NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 583, 17 March 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mr O’Brien, M.P., has been declared a bankrupt on the petition of the Marquis of Salisbury. The bank at Monte Cailo lost 1,000,000 francs on Thursday. A group of Englishmen playing at one table won 700,000 francs, and the bank was broken three times in succession.

The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend and bonus of 14 per cent., and carried forward .£15,000 The reduction in the cable rates to the colonies will come into operation on April Ist.

The French are erecting additional large factories on the shores of Port au Prince, and Port Bay, and their action is causing great irritation amongst the residents in all parts of the island.

The British Government has guaranteed a railway loan of ,£2,000,000 for carrying on certain railway works in Newfoundland.

The Societe Depots Comptes Courants is in difficulties, owing to the financial ciisis in the Argentine Republic, and goes into liquidation. M. Rouvier, Minister of Finance, has requested the Bank of France to advance 60,000,000 francs, pending a joint guarantee from the various Banks.

A Wood Paving Company in Paris has suspended payment. The liabilities amount to about 3,000,000 francs.

The strike of dockers, stevedores, coal heavers, etc., at Plymouth, has collapsed. Numerous additional deaths are reported by sea and land, and the effects of the snow blizzard in England are being severely felt by certain classes of the population. Owing to the severity of the weather all work in the mines in Rhondda Valley, Wales, has been stopped, throwing 25,000 people out of employment. Railway communication between London and Exeter has been restored. The southern Counties have suffered the most severely from the effects of the snowstorms, and the Counties of Devon and Cornwall have been completely isolated for several days. The snow fall is the heaviest known for fifty years. Railway and telegraph communication is interrupted in all directions, and work on many of the lines has been suspended altogether. Pitiful news comes from all directions ; the death list exceeds over too on the sea alone, and fresh records increase the list every day. There has also been great privation, with enormous destruction of property.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. Last night. Heavy rain ia falling to-night, and the prospects of the weather for the Roman Catholic fate and the various eports tomorrow are not very bright, The Rev. James Chew has been re-elected President, and the Rev. Mr Ccx secretary, of the Mioistere’ Association. The civil business of the Supreme Court baa been adiourned until Friday next. The cargo steamer Namari arrived to-day to load frozen mutton for Home. Mr Morrison has won the lawn tennis championship of Auckland, Mr Goodhue being second. Dr Giles refused to grant the release of Kurtz and Brenner, held for extradition warrant, and allowed further remands. It is impossible yet to say when the libel cases from Opoliki will be completed. Letters from America confirm the previous statements that the well-known Desmond's pamphlet, ” Christ as a Social Befarmer,” is a plagiarism. Ths Bright Smile mine, owned in Sydney,’ was sold at the Thames to-day, on a judgment for wages, for £95. A telegram from Kamo states that amther rich seam of chloride of silver has been struck in tho Young Colonial mine at Puhipuhi. South British Insurance shares, which spurted in the last week or two, have receded somewhat, owing probably to the loes at the Dunedin fire. There were sellers to-day at, 29s 6J, and no buyers. Tho Governor and party left by the 8 35 train from Auckland. The party consisted of the Governor, Lady Onslow, Lady Charles Scott, Miss Gardner, Captain Guthrie Wallron<l, the Hon. Mr Cadman, and Mr Lewis (Under Secretary for Native Affairs). The ladies will not go beyond Rotorua, but will there await the return of the party. The Hon. Mr Buckley, Mrs Buckley, and Mrs Fitzherbert, who have been on a visit to Te Aroha, are expected to join the party at Morrinsville this afternoon, and proceed to Rotorua. At Rotorua Hia Excellency will be joined by Mr Faller and Lord Ancrum, who will probably accompany the party on the journey to the Urewera country. Mr Kelly, M.H.R. for the East Coast, is also expected to join the party there, and Mr Busb, R. M. of Tauranga, who is to act as interpreter, will be picked up later on. From Rotorua the party will have to rely solely upon horses. There is some uncertainty as to what kind of a reception the Governor and party will have, owing to a report which has been circulated at Rotorua, to the eff tot that the natives are inclined to restrict the number of the party, with a view to exclude any who may be suspected of being gold prospectors, surveyors or others intent on spying out the country. It ia understood that the parly will bi met by a large number 0! natives on the way to Bualoki, and escorted there, this being the place aeleoted tor the meeting. Te Kooti is understood 10 be with the Urewera natives, and he is expected to he one of tho principal spokesmen at the meeting. SOUTHERN NEWS.

Laet night. Three hundred unemployed attended a meeting at Dunedin to-day. The Coptic arrived at Wellington this morning from London. The Property Tax Department has issued a large number of summonses tor nonpayment o' the tax.

Me Williim Spurdie, a well known and highly respected resident ot Wanganui,

disappeared late on Saturday night, and a search has failed to discover him.

A decree nisi has bsen granted in re Bailey v. Bailey and Shields, husband's petition for divorce, tor adohery.

The new steamer Tekoa arrived at Wellington from Waiiara last night, A fireman named Williams died on board. A few hours before he Ind been drinking heavily, The Hospital Board hie received notice of a betpest by 11 A. Barker, deceased, and a lain member of the Board, of £2OOO, subject io a lite interest income, with a letter expressing a wish that it be devoted Io the erection and maintenance of a special ward for the treatment of sufferers from septic diseases,

Yesterday afternoon Stephen Frederick Stone, aged 17, a step-son of a fisherman living near Sumner, Christchurch, went out to shoot with two others in a boat, While getting into the boat his gun, an old one, went oft. The charge lodged in his left breast. He is in the Hospital, in a highly dangerous condition.

A well known farmer named William Irving was found dead on the road near Oamaru yesterday. He was last seen riding home and leading a horse, and it is supposed he was nulled out of the saddle by the horse he was leading, and thrown to the ground with violence, as his neck had been broken by the fall.