BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 499, 28 August 1890, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Cholera has appeared io Natal. Honduras and Salvador are fighting. Influenza has re-appeared at Paris and Vienna. Fresh outbreaks are reported in the Argentine provinces. The Aorangi sailed from Plymouth on Saturday for New Zealand. It is reported that a thousand deaths from cholera'have occurred in China and Japan.

The Pope has written to Cardinal Manning, expressing regret at the death of Cardinal Newman. Two thousand harvesters in Dublin County have struck.

Seventeen thousand men are out on Strike in Belgium. The Agricultural Company’s men have struck at Newcastle, and there is eveiy probability of a general strike in the coal trade.

Vanderbilt’s railway men decline to strike. The Supreme Council, while endorsing Grand Master Workman Powerley’s position with respect to the Central Railway strike, has refused to order a general strike in America. A meeting at Limerick, attended by 30,000 people, passed a vote of confidence in Mr Dillon, as against Bishop O’Dwyer.

The London Observer states that Portugal has offered the Delagoa Bay district to the Transvaal Government for five millions sterling. Lord Salisbury, in reply to an interpellation from the Porte, has declared that it is premature to discuss the evacuation of Egypt by the British. The interview between the Czar and Emperor of Germany, at St. Petersburg, was of a cordial character. At a farewell banquet two monarchs mutually pledged each others healths. It is reported that a revolt has occurred in Honolulu, and that King Kalakaua has been driven into exile. TheEmpeiorof Germany has arrived at Memal. He is strongly impressed with Russia's desire for peace. A rumor is current that the Prince of Wales has been left a splendid legacy by t gentleman recently deceased, The Daily News, referring to the Bank of New Zealand, considers it has turned the corner, and that the worst is now known.

Bishop O'Dwyer, in aletterto the Freeman’s Journal, says the multitude are incapable of judging properly. He denounced boycotting, and insists on obedience to the Pope. The potato blight has spread over the whole ot the South of Ireland. Rain has injured the bay crop, and smut is affecting the wheat, During the Italian army manoeuvres, batteries of artillery were firing for half an hour, with smokeless powder, without their position being observed. Mr Dillon, speaking at Limerick, declared that boycotting was the war of the unarmed against the terrible oppression, It was effective when wisely used, to vindicate their rights and achieve justice, without which the cause of Ireland would not be advanced. He defended himself against Bishop O’Dwyer’s charges. Mr O’Brien denounced the Bishop as a supporter of landlords.