BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 493, 14 August 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Cardinal Newman is dead. The new American tariff is being leniently enforced. Kaiser William’s second son will re ceive the title of Duke of Heligoland. The potato blight has appeared in County Mayo, Ireland, and a famine is feared.

The steamer Maori King, with New Zealand frozen meat, has arrived in London from the Bluff.

German papers prophesy startling results at an early date from the Emperor’s visit to England. A strong American cricket team will probably visit Australia after a tour through England next season. Baron de Worms denies that England has agreed to allow the Transvaal to annex Swaziland, as asserted by President Kruger. Lord Salisbury states that the freedom of missions in Madagascar has been guaranteed under the arrangement between France and England. A new movement is on foot in Ireland. The tenants are asking Government to reduce the instalments payable under Lord Ashbourne’s Act.

Kemp and O’Connor are signing articles at Sydney fora sculling match in America in March next for ,£5OO a side and the championship of the world. Another soldiery disturbance has oc curred at Chatham, the men cutting the harness again. Three of the prisoners sentenced on Friday have escaped. The London Trades Council has appealed to employers and workpeople to put a stop to the systematic practice of working overtime. A ballot of the Durham miners has resulted in three fourths of the topmen declaring in favor of seven hours as a day’s work. Owners refuse to give way, and a strike is threatening. A struggle is imminent between the Vanderbilts and the Knights of Labor, who have ordered a strike on the New York Central, which will affect all freight trains in the States. The strikers number 18,000, but it is believed the trouble will be settled.

The railway strike is spreading, and the police are guarding the lines. The position at Syracuse, Albany, and Buffalo is serious, troops and detectives being massed. The companies having refused to arbitrate, the Knights of Labor threaten to bring about a general railway strike in the United States, in reverrgefor the dismissal of members. Traffic nas been partially stopped. Blacklegs are now at work on the railway lines in the State of New York, and the strike is collapsing elsewhere. The directors of the Cardiff docks and railways again rejected the terms preferred by the men. Soldiers are in readiness to keep order. The directors of the South Wales railways are taking joint action for the purpose of importing labor to reopen traffic under the protection of police. Negotiations with the strikers at Cardiff are still proceeding, but the position is unaltered.