NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 632, 11 July 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[By Electric Telegraph.] I [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Admiralty is examining the torpedo invented by Mr Chas. Stroude, of Adelaide. The employees on the Orleans railway line have struck for a reduction in the hours. The hearing of the Bishop of Lincoln’s appeal to the Privy Council has concluded. Judgment is reserved. The R. M. S. Kaikoura arrived at Rio Janeiro on Wednesday, with her meat in good order. Captain Charles W. Selwyn, M.P. for Wisbech, has resigned. The anti-foreign agitation in China continues. Efforts are being made to induce President Carnot to visit England. The Russian Press welcome the proposed visit of the French fleet to Cronstadt. The Anchor line steamer Utopia, which sank off Gibraltar after collision with a British ironclad, has been raised. In the House of Commons the Free Education Bill was read a third time and passed. Owing to the failure of the grain crops there is a prospect of a fearful famine being experienced in twenty Russian provinces. In the libel action brought against the Freeman’s Journal by Mr T. Healy, M.P., the jury were unable to agree on a verdict and the accused was discharged. The Sultan of Zanzibar met with a serious accident while out driving. The horses attached to his carriage bolted, and he threw himself out and had his leg and collarbone broken. In cross-examination before the Parliamentary Priviliges Committee, the chief accusers of Sir H. L. Langevin, late Minister of Public works of Canada, collapsed. The Senaputty, sentenced to death for complicity in the Manipur revolt, has been feigning madness, and has attempted to commit suicide. The P. and O. Co.'s stevedores’ strike has ended, and work has been resrqped as usual.

Jewish millionaires are making large contributions to the immigration fund being raised in Russia to assist their compatriots. Steamers leaving Odessa for Palestine are crowded by those seeking new homes.

At the State Banquet given by Her Majesty in honor of the visit of the Emperor and Empress of Germany, there were 160 guests. The spectacle was a very brilliant one, and in splendour it has not been equalled for about thirty years. The banquet was served in St. George’s Hall, and plate and trophies of the value of over a million sterling were brought into use.

Professor Lannelonge, of the Academy of Medicine of Paris, announces another cure for tuberculosis, by means of the injection of chloride of zinc, which produces a fibrous transformation of healthy surroundings of the tissue. During the process bacilli are walled in by sclerous tissue, but at the stage at which experiments have advanced, the doctor is unable to say whether they are starved out or merely rendered dormant. Mr Hammond, a seceder from Parnell, was elected for Carlow by a majority of 220 over Mr Kelly, the Parnellite. The Tories of Carlow voted forjthe Parnellite candidate. A car-driver deliberately slashed Parnell with his whip. One of the humours of the election was a fox with a kettle tied to his tail and hung on to a tree. This was supposed to represent Kettle, the candidate, tied to Parnell. A powerful syndicate has been formed, which is prepared to drain Melbourne and suburbs on the Shone system. The members are ready to risk a loss of 25 per cent, of the cost if the experiment is a failure.

Baton Rouge, a city of Louisiana, on the |Mississippi, has been visited by a tornado which destroyed the prison. Ten of the prisoners were killed outright, and many others injured. Mr Blake, of the London Sporting Life, is dead. Hyndman, the Socialist leader, was arrested for making a speech in which he urged his hearers to use force to obtain their rights. An instance of professional priggishness has occurred over the illness of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. Sir A. Clark, who was called in, refused to meet Dr Kidd, the homceopathic practitioner, who was also engaged in the case. It is asserted that the Crown Prince of Roumania has intimated a preference to abdicate his right to the throne rather than renounce the engagement with Miss Varesco. The peasantry approve of the alliance, but the nobility oppose it. Owing to the tariffadvancing the price of meat, M, de Freycinet, Minister of War, made a statement in the Chamber of Deputies, and demanded an additional 5,000,000 francs to provide for French meat contracts. Four murderers have been executed by electricity in New York. Medical men are satisfied that death was instantaneous and painless, but there are many very conflicting accounts. London market cablegram per N,Z.L. and M.A. Co., dated July 7 :—The wool sales closed this day at the level of last sales, except superior scoured merino, medium crossbred, and inferior greasy lambs, which have declined per lb. Medium and inferior scoured have advanced '/ii per lb. The market for greasy is easier. The total quantity sold during the past sales is 300,000 bales, of which 34,000 have been taken for the continent, and 154,000 for America. It is estimated that 14,000 have been held over for future disposal. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last night. The schooner Awanui has started loading for the East Coast ports. Colonel Fraser has been elected for Te Aroha by a majority of 335 over Sir Walter Buller. The body of an infant, partly eaten by doge, has been found on an allotment at Hokianga. The brigantine Sarah Pile, timber laden for Newcastle, was beating out of Talrua, tyhen she went on the rocks, and Is now full of water, with a hole in her bottom. All the proceeds of the football matches to-morrow, which are to inaugurate the district scheme, will be devoted to charities. An enquiry held here into the sudden death of an infant revealed the fact that a baby farm exists at Mount Eden, where there are now twelve children, Sl* have died out of thirty-two lu the month]

SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The resident surgeon ot the Timaru Hospital having left the Hospital, the Board resolved to try and do without one, the four medical mon in town undertaking to look after the patients at a nominal remuneration. A fire occurred yesterday morning at Anderson and Morrison’s foundry at Dunedin, gutting the pattern and plate rooms, and doing damage estimated at £2OOO. It is believed a spark from the chimney must have set fire to the roof. At the Dunedin Poultry Show the entries were 1278 against 1216 last year. Dogs were three fewe-, and all other classes increased. A number of exhibits ty Mr Rogan, of Wellington, gained the Ihree firstclasses, and showed up well in other classes. Arthur MacDonald and Company have purchased the Roseville Dairy Factory, Otago, and the freehold. Mr MacDonald goes Home in the Tongariro to bring back a dairy expert. A man named George Smith, about fO years old, clerk to Mr Rhodes, wool broke, Obristohurch, was found dead in bed at 6. 35 to-day. The decceased was much respected, and was an old colonist. The Nautical Court of Inquiry at the Bluff, into the circumstances attending the wreck of the baique Compadre, found that the wreck was primarily caused by the dircovery of a fire which compelled the captain to alter his Course and make for a New Zealand port, and that a gale from the Norlb-west drove tbe vet sei on the Auckland Islands. Captain Jones end bis officers were found blameless' and the court expressed an opinion that they had done all possible to save the vessel.