NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 496, 21 August 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

It is doubtful whether the disease in Cairo is really cholera. The potato blight in Ireland is still spreading. The soldiers are assisting the’tithe collectors at Denbigh to recover the tax. A League is being formed having, for its object the encouragement of the growth of beet root in Great Britain. Prince Bismarck is supporting a gigan tic coal syndicate which is established in Germany to check the rise in wages of colliers. A Turkish Commission has been appointed to enquire into the atrocities committed in Armenia. Out of a total of 1800 cases of cholera in Spain, 1000 proved fatal. There is an enormous speculation in silver going on in the. States. 22,000,000 ounces have been sold at prices rising as high as 125 cents. At the Antwerp wool sales the attendance was only moderate. The bidding was fair, and half the catalogue was sold at an advance of 10 centimes on the rates obiained in June.

The Government have decided for the future to shorten the speeches from the throne at the opening of Parliament, thus hoping to limit the debate thereon. General Caprivi, German Chancellor, and Count Kalnoky, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, will shortly visit England to interview the Marquis of Salisbury. In the Speech from the Throne at the prorogation of Parliament, Her Majesty stated she had gladly given her consent to the Bill providing for responsible Government in Western Australia, as similar institutions had worked with marked success elsewhere in Australia. The German-Emperor and the Chancellor met with an ovation on their arrival at Revel. The Czar and Minister of Foreign Affairs met the visitors at Warva, and accorded them a hearty welcome. The Journal de St. Petersburg ex, presses an opinion that the visit of the Emperor of Germany, while dealing little with the policies of Russia and Germany, will greatly strengthen the good relations existing between the two nations. Excepting the torpedo contests nothing of importance has been done at the naval manvoeuvres. Admiral Tryon, who is in command of the defending fleet, has failed to discover the whereabouts of Admiral Seymour, who leads the attack. Dalton, who undertook to swim from France to Folkestone, has succeded in swimming 60 miles in 24 hours. A despatch from Guatemala announces that the States of Guatemala and Honduras are demanding that General Ezeta shall resign the Presidency of San Salvador. General Caulos Ezeta was the leader of the forces in San Salvador, but on the sudden death ol General Menedz, the President, which took place at a banquet held towards the end of June, he assumed command.

The labour agitations in New York have been renewed. During the disturbance arising out of the strikes in New York Central the police stationed at Albany fired on the mob, wounding three persons. This action enraged the crowd and some of the police narrowly escaped being lynched.

THE MARITIME STRIKE.

Sy-dnby, Auanst 19. The seamen, cooks, and stewards have held meetings, at which they resolved to give 24 hours’ notice that they will leave their ships and support the officers. Trie Union Company of New Zealand is only an intercolonial Company, and is not affected by the present difficulty'. The English shin owners have instructed their agents here to ship wool shorn by non-Unionists at all hazards. The marine officers have resolved not to sail in any vessel carrying non-Union shorn wool. There is an active demand for produce owing to the apprehensions of a stoppage of steamers’ traffic. The shearers have received; a telegram from the American knights of Labor offering their support. The wharves present a deserted appearance. The wharf laborers came out in a body at two o’clock this afternoon, and the seamen are coming out as their notice expires. The masters a.nd stevedores are advertising for labor to load and discharge vessels. All vessels in poit, except the boats trading to New Zealand, have been laid up. The coal lumpers have decided to strike to-night, MBt.BWIWB, August 19. The maritime bodies have resolved to come out to-morrow. The officers are leaving the vessels, and are being renlarprl hv nnM-imlrtn men

The amalgated Engineers are offering to lend the officers the sum of /jzoqp. Mr Speight, Railway' Commissioner, does not anticipate any difficulty in obtaining.a-supply of ca.al for the railways, Adm,ah>b, Ausu 119, The shipping trade is proceeding as usual, the difficulty failing to operate against employers. Bmsbikb, August 19, The maritime difficulty is assuming serious dimensions, The Maritime Council ordered all hands to leave the steamers in port. Managers, clerks, and other officials are engaged discharging cargo on the wharves, Londos, August 18 At the celebration of the anniversary of the dockers’ strike sympathy was expressed with the strikes in Melbourne.

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. The Onehunga iron works are how fill' ing local orders in large quantities. A proposal is to be made to light Auckland and the public buildings by electricity. May Queen shares have risen in the last day or two from 2s to Bs, owing to the old Queen of Beauty reef being picked up. By the Te Anau, which arr'ved this afternoon from Sydney, Captain Chrisp and two steerage passengers are en route for Gisborne. Advices have been received by the local agents of the arrival of the Doric at Hobart to-day. She leaves.for New Zealand to-night.

The excitement on the Exchange concerning the Kuatounu stock is still very great, and an immense number of sales take place daily. Another ton of red mercury ore was crushed to-day for six ozs. of gold. The Wainui is overdue from Tonga, and it is believed she is engaged conveying bark the Tongan exiles to that island from Fiji.

The Chamber of Commerce has decided to advise Government that failing the continuance of the San Francisco mail line the direct service is useless to the Northern parts of the Island, and that arrangements be made with the Union Company to connect with the English mail at Sydney. The Union Company’s new steamer Porirna, purchased by Mr Mills at Glasgow, for the coastal trade, is [now on her way out to the colony. A large meeting of Trade Unionists in the City Hall to-night passed resolutions in favor of the Labor Bills before Parliament. Samuel Young, well-known in connection with the goldfields coaching of the early days, died to-day, from consumption. An enquiry is proceeding into the collision between the steamers Rose Casey and the Tainui. Captain Burgess, master of the latter,, admitted that he was formerly pilot; but was dismissed for demanding a bottle of rum from a Yankee skipper. Six of the local tramway employees were suspended to-day for having joined the Tirade and Labor Council. The R.M.S. Tongariro left Capetown on the 17th for Hobar’. Te Kooti has returned from Korio, near Taupo, to Waipa. Captain Skinner, of the schooner 'Gisborne, intends to procure a new and larger vessel for the coasting running, of about 160 tons register. She will most probably be built by Lane and Brown, at Whangaroa.

SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. .At a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board yesterday a letter was received from Gisborne, enclosing accounts for school apparatus, but payment was refused, the expenditure. not having been authorised.

John Williams and Alexander Payne :were yesterday committed for trial at the next Cbnstehurch sittings for. stealing a pocket book and £4O from a man named Lemon, who was drunk. Burns, one of the firemen of the Shaw Saville Co.’s Tainui, was sent to gaol at Wellington yesterday for six months for larceny, of a number of silver spoons from the saloon of the steamer. In the Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday, Frederick Marshall Hadfield, for forging the name, of the late William Goodwin to several cheques, amounting in the aggregate to was sentenced to twelve months’ hard labor.' The Hon. Mr Hislop was to inform, the House this afternoon that Sir F. Whitaker, Attorney-General, will institute civil proceedings against Mr Hutqhison on the charges made-concerning his connection with .the Bank of New Zealand, on the basis ■’of the assertions contained in thq speech made by the member for Waitotara, and circulated throughout the colony in pamphlet form. It is proposed that the case shall be heard in Wellington.