NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 495, 19 August 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO STANDARD,]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Cholera has broken out at Cairo. Prince Ferdinand has returned to Sofia. Russia is arranging for a railway loan of fifteen millions. Honduras has massed ten thousand troops on the Guatemalan frontier. Robbers disrailed a tram in Baltimore, killing three persons and injuring many. The Duke of Clarence has had a second attack of fever. It is believed the disease is the result of his Indian tour. At a meeting of shareholders of the N.Z. Antimony Company a resolution was carried removing Sir Walter Buller from the Directorate. Heavy gales have been experienced in England lately, and the crops have suffered severely. An examination of the books shows that the Argentine National Bank has lent to friends of President Celman the sum of 30,000,000 dollars. The coal trade of Portsmouth is paralysed owing to a strike of porters and carriers. Fifty thousand of the men out on strike in South Wales have resumed work, and it is expected a compromise will be arranged with the Cardiff dockers. Mrs Parnell, mother of the Irish leader,

is dying in New York. In the House of Commons, Mr Balfour stated that the potato famine in Ireland had come on the Government unexpectedly, but he thought the Poor Law sufficiently provided for the distress. A settlement of the difficulty of the New York Central has not yet been completed, but is dragging slowly onwards. Many of the Bishops and Peers and old Anglican friends will attend the funeral of Cardinal Newman. A hundred and fifty of the Grenadier Reserves have been ordered to the Bermudas. The War Office states that they have been sent to infuse loyalty into younger soldiers.

Henry George states that Imperial Federation is quite out of the thoughts of Australians, and that their loyalty would not be worth sixpence if subject to a strain. There is a panic in America over the military preparations of the Turkish Government, Another firm of lawyers have declined to act in the O'Shea divorce case. The personal property of the late Duke of Manchester has been sworn at under £76,000. Twenty-five thousand barrels of whiskey were burned in a fire at a Kentucky distillery. The London Trades Council has instructed its delegates at the Liverpool Conference to vote in favor of eight hours a day being made legal. Tallow is in good demand. Mutton has advanced tos per ton, and beef 5s per ton since last report. The frozen meat market is quiet. Canterbury mutton is worth 4jifd, and Wellington 3%d. Prime New Zealand lamb is worth, per carcase, fid per lb. New Zealand beef —fore quarters, ; hind quarters. 3Jfd.