NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 645, 11 August 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.]

[Special to the Standard.]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Cholera is spreading through Syria. The heavy rains have partially destroyed the Mexican crops. The Duke of Cleveland is in a critical state of health. A special envoy from President Balmaceda has arrived in England. The stationmaster at St. Maude has been released from custody. Van Eyke defeated Hosmer in a sculling match. It is reported that Lord Salisbury intends to pay a visit to Ulster. There is a considerable demand at Bucharest for wheat on behalf of Russia. Influenza is very prevalent at Russia and 500 cases are reported daily. The Admiralty has ordered six torpedo boats capable of steaming twenty knots an hour. Copies of a poem entitled “ Emperor! Give us bread I” have been confiscated by the German authorities. The Sportsman thinks Lord Sheffield’s cricket team the best which has ever left England. Mr O’Brien disputes his debt to Lord Salisbury. The motion is set down for hearing on Tuesday. Lady Henry Somerset laid the corner stone of the Salvation Army barracks at Tottenham. The Admiralty intend to spend £lOOO in banquetting the officers and men of the French fleet at Portsmouth. News has been received from Victoria Nyanza that three dhows capsized on the lake, and 140 people were drowned. The countries of Central Europe, with the exception ofSwitzerland, are arranging for reciprocal commercial relations. , It has been decided to hold a Victorian Exhibition in London, dealing with events during the reign of Her Majesty. The storms have done terrible damage to the vines and crops, both in Austria and Hungary. Several deaths are also reported. Probate has been obtained by the executors of the late Archbishop Magee, whose property is eworn at under £18,500. Russia joins the other Powers in com* pelling the Chinese Government to restrain the excesses of the populace against foreigners. Consequent on the disorder at Crete, the Greek Government has asked the Sultan of Turkey to restore the privileges of which the residents were deprived in 1889. It is reported that China and Japan ara negotiating for an offensive and defensive alliance. Mr Rudyard Kipling, the wellknown author, has arranged Tor a trip to New Zealand and Samoa, for tha benefit of his health, The International Congress of Hygiene will open next week, with the Prince of Wales as president. It is expected that twenty Australian representatives will be present,

In referring to (the English harvest, the Times considers it will be late, and below the average. Jay Gould has established a lage syndi cate to assist the Union Pacific Rail, way Company for three years. A large broker has offered to negotiate and take a million pounds' worth of New South Wales treasury bills at four per cent.

The Roumanian Government is sending Jewish refugees back to Russia.” The Colonial Gazette says that the Pope looks to the restoration of temporal powers by a European war which the alliance between France and Russia is believed to be furthering. The Indian Government has issued prosecutions against several native newspapers for treasonable publications. The seditious character of the vernacular of the native press has lately been very marked.

In consequence of the feeling of animosity in Finland the Czar has put into force sterner press laws. His Majesty landed at Triborg on Thursday, but met with no reception, the people remaining silent, The Customs officers in the province of Bukowina, Hungary, have embezzled corn duties to the extent of 1,250,000 florins. The principal offenders have committed suicide.

Lady de la Zouche was charged with being dtunk while riding in Hyde Park. The police testified that she smelt of drink, and she was taken to the hospital and galvanised. The case was dismissed. It is reported that the Chilian Government will declare war against Bolivia because the latter Republic recognised the Chilian insurgents as “ belligerents." The McKinley tariff in vogue in the United States is having an almost ruinous effect on the tin plate industry in Wales. Owing to the express train from Pitsburg to Chicago being wrongly shunted on to a goods line at Sedein, Ohio, a collision took place, in which two persons were killed, and a number seriously injured. The second division of the Mediterranean Squadron being at Alexandra is supposed to be connected with the alleged intention of the Sultan of Turkey to appoint a new Khedive for Egypt. At the banauet at Moscow, Admiral Gervais, of the French fleet, in responding to the toast of his health, said that, taught by misfortune, France was collecting her farces, and had strong possession of the Czar’s friendship. The Muscovites kissed the Admiral’s hands, and tha Russian soldiers carried him shoulder high. France has conferred the Legion of Honor on the Governor of Moscow, The French fleet has left for Portsmouth. L. and M.A. Co. London market cablegram, dated August 7 : —Tallow—Tallow is in good demand ; fine mutton tallow i$ worth 27s 9d per cwt., and good beef 26s 3d per cwt. Frozen Meat—The mutton market has a downward tendency ; beef market easier ; lamb martcet quiet—prica of lamb has declined one-eighth of a penny since last report.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last night An agitation in on foot here to reduce ths price of bread, and a co<operative factory is threatened, Margaret Frank, wife 0! a gardener at PoB> sonhy, died suddenly yeeterday. The Waikato Mttlere intend to banquet Mt Reynolds, the dairy produce manufacturer, on his return from England, where he has been opening up new markets. Pastor Birch returns here in September t» take charge of a Church composed of secessionists from the Baptist Tabernacle. SOUTHERN NEWS, Last night, Tbe Government steamer Hinemoa has arrived at Wellington from Greymouth with 50 unemoloyed, who will be sent to employment offering alogg the West Coast of the North Island. A men netted Ntlrth committed suicide by shooting himself at Makuri, Wellington. He left a note saying that ho wee tired ot life. It It Buppoeed he was one ot the unemployed, but no further parUeulan art to hand.