BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 546, 18 December 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The cost of aiming volunteers at Delagoa Bay is being defrayed by a national committee in Lisbon. The New United Ireland has been suppressed, but the United Ireland is published as usual. Columbia has extended the Panama Canal Company concession. Mr Healy declares that Mr Parnell is trying to destroy the green flag of Ireland, and replace it by Mrs O’Shea’s petticoats, emblazoned “ escaped 1” He further states that Parnell, in 1886, forced Captain O’Shea into the House of Commons, as Member for Galway, at the price of his wife’s shame. Sir John Pope Hennessy and Sir Vincent Scully are the only candidates nominated for Kilkenny North seat.

Messrs Dillon and O’Connor have issued a manifesto urging that the Tenant Funds should be disbursed apart from the question of politics. The Catholic congregation at Killdysart, County Clare, quitted the Church when Parnell was denounced from the pulpit.

The conference on the Behring Sea Fishery dispute has ended in failure.

Prince Albert Victor has been installed Grand Master of the Berkshire Masons. Lord Carringtojl assisted at the ceremony. A deputation of the Agents-General will ask Lord Salisbury to urge upon Government the desirableness of granting a subsidy for the carriage of mails between Vancouver Island and Australia. Dr Colville, of Paris, who has been investigating Dr Koch’s consumptive cure, considers it produces fever, and that its potency is terrible. Dr Gerhardt, of Berlin, instances a case where the patient's lungs and larynx became so Inflamed that tracheotomy had to be resorted to. The method, he thinks, is capricious in its action, and years Wilt elapse before a radical cure of patients is effected. Reports of medical gentlemen from London, Ney York, and Rome, who have been enquiring into the cure, are favorable to Dr Koch’s treatment.