NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 624, 23 June 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The strike of Jewish tailors in London has collapsed. It is denied that the Prince of Wales was concerned in the election of Arthur Wilson as a member of the Marlborough Club. ’ ... Louis Tussaud’s famous exhibition has been destroyed by fire. The first section of the Manchester ship canal, commenced in November 1887, has just been opened. Feeling in London is disturbed owing to Christobel de Murrieta and Company, a South American and Spanish firm of merchants, making an unexpected demand of .£40,000 upon the guarantors. Mr Buxton’s amendment prohibiting children under eleven being employed in workshops was carried against the Government by a majority of 16. Despite the President’s veto the Argentine Senate and Chamber insist on the suspension of gold payments. The census returns of Scotland show the total population to be 4,033,000, and the population of the City of Glasgow to be 792,000. The Government of Chili has awarded £30,000 to the commanders of the cruisers which sank the Blanco Esmalda. The Chamber of Deputies has authorised President Balmaceda to levy a forced loan of 20,000,000 dollars for war purposes. The theatres in Santiago are closed and carriages are not allowed to drive about the streets after midnight. The English Federation League intend to accept Lord Salisbury’s challenge to formulate a scheme for the federation of the Empire. The French Chamber of Deputies has approved of the reduction of duties under the new tariff which comes into operation on July loth. The Commission of Cardinals will henceforth administer the Papal property at Rome, owing to irregularities of the management in the past. The Tipperary police have levied on Dillon and O’Brien’s sureties, whose recognisances were estreated when those gentlemen escaped to America. Premier Abbott, of Canada; has announced that the policy of the new Government will strictly follow the lines laid down by the late Sir J. MacDonald.

The Russian Government is appointing special agents at seaports to prevent merchants defrauding British buyers of wheat, as to quality and quantity. The new Portuguese Budget proposes drastic reforms. The staff is to be reduced, and the construction of costly works suspended. It also creates monopolies in matches and alcohol. Rioting at Fournies, France, where several people were shot by the troops at the beginning of last month, is being renewed, the workmen displaying hostility to the authorities.

Of the total of £[127.000 subscribed towards the Plan of Campaign it is stated that £[3ooo is unaccounted for. Twenty thousand was granted to the tenants, forty-five thousand went in fees to lawyers, and forty thousand was spent on New Tipperary. London market cablegram, per L. and M. Co., dated 19th June Tallow : Tallow is dull of sale ; fine mutton tallow is worth 27s 3d per cwt.; good beef, 25s 9<i. Frozen meat : Mutton market unchanged. Lamb market weaker ; prime N. lambs are worth, per carcase, 3d per lb. Beef market quiet ; N.Z. beef, hindquarters, is worth Jd per lb, nominal value. Other quotations unchanged since last telegram. AUSTRALIAN. The third batch of elections was held at Sydney on Saturday. The state of parties at present is— Ministerialists 37 Opposition 19 Labor 21 Independent 4 All the Ministers have been re-elected except Mr Q’Connor, the PostmasterGeneral, who announces that he will contest the Monaro constituency (two seats), the election for which takes place on the 30th inst. Mr Dibbs, leader of the Opposition, who was defeated in South Sydney election, will contest the Murrumbidgee (three seats) on June 29NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last night. The missing barquantine Hands Isle has arrived. Dudley, a footballer, broke his leg while playing at the Thames, The case of Webbe v Bae, olaiming £l5OO

for alleged false imprisonment, broke down in the Supreme Court. The Ponsonby club won the senior football oup, and the Native Rose the junior. Mr McOullough, proprietor ot the Thames Star, is canvassing the electorate. The schooner Waiapu leaves tor Gisborne on Wednesday, in place of the schooner Gisborne. The Onehunga Iron Works are now in full owing again. News comes from the Islands o£ the wreck of the schooner Vanderbilt, Captain Peltz. Mr McGregor's house at Onehunga, has been burnt dawn. News from Puhipuhl states that the Prospectors’ Company have cleaned up 25 tons for lOSoze retorted silver, supposed to be equal to 5s 9d per ounce. The tailings have been saved for further treatment.

The boot operatives have held a meeting, and discussed the strike. It was unanimously decided nob to give in. They received £lOO from Adelaide on Saturday. The Ministers’ Union here discussed the question of Church Union today, and appointed a Committee to go into the details of Church co-operation.

SOUTHERN NEWSLast night. Moss Levy, storekeeper of Hokitika, has been committed fortrial on three informations charging him with fraudulent bankruptcy. At the annual meeting of the South Canterbury Joekoy Club, a resolution was passed, asking the members of the district, Messrs Hall-Jones, Steward, and Rhodes, to take action against the proposed tax on the totalisator. Captain Power, of the ship Turakina, died in London, from influenza. Mr Ballance has promised, as far as possible, to bring the amendments of the Municipal Conference into lap. Mr Warburton, who was appointed Deputy Public Trustee, will succeed Mr Haiuerton as Public Trustee. The adjourned meeting of the Sydenham Licensing Committee was held tc-iay. The Committee granted ten o'clock licenses to the Club Hotel, under protest, pending the decision of the Court ot Appeal as to their powers. The decision in the two other oases were held over until the whole of tha applications are heard. One publican’s and two bottle licenses have been forfeited in Dunedin through failtura to pay the fees. The Licensed Victuallers’ Conference opened at Wellington this morning, but only formal business was transacted. The proceedings ware not open to the press. Geer twenty delegates wore present.

Mr McQueen, who has been a clerk in Level’s estate of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company for many years, was thrown from his horse, and killed, 011 the Waehdyke road, Timaru, on Saturday night. Jeremiah Trim was awarded £4O in tbe suit at Invercargill for damages for the road accident brought against the Wallace County. The claim was for £2,025. It is not likely that Trim will ever be able to work again.