NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 573, 21 February 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO STANDARD.]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

King Kalakaua’s remains have reached Honolulu, and Princess Lilliuokalani has been proclaimed ruler. General Sherman’s remains will be interred at St. Louis with great pomp. Saddler, the fireman arrested on a charge of murder, is strongly believed by tbe public to be “Jack the Ripper.” Butchers were discharging the Matatua’s cargo of New Zealand frozen mutton under strong police protection. Queen Victoria will remain at Gresse, in the South of France, till the end of March. The strikers at Cardiff are being forced to return to work owing to the want of money. The Chilian rebels are triumphing all along the line, and are now marching on Santiago. The World declares Emperor William’s irritability due to cancer in the ear and throat. It is denied that Admiral Stephenson will succeed Admiral Scott.

Mr Chauncey Depero has been nominated as Governor of New York.

A boom carrying four millian logs threatens the safety of Johnstown. Mr Parnell presides ot a banquet of Irishmen in London on St. Patrick’s Day. The block in the Thames is increasing. Owners of vessels have offered the Dock Companies to provide shelter for free laborers.

Egyptian finances show a surplus of half a million for the year. Dr Lubrick claims to have discovered a cure for tuberculosis superior to Dr Koch’s. It can be injected under the skin, does not induce fever, and its effects are harmless.

The wool market continues firm, and bidding is spirited. Members of the Liberal Party have made a donation of /jjooo to help antiParnellites, and promise to assist in paying their election expenses. Shipowners in Liverpool, with an aggregate of 750,000 tons, are joining the Shipping Federation. The quality of the cheese landed from the Ruapehu is irregular, and some very inferior are realising from 46s to 48s per cwt. The Monowai, which had to return to 'Frisco owing to an accident to her machinery, will resume her voyage to Auckland on the 22nd. Unfounded fears that difficulty would be experienced in discharging the cargo of frozen meat by the MatatUa caused New Zealand mutton to rise one farthing in London.

Prince Bismarck is suspected of organising Parliamentary opposition towards the German Government. The Federal Council decided not to prosecute him for his recent utterances, and will only refute the attacks made by him in the German Press.

Sir W. Cumming has denied the charge of cheating, but the Priuce of Wales has replied that there was ample evidence against him. The Guards’ Club have convened a meeting to consider the Cumming cardcheating charges. [Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming is a major and lieut.colonel in the Scots’ Guards ; served in the South African War of 1879, Egyptian campaign of 188.1, and in the camel corps of the Nile expedition of 1884 ; is 42 years of age, unmarried. The family motto is “ Without fear.” The African traveller known as “ the lion-hunter " is a member of the house of which Sir William is the head.]