NEWS OF THE WORLD.
[by electric telegraph—special to STANDARD.] BRITISH AND FOREIGNThere are ninety thousand unetnp'oyed in the East End of London. The Mormons have secured vast tracts of country in Mexico. Traffic in London is paralysed owine to the worst fog known for years. The money market is unlikely to be favorable for colonial borrowing until March or April. Dr Kurgenven, an English surgeon, claims to have discovered a method of treating scarlet fever with eucalyptus oil. Fourteen thousand Poles employed on Russian railways have been dismissed. Butter, ex Aorangi fiom N.Z., is selling from toBs to 112 s per cwt. ; cheese, £2. It is reported that President Harrison will ask Congress for warships to capture marauders in the Behring Sea. Mr Blaine, Secretary of State, and Mr Julian Pauncefoot, British Ambassador, are quarrelling over the fisheries question. Twelve girls returning home from confirmation service have been drowned in a lake in Eastern Holstein, owing to the ice breaking. By an explosion at Taiping three hundred Chinese were killed, and a thousand houses destroyed.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 549, 25 December 1890, Page 2
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175NEWS OF THE WORLD. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 549, 25 December 1890, Page 2
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