NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 570, 14 February 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BY BLECTBIC TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO STANDARD.]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

The Koch lymph is now being publicly sold.

Mr Balfour received a remarkable ovation in Dublin.

The wool market is reported firm

The House of Commons have passed the second reading of the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Bill by 47. General Sherman is in a precarious condition.

H.M.S. Curacoa, now at Auckland, has been re-commissioned.

Mr Morley’s Tipperary censure motion will be discussed on Monday. A plot against Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, has been discovered.

Bank of New Zealand new issue shares are quoted at £7 10s in London.

The United States and Newfoundland fisheries dispute has been settled on a reciprocal basis.

All Jews engaged in commerce have been expelled from Nijni Novgorod. Lord Dunraven proposes to invite the colonies to send a delegate to the Trade and Defence Conference.

Twelve hundred Egyptian troops are advancing on Tokar.

Mr Parnell has declared war to the knife against the seceders from his party.

It is reported that Messrs Dillon and O’Brien will come over to Folkestone today, and surrender themselves to the authorities. Sir T. Cummings has resigned his commission in the Guards, pending the result of his action for slander respecting alleged cheating at cards. Mr Parnell has broken off negotiations with Mr Justin McCarthy respecting the leadership of the Irish party. The stevedores have struck work on all Federation owned ships at the Victoria and East and West India Docks, as a protest against the employment of free labor. A conference of the members of older Unions at Cardiff have passed resolutions opposing the claims of seamen and dockers to monopolise work. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. Last night. Sir George Grey has returned from Rotorua in greatly improved health, He attends the Federation Conference. The Thames is making great preparations for the visit from the Governor at the end of next month. The Hospital enquiry has re-opened. Nurse Dickson confirms nurse Aimaboldi in her charges. The steam tug- Awhina has been sold to Newcastle people for £4,300. There has been a heavy downpour of rain during the last two days, but no damage has been done. The tides, too, have been wonderfully high. A company owning a large extent of land in Birkenhead district is willing to subscribe £1,200 towardS"the expense of erecting the proposed bridge-across the harbor, between that district and Ponsonby. The total amount promised is £3,000. Sailed—Mararoa. Passengers for Gisborne : Miss Wright, Messrs Wright and Butler. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The names of Messrs Stout, Whitmore, Rees, and Buckley are all mentioned in connection with the Agent-Generalship. McDermott, imprisoned at Wellington for assaulting a free laborer, was released on appeal, the Chief Justice holding that the decision was contrary to the weight of evidence.

Ths Wanganui Girls’ High School was opened yesterday by the Minister of Education, Messrs Ballance and Bryce also being present. ]i Since the compulsory clauses were put in operation in Invercargill, the attendance at one of the town schools has increased by 100. Mr Whitefoord, R.M. of Kaiapoi (formerly of Gieborne), died to-day, in Dunedin, from apoplexy. He was absent on sick leave. The Monowai, with the English mail of 24th January, left for Auckland on the 7th, two days late. Josiah Jones, J.P., a flour miller at Ophir, Southland, fatally shot himself while getting over a fence, when out rabbit shooting. The Chief Justice dismissed the appeal of Whitaker v. Hutchison, re striking out a reference in the amended defence to the private accounts of Sir Harry Atkineon and Mr Mitchelson ; with ten guineas costs. David Davis, a seaman of the Duke of Sutherland, was struggling at the Wellington railway wharf with a comrade who wanted to get him on board, when he fell overboard and was drowned.

Mr Allen, recently elected for Ta Aroha, was a passenger to Wellington by tho Arawa.

The Trades and Labor Council have decided to submit a proposal to the various Trades Unions for the establishment of a co-operative coal and fuel yard in the city. The Hon, W. J. M. Larnach is mentioned as likely to be one of the Commissioners to enquire into the working of the Public Trust Office.