NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 618, 9 June 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Rev. Hermann Adler has been ap pointed Chief Rabbi. The census for London and suburbs shows the population to be 5,633,000. The Rev. Mr Bury, of Wolverhampton, intends to visit New Zealand for the benefit of his health. The British Consul of Diban, a port of the Baltic Sea, has warned the refugee jews not to emigrate to England, as there is very little prospect of their obtaining any employment. A number of Jews are emigrating to Australia. The Prussian Lower House has restored the Romish stipends which were sequestrated during the Kulhirkampf struggle. The committee of the Cortes has recommended that the Anglo-Portuguese Convention be ratified. The House of Commons of Canada, by a majority of 32, rejected the proposal to introduce the one man one vote system.

In the House of Commons, Baron De Worms stated that the Boer expedition to Mashonaland has been abandoned.

Three of the Argentine Banks which closed during the height of the financial crisis, have re-opened. The French Press are very bitter against England, owing to virtual admission made to the effect that the Marquis of Salisbury had agreed that Great Britain would protect Italy in the event of a French naval attack.

During the month the English imports increased by £1,037,000, while the exports decreased by £3,196,000. Since tenders closed for the Queensland loan, only £3OO has been subscribed. Evidence in the baccarat case has been concluded, and the case adjourned till Monday. In a violent thunderstorm at Vienna 12 persons and many animals were killed, and the crops and fruit trees greatly damaged. The Chilian rebel cruiser Magellan has sunk the President’s torpedo vessel Guaconda. Both sides have now agreed to accept the offers of the United States and France to mediate in the present struggle.

A conspiracy has been discovered, involving thousands of students of all the Russian Universities, aiming ata peaceful reform of the absolutist system of government, with the view of substituting a system of national liberty and religious equality. The British Government is anxious to restrict the influx of foreign emigrants into England, but doubts if any practical good would result from action being taken. The bankers have resolved that at present it is not imperative to fix a minimum rate of discount, though it is expedient to combine with the Bank of England in dealing with matters. Nearly all the employees of the London General Omnibus and the Royal Car Companies struck at midnight on Saturday, for 12 hours per day and an increase of wages. During his visit to the United States, Sir C. Tupper asked Mr Blaine to extend to Canada the same reciprocity as it was proposed to extend to Newfoundland. Mr Blaine made no definite promise, but it is considered to bo of a conciliatory nature, By a majority of 25 the House of Commons rejected a motion of censure on Sir C. Tupper, for the active part he took in the Canadian elections,