NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 562, 27 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

fBY electric tklegbavh—special to STAB CARD.] BRITISH AND FOREIGNThe butter market is overstocked and prices have fallen. Professor Hankin claims to have discovered a cure for anthrax, a disease that greatly aftects sheep. The Imperial Government has expressed its willingness to set up a Committee to enquire into the advisableness or otherwise of extending the eight hours system to railway hands. .A. great strike for the eight hours principle in the mining industry is threatened* to take place in May next. The terribly severe weather that has been experienced in Great Britain and on the Continent is now clearing up. Madame Nillie Melba, the Australian prima donna, is meeting with tremendous success in St. Petersburg. Her acting of the part of Juliet has created a great furore* and the lady has been singled out for notice by the Czar. By a dreadful colliery explosion at Westphalia, Germany, sixty persons have been killed and over forty others injured.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

At the Welliogton races Cynisca easily won the Racing Ciub’s Handicap, Prime Maiden second, B mlanger third. The Metropolitan Handicap was won by Boulanger, Ruby second, St Malo third. During the two days a sum of £17,138 was put through the totalizator. The Wellington Council has decided to invite a conference of representatives from other municipal bodies. There was great interest taken in the yacht race at Wellington on Saturday afternoon. The Lyttelton yacht Mascott beat the Wellington yacht Nima by 12 seconds. The Auckland yacht Marirana was third. The Insurance Companies threaten to withdraw from Keefton unless the insulation switches of tbe electric light are made safe. A meeting is to be held to discuss the formation of a local insurance company. A sailor named Paul Bryant was killed by falling off the Lyttelton train. At Cambridge a sailor who had been drunk was found suffocated in a garden attached to an hotel.