BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 494, 16 August 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Cholera is declining in Spain. Kaiser William has left for St. Petersburg. An /Ynglo-Portugese agreement has been signed. War between San Salvador and Honduras seems imminent. The position of affairs in the Argentine is causing increased uneasiness. Phylloxera has appeared in the Marne and Rhine districts, in France. The German fortifications of Heligoland will cost a million and a half pounds sterling. The Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce has protested against the proposed Chinese Convention. Mass, in memory of the late Cardinal Newman, was celebrated in the Pope’s private chapel at Rome. The Australian Cricketers play Gentlemen of England at Lords on September Bth, for thp benefit of the cricketers’ fund. M. Ribot is examining a scheme for the construction of an international railway from Algeria to Capetown, through Africa. The Novosti Vremya, a St. Petersburg journal, predicts important political results from the German Emperor’s interview with the Czar. It is stated that Prince Alexander of Bulgaria has adopted the children of Major Panitza, who was shot for treason, The potato disease has made its appearance in Ayrshire. The disease is spreading at Home. It is estimated the yield will only be one-fourth of the average, and the fears of a famine are increasing. The Public Works Department has been requested to afford relief. Rioting, followed by a strike, has occurred among the workmen in thequarries on Mr Parnell’s estate. The Dublin and Wexford railway strike has collapsed. Fiftyofthe disobedient London postmen have been reinstated. The strike in South Wales affects 50,000 people. The prospect of a settlement being arrived at is improving. The signal boxes have been burned by the strikers to prevent the lines being worked. The Royal engineers have been asked to work the railways. Duncan, editor of the London Matrimonial News, was cast in damages in the sum of /jo,ooo for breach of promise. The plaintiff, who is only 21, is a granddaughter of Sir Francis Knowles, while defendant is 64. The scamp had attempted to seduce the young lady. He had been married twice, and had seven children by his wives, besides six by other mothers.