NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 593, 11 April 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO STASDABD.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The troops stationed in the northern parts of Chili have joined the rebels. The German Garrisons on the Russian frontier are being strengthened. The has been a heavy collapse of Argentine securities, the average fall being £5The Times says that the Government will not attempt to introduce their proposals regarding assisted Education this session.

Last month’s imports show a decrease of ,£887,000, and exports an increase of Zj1.596.040 as compared with the corresponding month of 1890. The Triple Alliance has been renewed for a term of five years. It remains, as before, purely defensive. The police made a raid on the Agra Club, situated in the Strand, London. A hundred of those on the premises were arrested for playing baccarat. The first mail monthly service between China and England by way of Canada has arrived at London. The Dowager Empress Frederick and her daughter the Princess Margaret, who have been on a visit to England, have sailed for Berlin. Sir Graham Berry, Agent-General for \ ictona, has written to the newspapers denying the rumour that the Banks have underwritten any portion of the Victorian loan. It has been arranged to indict a few of the leaders of the recent lynching outrage at New Orleans, on a capital charge. Baron de Fava, the Italian Minister, leaves Washington on Saturday. The agitation in Italy has subsided. The New York Hera’d states that it is not likely reciprocity with Canada will take place under President Harrison’s Government, and that further parleying is neither expected nor desired. During the review of the Guards at St. Petersburg.city a Nihilist was arrested on the stand reserved for tl)e Czar and nobility. He had a revolver and powerful poisoned globule in his pocket. The CZar would have had to pass within a few paces of the man, who fortunately aroused the suspicions of the officials in time to prevent him doing any mischief. After the arrest the Czar returned to the palace at Gatschina. It is now considered certain that Mr Quinton, Chief Commissioner of Assam, Mr Greenwood, British Resident at Manipur, Colonel Skeet, Lieutenant Simpson, Messrs Constin and Melville have been massacred owing to the instructions issued by Quinton disclosing the hostility of the Marquis of Lansdown, Viceory of India, towards the usurper Jobraje. A report has reached Calcutta that Mr Quinton has been beheaded.