NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 616, 4 June 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Mr Parneli will marry Mrs O’Shea next week. The French Chamber of Deputies has decided to admit raw hides free of duty. Marshall Fonseca, Chief of the Argen. tine Republican Government, is dangerously ill. The R.M.S. Arcadia, which got ashore in the Suez Canal, has been floated off uninjured. There is much sickness among the troops in Manipur. Forty deaths have occurred in the detachment of the 6oth

Rifles, numbering only 200. There has been another run on the Banks at Buenos Ayres. Gold is at a , premium of 323. _ j Turkish robbers have derailed a train • and seized a number of English and , German tourists. The German Foreign Office has consented to pay a ransom of 1 200,000 francs. Paris bondholders in the Panama canal < have resolved to urge the French Government to use its influence to assist in completing the work. The grain crops in Russia are in a critical condition, and some alarm has been occasioned throughout France at the shortness of the wheat and flour supply. Mr Justin McCarthy has decided not to agitate for the release of Messrs

Dillon and O’Brien. ..... The Portuguese authorities in Massikesse have ordered all Europeans except Portuguese to quit the country. The export to the Australasian colonies is brisker than it has been for years, and the dock sheds are chocked with goods. The aggregate tonnage in London waiting for cargoes is 80,000. _ Algeria has been visited by serious locust plagues, and everything green has

been eaten up. The Bulgarian Government has ordered forty thousand of the Austrian Manlicker repeating rifles from Vienna. They are to be delivered by September. _ The Jewish doctors in the Russian army have been informed that they must either adopt the orthodox faith, or resign their positions, and it has been decided not to permit them further admission to the array. ~ A society has been established at Odessa for the purpose of assisting Jews who have been ordered to quit the country to emigrate to Great Britain. It is estimated that sixty thousand Jews will be landed m Great Britain in the autumn. . , Owing to the severe illness of Sir John MacDonald, the veteran Premier, the Dominion Parliament has adjourned. The medical advisers of Sir John MacDonald report that he has only a few hours to live. Bolivia offered to assist the Chilian rebels on condition that its debt to Chili is cancelled. The Chilian insurgents have been successful in the action brought in the French Courts to restrain delivery of several warships built in France to the order of the Chilian Government, until such time as a settled Government is formed in the Republic. THE BACCARAT SCANDAL. When the trial of the notorious baccarrat case began the Court was crowded with members of the aristocratic classes, among whom was the Prince of Wales. Sir W. Gordon-Cumming, the plaintiff, was examined. He denied the allegation that he was cheating, but admitted having signed a document undertaking not to touch a card for the rest of his life, which he explained was done in order to prevent a scandal. In cross-examination Sir GordonCumming admitted having won from the Prince of Wales. He had never sought to confront his accusers, because his friends had failed to suggest that that was advisable. On the second night, the 9th September, they were playing, the Prince of Wales, he remembered, expressed a wish that the players would exhibit their stakes clearly. Witness now believed that the advice given him to sign the declaration of guilt was extremely bad. The Prince of Wales and two of his friends, Lord Coventry and General Owen Williams, had written to him jointly that in the face of the overwhelming evidence it was useless for him to deny his guilt. . The plaintiff proposes to call the Prince of Wales as a witness. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last night. Madame Patey concluded a splendid season to-night, and leaves for Gisborne to-morrow. The prosecution of Collins, the manager 01 the Huntiy Coal Mine, where the recent disaster took place, resulted in a £2O fine, but the case will cost him over £l5O. Two teams of female footballers are being organised to tour the colonies. Ths promoter of the scheme is Raymond Webbe, formerly a theatrical agent, and more recently known as the moving spirit in an auction share exchange. r _ . .... At tha City East Licensing meeting to day, a number of the licensees ware cautioned for Sunday trading, which they denied. Notice was given that the Provincial Hotel would not be required, and would be closed at the next meeting, while the Britomart Hotel is to be rebuilt. . There is likely to be a compromise in tha boot strike. Tha Manufaeturers’ Association insist on retaining in their employment all free labor and apprentices at present engaged, and thia being agreed to by the . Union some arrangement may be arrived at in regard to the main point in dispute by means of a conference. Wi Hakepa, a native, was charged at the Supreme Court with the crime of perjury, alleged to have been committed during his evidence in a charge of shooting a bull, preferred against Joseph Warbrick. He was acquitted. Brabazon O'Halloran, who pleaded guilty to five charges of embezzlement of public funds, while he was postmaster at Wbangarei, came up for sentence at tho Supreme Court this morning, and was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude. A singular deadlock has occurred at the Thames Licensing Court. The Native Aseessor on the Bench insisted on closing two hotels kept by Europeans in the district, leaving the monopoly to a native hotelkeeper. The European Commissioners declare, they will close all the hotels if ths objection is insisted on. The Court adjourned for a fortnight to see if any arrangement can be made, SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The lonic, which was supposed to be missing, left Bio on the 26ih, so that at the latest advices the was all right. The Government are introducing legislation to provide for village setttlements for Maoris. Coleman Phillips, charged at Wellington with dummyism, is applying for a special jury, and ths Drown opposes.

The Governor has left Wellington for Pahiatua, near Featherston, to enjoy a few days' shooting. Latest advices received by tho German Consul at Wellington, state that the Gorman Pacific Squadron have left Hong Kong for Chilian waters, to protect German interests during the revolution. Government is buying up large tracts of land on the West Coast and other parts of the North Island, and Mr Butler, a native land purchaser, is now negotiating for the Pobinui-Otane block, of 20,000 acres, in the Rangitikei district. At Featherstone (Wellington) the police have reported unfavorably of the manner in which all the hotels in the Borough had been conducted, and the Chairman of the Licensing Committee said if houses ware not better conducted during the next twelve months they would bo closed if it is within the law. Mr T. Duncan, M.H.R., was presented with a purse of 150 sovereigns last night at Oamaru, in the pub io hall. There was a crowded attendance.