NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 643, 6 August 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Rev. Mr Spurgeon’s strength is improving. Eight hundred French navvies have struck work. Mr Stanley is improving from his accident. The festivities arranged in honor of the visit of the Russian cruiser to Cherbourg continue. The English summer manoeuvres are approaching a conclusion. They have excited little interest. The fourth centenary of Ignatius Loyala, founder of the order of Jesuits, is being celebrated throughout Spain. The chimney of some iron works at Halltomont, in Belgium, has fallenEighteen people were burned under the ruins. Dr Shamm, of Berlin, who has been experimenting with tuberculine, has achieved successes in 40 per cent, of the cases treated. Baron Hirsch has appealed to the German Central Committee to co-operate with him in his scheme for assisting Russian refugees. It is now stated that it was a syndicate of financiers, and not the Pope, that advanced the funds necessary to save the Bank of Rome from suspension. The officers of the French fleet were conveyed by special train to Moscow. Their visit is being celebrated by great festivities. Mr Atkinson, M.P., whose suspension was shortened from two to one week, attempted to move a resolution censuring the Speaker, but the House refused to listen to him. Trials made with the brakes showed that they stopped the train easily at St. Maude after coming in sight of the station, and the conclusion is that the driver did not apply them on the night of the accident.

Sir H. Isaacs, ex-Lord Mayor of London, during his examination upon the bankruptcy of the Hansard Union Company, provoked much discontent by his professed inability to explain how the money had disappeared. The s.s. Wallarah, which left London on July 9, on her maiden voyage to Sydney, has been totally wrecked at Dresden Island, near the Cape of Good Hope. The passengers and crew were saved. A number of armed men attacked the barracks at Barcelona, desiring to seize the arms in order to start a revolt. They were repulsed by the garrison, and the leaders arrested. A large British fleet will receive the French squadron on August 21. The Queen will entertain Admiral Gervais and his officers at Osborne.

Mr Parnell had a splendid reception at Thurles, where he made a speech in reply to Messrs Dillon and O’Brien, whose views he denounced as below criticism and beneath contempt. He had an immense ovation on his visit to Dublin, the houses being illumined and the streets crowded. The United States Government has warned the Jewish Society that it objects to an influx of Russian refugees. The colliers who went out on strike in Pennslyvania have accepted the terms offered by the employers and are returning to work.

King Alexander of Servia, who is on a visit to Russia, has been banquetted at Moscow, where he also reviewed the Russian troops. The Marquis Di Rudini denies that it is the intention of the Italian Government to place a two million loan on the Berlin market shortly. The London Court of Appeal has decided that consignees cannot recover damages from a ship owner for delay in the delivery of goods owing to a strike in the colonies or India.

A proposal is under disenssion in America to give twenty thousand pounds for a horse race, on condition that English and Australian owners send horses to compete for the prize. The Englishman who won £20,000 at roulette at Monte Carlo, continued the game, and won a further sum of £20,000. He engaged a couple of secretaries to keep an account of his winnings. Mr W. O’Brien intends to ask the Marquis of Salisbury to refer the question of costs in the libel action, for not paying which the former was declared bankrupt, to any three members of the House of Commons who may be selected by the Marquis of Salisbury himself.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. List night William Verekor Bindon, a well-known f'achtaman, who took the Maritina to the aat regatta in Wellington, is In cuetody here on a charge of indepent aaeault on a child of 13. The girl alleges that she was looking for an office in the Government insurance buildings ; that he took her to the top fl ior, and there committed the assault. He is employed as commercial traveller by Hancock and Co, brewers. The operative bootmakers who are on strike had a lengthy meeting, lasting! four hours, to dpoide whether they should endeavor to make a compromise with the masters on the federal statement. A vote was taken by ballot, when 176 voted for standing firm to the federal statement and 82 were in favor of a compromise. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. At Christchurch the top brick of the restoration of the Cathedral spire was laid this morning by Bishop Julius. The Bishop was conveyed to the top of the spire, 270 test from tho ground, by means of a chair attached to a rope. Mr Stocks, the contractor, presented the Bishop with a solid silver trowel, bearing a suitable inscription. At Nelson a serious fire occurred last night, at about 12. A family residence known as Katherine’s was burnt to the ground. The house contained ten rooms, and was formerly occupied by Mr Jua'ioe Blchmond. Mr and Mrs Baker, who were living in the house, had a narrow escape of being burnt, leaving the building with nothing on except their night drosses. The building was insured in the Standard office for LSQ9. The furniture is not insured. News from Dunedin states that the hodiea of Alphonso Beere (aged 20), Bobirt Blanchard (20), and J, Meikle (18) have been discovered. Blanchard was found embedded in six or seven feet of snow, about a chain from where body was found, while Meikle was discovered some 20 or 80 yards further up. The three first named belonged to a search party of nine, and disappeared from their companions by the snow giving from under them, completely enveloping them in an avalanche, which slipped fully < 400 yards down the mountain side into I a gully, and then precipitated with awful | Velocity over 4 perpendicular cliff itlteon

feet in depth. The bodies were discovered '

yesterday by a search party of 200 men from Keyburn. Blanchard and Beers evidently had been killed outright from the fall, but Meiklc's body showed no marks of injury, and it is thought he must have lived some time after reaching the bottom. The lifeless body of the younger Meikle was also found. Four dogs were with him, one of them lying right across the body.