BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 519, 16 October 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Professor Sellers is dead. Siegar Krauiz, the new Chief Justice of Samoa, is a Swedish Jurist. The sculler O’Connor has gone to Canada.

Harold Rogers, professor of political economy, is dead.

It is considered unlikely that Messrs O'Brien and Dillon have sailed for the States.

There is a surplus on the Mining Exhibition.

Affairs at the Swiss town of Ticino ale becoming quieter.

The cargo ship Wellington, which has been tn collision, was not injured. Ihe Rimutaka left Capetown for New Zealand on Monday. The Engineers’ Society have made a sixpenny levy to assist the Australians. The Times is amazed at the magnitude of the strikes. .kJ.

The Dockers’ Committee are now engaging a hundred permanent nonunion hands at 245.

The Portuguese Press is urging the populace to attack British residents. A Socialist Congress, chiefly attended by Germans, is proceeding at Halle, in Saxony.

Five girls and a man were killed, and many injured, during a fire in a Smithfield hat factory. The Caroline Islands natives killed one officer and 27 men of the Spanish expedition sent to punish them for outrages.