NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 636, 21 July 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Mr Spurgeon is much better. The French Railway strike is fizzling. Yellow fever is still raging at Vera Cruz. The reduction of cable rates between England and Australia has resulted satisfactorily. The Marquis of Landsdowne is ill of influenza. The English Bank of River Plate ha suspended in London. France has reduced the war estimates by three million and a half, and increased the peace footing of the army by 10,000 men. Troubles have occurred in the French Chamber of Deputies, but severe crises were averted.

Sir Frederick Broome has been appointed Governor of Trinidad, while Sir William Robinson succeeds Des Veoux as Governor of Hongkong. The McArthur and Co appeal, a Samoa case, is now before the Privy Council. The Khurds who forcibly abducted Miss Greenfield, a British subject, have refused to surrender her.

Fighting is still going on in Chili. The insurgents gained a victory on the Bth, but the Government troops turned the tables on them on the 13th. Several persons were killed, and many injured, by the overturning of waggons on an embankment of the Manchester ship canal. The Paris Corporation have decided on the construction of an underground electric railway. Mr Parnell having refused to pay Captain O’Shea the costs in the recent divorce case, he has been served with a notice in bankruptcy. Baron Hirsch intends to form a great English company to conduct the emigration of refugee Jews, he himself holding a majority of shares. A Canadian cruiser has confiscated seven American fishing boats which were fishing in Canadian waters. The crews were taken off the boats, and landed on Dog Island. It is reported that the Emperor of Germany has abandoned his intention of suggesting that England should propose a European disarmament. It is believed that the withdrawal is due to the Marquis of Salisbury hinting that Germany ought to set the example. At an exraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the National Bank of New Zealand, |the statements and proposals of Directors, passed at the recent meeting, were confirmed. The outlook of the Bank is considered favorable. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, London market cablegram, dated 17th July :—Frozen meat— Mutton market has a downward tendency. Beef market unchanged. Quotations unchanged since last telegram. TallowMarket firmer ; tallow has avdanced 3d per cwt. since last report.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last night. More encouraging tests have been made at the Puhipuhi silver field, and the tone ot the field is betterJane Flowerday, an old woman, fell dead while undressing for bed at Russell. Jas. Joyner was crushed to death by a log in the Makarau bush. Mr Wm. Cowley’s house at Tamahere has been burnt down. Mr Chas. Nicholls broke his leg at the Pakuranga Hunt on Saturday. The Helen Denny has arrived from London with a cargo valued at ,£15,000. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. Georgs Widdison has been committed for trial at Dunedin for stealing jewellery. The Ovalau, the Union Steamship Company’s new steamer for the Auckland-Fiji trade, arrived at Port Chalmers on Saturday night, from Glasgow, after a voyage of 57 days. A penalty of £lOO, inflicted on Kong Fun, a Chinese merchant, of Wellington for smuggling Chinese spirits, was mitigated to £5O. Mr E. R. West, the well-known musician, dropped dead in the Arcade, Dunedin. The cause was heart disease.

Mr F. Guinness, father of Mr A. R. Guinness, has died at Wellington. Mr George Dearney, fifteen years a railway cadet, who died suddenly at the Hutt on Saturday, was an Auckland boy, his mother, brother, and sisters residing there. His brother is in the Auckland Telegraph office. Harold Hassall, of the Bank of New Zealand, son of the late Mr T. Hassall, died at Christchurch on Saturday of typhoid fever ; aged 25. Work has been well begun by Messrs Jay and Company on the Kotuku section of the Midland Railway. _ Two gangs have been sent up, making a total of 140. One of the men working on the Government relief works at Makuri, Wellington, gives a doleful account of the condition of the men there. He says his experience leads him to the conclusion that men would be better dead than working on relief works.