NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 553, 6 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[by EtEOTBIO TKLEC.RAPH—SPECIAL TO STAMIABD.] BRITISH ANT)~FOREIGN. One hundred thousand tons of shipping is laid up in English ports on account of the demands of Labor. The big railway strike in Scotland is by no means settled yet, though the masters claim that it has collapsed. Delegates from the Australasian colonies are invited to attend a Postal Conference at Vienna on May 20th. It is stated that a treaty between Portugal and England is now nearly com • pleted. By an explosion in Silesia, Germany, thirteen miners were killed, and over thirty entombed. The British Ambassador has informed the United States Secretary of State that the attempted seizure of British vessels in the Behring Sea will be at once forcibly resisted. Three hundred Postal and Savings Banks clerks in London have been suspended owing to their refusal to work overtime. Canterbury mutton in London is at gd, Wellington ditto at 3?fd ; New Zealand beef, forequarters 4)2d, hindquarters 4c. The market is depressed. A fire which gutted a New York theatre after a performance had been concluded, caused damage to the extent of half a million dolllars. Troops are now pouring into the districts affected by the Indian rising. Particulars state that one regiment of cavalry was surrounded by a greatly superior force of Indians. A terrible routing of the flower of the army was prevented by the timely arrival of another regiment of cavalry. Lord Euston is seriously ill. Viscount Lambington’s Hampshire Mansion has been gutted by fire, and a number of priceless works of art des* troyed. It is officially announced that the French conversion loan of 86g^oo 4 eoo francs will be issued on the loth inst. COLONIAL_TELRGRAMS. AUCKLAND. Last night. The sale at the New Zealand Stud Cam. pany'e breeding eatabllehment at'raoted ov*r 8000 persona to Sylvia Park to-day, Thera was brisk bidding. The total amount realised for the stud was 22,029 guineas. The four stallions brought 6,530 guineas, brood mares and foals 9 260 guineas, and yesrlinge 6.249 guineas. Mr William May, of Sydney, anting for Mr Samuel Hordern, was the principal buyer. He secured Norden, feldt for 5600 guineas Dr Ross, of San Francisco, started at 4000 guineas, and rapidly bidding rose to 6000 guineas. Mr J. Crozier, of Melbourne, retired at 5500 guineas, and the Auckland syndicate when 4500 guineas had been offered. Mr Wilson, of Broken Hill fame, and proprietor of the St Alban stud, was also a large purchaser. Mr Thomas Morrin secured Hotchkiss for 355 guineas, and St. Leger was knocked down to Mr L. D Nathan for 475 guineas, while Fasilado became the property of Mr Rathbone, of Napier, for 17aguineis. Tir> Alameda, which arrived to-day San Francisco, was a day late owing to tbe loss ot a blade 0! her propeller.

Larry paid the big dividend of £6B at th* trotting meeting on Thunday. Mrs Watson walked over the 0-iahunga wharf with her children, in the dark, on Saturday night, and her husband, not knowing who was in the water, and although nuable to swim, jumped in and saved her. The taking of evidence in the WhitakerHutchinson case commences before the Commissioners to-morrow. A petition has been lodged on behalf of Colonel Fraser, as'iing for an enquiry into the circumstances of the late election for Te Aroha. The petition alleges excessive bribery and corrupt praatioes. Amongst a consignment of fruit from Sydney there were six casts 0! apples bearing signs of tbe grub of the oodlin moth. The Customs authorities ordered the oases to ba isolated. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. A big fire occurred at Nelson on Saturday. Mr Cooke, bouse deoorator. estimates his loss above insurance at £l5OO, and Mr Moors, owner of a large building, sets down his loss over insurance at £6OO. The recent strike has not affected the public revenua nearly so much as was at first feared. Mr H. Marsden, formerly representative of the Lake Wakatipu in Parliament, died thia morning. A chemist at Palmerston North, n>med Williams, was found dead in bad yesterday. As he was known to be in the habit of taking morphia it is supposed this had something to do with it.