NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 637, 23 July 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGiV. Sir Frederick Weld is dead. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has relapsed again. Lord Lansdowne is recovering from his indisposition. General Booth.leaves England for Australia in August. The Free Education Bill has passed the House of Lords. Mr DeCobain pleads illness, but the House of Commons will send a doctor to examine him. The Government have withdrawn the expulsion vote for the present. Race hatred is very strong at the Hungarian elections. The English football team won their four matches at the Cape. Scotland defeated Victoria in the rifle contest. A free labor bureau has been established as a result of the Dublin porters' strike. Baron Hirsch at present proposes to establish colonies for relieved Jews in the Argentine Republic only. The decision of the House of Lords is that the Bishop of London sanctions the placing of the sculptural image of Christ and the Virgin Mary upon the reredos. General Booth intends to build an international temple in London, at a cost of The immediate cause of the failure of the English Bank of River Plate was the refusal of the London and River Plate Bank to accept bills drawn by the Argentine Government, which the former might then have discounted. It is reported that the Chilian Government warships Almirante, Lynch, and Condell, have been destroyed by dynamite at Valparaiso, and the Imperial has also been damaged. The Grand Jury at New York have rejected the bill against Tyffe (historian), for a criminal offence alleged to have been committed in a railway train. The railway accident at the Manchester ship canal was caused by a blunder of the pointsman, a lad of 17, who has been arrested.

The Civil and Mechanical Engineers Society propose to invite President Carnot, of France, to visit England in the autumn, Mr Parnell predicts victory for Mr Gladstone at the general election, and states that if Mr Gladstone provides in the Liberal programme for a gift of legitimate freedom to Ireland he will not stand in the way,

AUSTRALIAN. The no-confidence debate in Sydney has not yet concluded. It Is expected that the Parkes Government will get a majority, as their policy in some respects is what the new Labor party desire. Sir Henry Parkes is again urging the pastoralists to hold a conference with representatives of the Shearers' Union, The unemployed men are still very troublesome. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last night. The new steamer Walotahl, for the Opotiki trade, left Glasgow on Monday, Sir Robert Stout arrived here from Wellington thia afternoon. Two of the looal boot manufacturers have Riven way, and signed the Federal Statement. An old man named Bryoe Hawkins, while eating his dinner at the Old Man’s Home, attempted to swallow a large piece of grlsole, and was choked to death. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The tender of Glendining and Griffin, for the extension of the North British and Hawke’s Bay Freezing Works, was accepted for £5189. A young man named Sexton was killed near Masterton yesterday, through a load of firewood falling on him. The male child of Edward Murfitt, aged 18 months, fell into a dam mill stream, at Rangiora (Canterbury) yesterday, qnd was drowned. In the Wellington Divorce Court yester. day John Dennie, plumber, applied for a dissolution of marriage with hie wife Esther Dennis, on the ground of adultery. His Honor reserved judgment. Some 120 shearers engaged at Dunedin tor New South Wales leave by tbe steamer Waihora to-day. At Timaru another 20 will be shipped, and at Lyttelton another 00, making up tbe complement of 200. A meeting of Wellington volunteers will be held shortly to consider the advisability of sending a team to compete at the annual meeting of the Neu South Waleg Rifle Aasooiation in October neat.

Mr Lomas, who wae Seoretsry to the Amalgamated Union and* Laborers' Association, has been appointed by the Govern, ment to inspect and report on all mines in tbe colony. This will occupy three months, at the end of which time Mr Lomas will be made 'head of the labor bureau, He was about to go Home, and had takep bis passage when tbe appointment was offered,