NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 571, 17 February 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN

General Sherman is dead. The American Copyright Bill has been laid aside by the Senate. The Italian Premier promises retrenchment to the extent of £1,600,000 annually. The Daily News predicts the breaking up of Parnellism. Messrs Dillon and O’Brien, who serve their sentence in Clomnell gaol, met with a poor reception in Dublin.

The Kaikoura, from New Zealand, reached London on Friday. The Monowai, with the ’Frisco mails, returned to ’Frisco with a broken propellor, and cannot leave again till the 22nd.

It is reported that the towns of Pisaque and Iquique have been bombarded by insurgents, and that they are now in flames. The blockade of Valparaiso has been raised.

A man believed to be “Jack the Ripper ” has been arrested on a charge of having committed the murder of a woman in Whitechapel district. Accused was previously seen in company with the murdered woman, and there is a quantity of blood on his clothes.

It is reported that on the expiry of Lord Charles Scott’s commission as Admiral of the Australian station, he will be succeeded by Admiral Stephenson, in H.M.S. Blake, 12 guns, with Prince George of Wales, as commander. The New Zealand Government have announced the conversion of the remaining stocks on which a high rate of interest is being paid into per cents, to be carried on fiari passu with existing loans. The conversions are £491,100 6 per cents, redeemable in 1891, £64,500 5 per cents redeemable in 1893, and £313,800 of old provincial loans redeemable between 1893 and 1916. President Harrison received a deputation from the Indian tribes who were concerned in the recent rising. The Indians {declared to President Harrison that women and children were shot down by the troops after a flag of truce had been hoisted, and that children were butchered after assurances were given by the officers commanding the troops that their lives would be spared. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. Last night. Endeavors are being made to arrange a coastal sohooner race in wbiah ths Gisborne traders would take part. A number of gentlemen left to-night to attend the opening of the first public battery at Kuaotuuu to-morrow. Mr Cowper has retired from the proprietorship of the Thames Advertiser, wbioh for the future will be carried on by Mr Christie. Mr Cowper goes to Australia. Flogging for fruit stealing is an every day occurrence here, and to-day the Magistrate ordered the whipping of a youth of sixteen for this offence, though whipping is illegal above the age of 14. The Hospital enquiry is still going on, and a great deal of evidence is being taken. The testimony is of a very conflicting character. Mr Hyatt’s house at Onehunga'was burnt down this morning. The Magistrate ordered an extradition warrant to issue in the case of Kurtz, a tailor, said to be a Victorian bookmaker. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last right. An extraordinary Gazette further prorogues Parliament from February 27 to Thurs day, April 9th, The Wanganui Harbor Board’s steam dredge is adrift in Cook's Straits, and masters of vessels are warned to keep a look nut. At the swimming tournament at Dunedin W. Crowe, of Dunedin, won the 100 yd and 400 yd championsips, Bines, of Auckland, being second. The body of a man named Donald Cameron was found in Dunedin harbor on Saturday afternoon • he had left homo in the morning for a walk and was not again seen alive.

An old man named George Flowers, of Reefton, died on Saturday, through taking a drink of sulphuric acid iu mistake for ginger ale.

The body of Margaret Thompson, who was well known to the polios, was found in the river Avon, Christchurch, yesterday morning. Dr Elmslie, of Christchurch, has been elected Moderator of the Canterbury Assembly. A conference between the Federated Bootmakers’ Union of the colony and the employers commenced at Wellington to-day. Each side is confident of winning the election at Hawera. Mr McKenzie, Minister of Lands, spoke at Manaia on Saturday evening in support of Mr McGuire, and Messrs Hutchinson and Smith in the same interest at Inglewood. Mr Seddou arrived in Hawera on Saturday, and speaks to-night. Messrs Hutchinson and Smith will hold a meeting at Strafford to-night, and Mr McKenzie has the Waimata Plains as far as Opunake. Mr Bruce had a good meeting at Hawera on Saturday evening, and there was a sympathetic audience. He complained very bitterly of the tactics of Ministers in rushing up and down the district, working and speaking and making promises against him. Ho stated that they had so arranged their meetings as to shut him out of all opportunity of replying to their speeches, Mr Henry Bunny, the wellknown politician, shot himself dead in the Town Board office at Featherston yesterday. The only particulars known so far are that Bunny had refreshments in the hotel yesterday morning, and then borrowed the key of tha Council Chambers, sat in the chair, and shot himself through the stomach, Au inquest is going on. A revolver was used and death was instantaneous. Mr Bunny had been in a desponding state in consequence of his defeat at the general election, and he alsn keenly felt the death of his old chief, Sir W. Fitzherbert.

The L’nion Company have issued an ultimatum to the Seamen and Firemen’s Union, in which the manager, Mr Mills, says :—“So satisfied are we that Union men are creating mischief, and by various means compelling free men, unwilling in many cases, to join the Union, that until a better understanding is arrived at, we now feel compelled to give instructions that no further vacancies are to be filled up by men belonging to the Seamen and Firemen’s Union as it at present exists.”