BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 529, 8 November 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The French Customs Committee have by a large majority, approved of the principled a double'tariff O’Connor, the sculler, at . New York pronounces Stansb'ury~to be a much stronger and faster man than Kemp. Aparty of Japanese at Thursday Islaad have drawn Carbine in one of the large consultations in Sydney, and they won -Cardinal Manning has written a letter of sympathy to General Booth, in which he says that everyone is entitled to work for his Head. The English shipping trade federation have a membership of 600,000. It is proposed to make a weekly levy of jjd to provide a fighting fund. The London Daily Chronicle, in an article on the now Cabinet of Victoria, .considers that Mr Munro has succeeded in forming a strong Government. Messrs Difloh ail'd O'Brien have met with cool receptions in many parts of the States. Sir J. McDonald, Premier of Canada, declines meddling with Messrs O'Brien and Diilon qn the question of provincial law. A syndicate has been formed in London to fake up the butter Churn invented by Mr Walter Cole, formerly of Wellington, N.Z., and which was awarded a gold medal at the Islington Dairy Show. An expedition t6' Lagoa, on the Slave CogstpWest Africa, fitted out by Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, starts from London on Saturday. Corfimander V. L. Cameron will have charge of the The New York Press is jubilant at the result of the United States elections, which they ascribed to the McKinley tariff. Major’McKinley was defeated for Ohio by 200 votes. The Democratic majority in the house is variously estimated at from 78 to 97. The Republicans admit that Mr Grover Cleveland will be the next President of the United States. Messages to November 3 state :—The executive of the London Typographical Society advises stoppage of further support to the Australian strike fund.—Mr Mann says the total laying up of vessels would mean social revolution and triumph for foreigners ; it would be impossible to declare war agaitjst half a million workmen and their wives and children.-r The shipowners threaten to organise nonunion labor in all branches of shipping.—Mr Fitzgerald, the colonial delegate, in an interview with a Lloyd's Weekly reporter, accused the colonial shipowners of conspiracy against the men.— Mr Davitt has gone to Dublin to arrange for Mr Fitzgerald's reception there in December.— The London municipal elections resulted in favor of the Liberals.—A Koch Institute for consumptives is being founded in Berlin.—The Marquis of Salisbury is likely to petition the Bankruptcy Court to recover his costs in the libel action against Mr O'Brien.