NEWS OF THE WORLD.
[by elbctric telegraph—special to STANDARD.]
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
The naval manoeuvres ended in a fiasco. The dockers hold a conference on September 23. The Pelican Club is being indicted as a nuisance, owing to the rough mobs attracted. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton preached a sermon at Cardinal Newman’s funeral. There is great speculation in the wheat market. The Tilbury dock owners will not bind themselves to engage Unionists. Two hundred houses have been levelled and 20 persons killed by a cyclone at Pennslyvania.
The British India Company are building four steamers adapted to the meat traffic. The steamer Predano, 5000 tons, the first steamer from New York to Australia direct, has sailed. Five hundred houses were destroyed, and 30 lives lost, by storms in France.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 497, 23 August 1890, Page 2
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131NEWS OF THE WORLD. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 497, 23 August 1890, Page 2
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