimer, co-respondent, in the recent divorce suit, dined together at a public restaurant. Lady Dunlo is “starring” the Irish music halls. Lord Dunlo, it is expected, will make a trip to the Cape. The Czar’s edicts against the Jews are denied. The old enactments are to be rigorously enforced. General Rivas, during his short-lived revolt, besieged San Salvador capital for forty hours. Some hundreds of lives were lost during the operations. After his execution Rivas’ corpse was publicly exposed. News received from Buenos Ayres states that affairs in the Argentine are now tranquil. A number of senators and deputies support President Celman. It is asserted that Major Palma, who Celman declared to be an informer, has been poisoned. The Cabinet have decided to favor Celman’s scheme of forced paper currency. The rumor is revived that Mr W. H. Smith, leader of the House of Commons, will accept a Peerage, and that Mr Balfour will succeed him. Mr W. L. Jackson, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, is mentioned as likely to assume the Chief Secretaryship of Ireland. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, President of the Board of Trade, is likely to take charge of the Colonial Office, Mr Alford Knutsfbrd becoming Lord Privy Seal. The Marquis of Salisbury has declined to accept the overtures of the friends of Lord Randolph Churchill regarding the latter rejoining the Cabinet. Mount Athos, a famous Monkish retreat in France, has been burnt. The magnificent forests have been devastated, the old monasteries and hermitages destroyed. Twenty monks and hermits perished. The railway men in South Wales declare themselves willing to accept Lords Brassey and Aberdale as arbitrators. If they are not successful in arranging matters there will be 100,000 men idle on Wednesday. Over a quarter of a million outside workmen will also be affected. The railway men in the counties in the vicinity of South Wales will help the strikers.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 490, 7 August 1890, Page 2
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592BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 490, 7 August 1890, Page 2
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