BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 516, 9 October 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The effort of Ferrars to form a new Portugese Cabinet has failed.’ The Dockers’ Congress have decided that it would be impossible to enforce the eight hours’ limit. It is reported, maliciously no doubt, that Mr Parnell has made up his mind to get married if Captain O’Shea succeeds in his divorce suit. It is decided that the Czarewitch shall visit Constantinople. The AHan’Jline]|o( 'steamers complain that their trade is paralysed by the extortions, laziness, and dishonesty of the dockers.

Females are being employed in the hope of detecting Jack the Ripper. Mr Jackson (Financial Secretary to the Treasury), who recently inspected the blighted potato districts of Ireland, has been instructed to make another good inspection. Merino crossbred wool is steady. Other sorts are irregular. The Imperial Parliament meets on November 25.

Lieut-General Kaltenhorn has succeeded General Verdy de Varnois as Prussian Minister of War. A Convention of Parnellites at Dublin command the suspension and nonrecovery of rents on small holdings in the potato-blighted districts. Mr Parnell concurred in this expression of opinion, though not himself present during the debate. The Convention has appointed Messrs Dillon, Brien, O’Connor, Sullivan, and Abraham Gill a deputation to visit America.

Two thousand lightermen have struck at Hull.

At Newport two thousand engineers and boiler-makers have been locked out. A federation of unskilled Labor Unions is projected, embracing one and a quarter million workers, as a counter-blast to the Shipowners’ Society. The bringing of the McKinlay Tariff Bill into operation on Saturday caused a great deal ol excitement throughout the States. Several journals in every European capital denounce the tariff. It is expected that no less than 3000 Birmingham gunmakers will have to be discharged through the Bill.