NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 558, 17 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

(BY ELECTRIC TEI.BORAPH—SPECIAL TO STANDABD.) BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A hundred mechanics will accompany General Booth on his visit to Australia in September. The Duke of Bedford, and Millet, the famous sculptor, are dead. Unionists in France are beginning an active agitation for the eight hours system. It is expected that Canada will withdraw the appeal against the seizure of sealers. Some of the members of the United States House are very indignarf at such an appeal being made. A motion of annulment had been made in the American Courts by Canada, at the in. stance of the British Government, with a view to settling the Behring Sea dispute. The seizure referred to was made in 1887. Several of the leading Indian chiefs have surrendered. The night before the big French loan was floated, crowds of people congregati d round the doors of the office of the Minister of Finance. The loan was com d six times in London, and sixteen and a half tunes in Paris. America is demanding repaiation from the Spanish Government for outrages committed by the natives on Americans in the Caroline Islands. By a collision on the New York elevated railway, an engine was thrown into the street. Experiments are being made in different parts of the United States to test the feasibility of producing rain at will by the explosion of dynamite among the clouds. General Booth has increased the sum which he considers necessary to have in hand from £lOO,OOO to£t3o,ooo ; and he also asks that the whole of the sum for the purposes of the projected colony shall be placed entirely under his control. At a meeting in Limerick, Mr Parnell challenged Mr Gladstone to produce the memorandum of the interview with him at Hawarden. He declared that the Liberal leaders had no land policy, and that a fatal mistake had bean committed in allowing the Radicals to abandon the peasant proprietary clause in the Irish Land Purchase Bill, thus leaving the Irish people to their own fate and the solution ol the difficulty. Of late he himself believed that the land question ought to be settled concurrently with Home Rule, or left to an Irish Parliament to deal with, otherwise it would be impossible to govern Ireland without stringent and strong coercion. Without a settlement of the land question, Home Rule, instead of becoming a source of strength and freedom, would be a sham, ending in the resumption of Government by the Imperial Parliament. Referring to the proposals submitted at the Hawarden interview, he considered them distinctly worse than the provisions in the Bill introduced by Mr Gladstone in 1886, for the future government of Ireland.