NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 631, 9 July 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Prices at the wool sale remain unchanged. In the course of his electioneering campaign at Carlow Mr Parnell was assaulted by the mob, and an effigy of Kitty O’Shea was burnt. Over eighty of the cast-iron bridges in and around London require rebuilding to meet the times, says Sir John Fowler. Four thousand additional builders have struck for the eight hours system. A meeting of miners has been held in Durham and also at Heston, demanding eight hours. The French Government has voted a million francs for the purpose of bringing back distressed emigrants from the Argentine. The harvest prospects in Europe are improving. The Russian crops promise to be up to the average after all. A waterspout broke over Jekaterinslow, Russia, causing considerable loss of life and property. Sixty-nine persons are known to have been drowned, and 150 houses have been destroyed. The Rev. Mr Spurgeon, who is suffering from congestion ot the kidneys, has had a relapse, and lies in a precarious condition. He is delirious.

A successful experiment has been held at Plimlico for the production of superior iron from inferior metal by adding aluminum

A special commemoration service has been held in honor of the silver wedding of the Prince of Schleswig Holstein with Princess Victoria, third daughter of Her Majesty. The laborers employed in the corn trade at Dublin have struck, and the men on the Grand Canal have followed their example out of sympathy. The Queen and Prince of Wales have sent messages of condolence to Mr Gladstone, who has lost his eldest son. a'A steamer, name unknown, is reported to have been sunk in the Channel. The German Emperor inspected the Life Guards yesterday. The following have joined the cricket team which Lord Sheffield is taking to Australia :—Abel, Read, Chatterton, Bean and Sharpe. Charles Stroude, of Adelaide, has submitted his torpedo to the Admiralty. The Imperial Federation League has nominated a committee to draft a scheme of federation.

"rhe marriage of Princess Louise of Schleswig Holstein (grand-daughter of the Queen), with Prince Aribertof Anhalt, was celebrated yesterday. The ceremony was a very brilliant one. The French Cabinet has made overtures to the Swiss Federal Government for a commercial treaty between the two countries, provided the latter renounces its connection with the German Zollverein and the Triple Alliance. President Balmaceda is trying to minimise the effect of the defeat at Huasco. The American cruiser Baltimore has formally confiscated the Itata. Atrocious outrages in connection with the revolution are still reported. Piesident Balmaceda, fearing to murder certain victims, blindfolded them, and had blank cartridges fired at them until they became raving maniacs. In other instances men’s hands were beaten to pulp in order to extort confessions from them. The report of Baron Hirsch’s agent from Russia confirms the miserable state

of the Jews there. The Baron proposes that the Emigration Committee should grant facilities to enable Jews to leave the country at once. He believes the Russian Government is unaware of the cruelties that are practised by subordinate officials in carrying out edicts. AUSTRALIAN. H.M.S. Cordelia arrived in Sydney on Monday afternoon, from Fijian waters, and reported a terrible accident by the bursting of a gun (a 6-inch breech-loading Armstrong) which had been pronounced in good order when the vessel left Sydney. The crew were having gun practice, and were just concluding upon the firing of the seventh shot (a common shell) out of the gun. The gun exploded, striking inboard with great force, sending the fragments all over the boat, and killing two officers and four men —Lieutenants Hillyar and Gordon, Gunners Langford and Darwell, Seaman Hill, and a ship’s boy named Brown. A dozen men were badly wounded. There is at present no way of accounting for the accident. The gun had only been used for two hundred rounds, while it is guaranteed for as many thousand. Stansbury easily beat McLean on the Parramatta, for (the sculling championship and £4°°NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last night. Colonel Fraser, the Government candidate, is considered certain to be returned for Te Aroha to-morrow, The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse commences hia lectures next Sunday. The new district scheme which have been inaugurated by local footballers, promises to be a groat success. The Onehunga School Committee dealt with a case ot severe flogging by ordering the head master not to chastise any pupil unless another teacher is present. Mr Frank Lawry, M.H.R., who arrived from Wellington to-day, says the greatest weakness ot the Government lies in their strength. Mr Thomas Morrin has sold his colt Brigand, rising three years, to Pelt* Kerekere, of Gisborne.

The Manapauri, from Sydney, brought one passenger for Gisborne—Mr G. Galloway, The case of the Thames Valley Land Company v, Mihinui and others, for destroying • culvert, was dismissed, with costs against the company of £5. The Magistrate stated that the company had utterly fai'ed to prove their title to the land, (or even the position ot the culvert. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. This morning another unsuccessful attempt was made to float off the Wanaka. Typhoid has broken out in Government House, Wellington, again. One of the servants has been ill. The Governor’s children have been sent torose the harbor for safety. The horse Yardman slipped at exercise at Wellington this morning, and pulled up lame, He will probably be a non-starter.

The Dunedin Jockey Club have cent a letter to the Secretary of the Racing Uonferenoe, declining to appoint a delegate, because they are entirely opposed to the proposal to form a New Zealand Jockey Club, and will not identify themselves in any way with it. The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse concluded a successful mission at Christchurch last night, when he left for Wellington. He bad crowded congregations throughout. The Dunedin Acclimatisation Society today decided to ask Government to place a sum on the estimates for a further importation of a shipment of salmon ova. In the case at Wellington against Percy Wallis, alias Oowan, of passing valueless cheques, accused was remanded to Auckland.