BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 511, 27 September 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Messrs Dillon and O’Brien have been making defiant speeches at Tipperary. Sir Saul Samuel, on behalf of New South Wales, has purchased Captain Cook’s logbook.

Mr Parnell intends to convene a conference of the Irish Party at Dublin. The opposition to the Anglo-Portuguese Convention js gaining ground in Portugal. At a meeting of the principal coal firms of London and the provinces it was resolved to employ only restricted labor.

A motion has been tabled in the United States Senate calling for better treatment of American political prisoners in England. By an explosion at the Elswick works, on board the new Australian cruiser Pandora, twelve men were fearfully scalded.

Natives are being expelled from Suakin, and grain is not allowed to go into the interior. The cause is fear of a raid by Osma Digna. Nearly all the London chemical firms have joined the Union. A prospectus has been issued fixing the capital at eight and a half millions. Miss Agnes Robertson, Dion Boucicault’s first wife, will oppose the granting of letters of adminstration to Mrs Boucicault (Miss Thorndyke). Rumor says that Sir Robert Herbert resigns the Under-Secretaryship of State for the Colonies, but the Times denies its truth.

Mr O’Brien has brought forward a notice in the British Parliament for the investigation of the charge against Daly, now undergoing sentence of imprisonment for conspiracy. Lord Spencer, speaking at Wakefield, condemned the recent arrest of Irish members, which he contended proved that Mr Balfour’s method had been a failure.

The N. 7.. Shipping Company will pay a dividend of 6 per cent., subject to sanction by the Courts of the reduction of capital, recently assented to by the shareholders,