NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 647, 15 August 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Switzerland stands out of the Customs Union. General Booth received an immense ovation on his arrival at Capetown. The McKinley tariff is affecting the German trade in knitted goods and The death is announced of the Hon. James Russell Lowell, at the age of 82. Messrs Dillon and Justin McCarthy propose to establish an evicted tenants fund. . , Russia has forbidden the proposed Polish pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Louis in Rome. The Dominion Government has resumed negotiations with Spain for a commercial treaty. Parnell’s friends intend to stump England and Scotland in support of his leadership. Mr Cleveland, ex-president of the United States, who has been seriously ill, is improving. . . . , The prohibition of the export of rye ftom Russia is having a serious effect on the German and Austrian trade. The Tasmanian Government have decided to re-appoint Sir E. C. Braddon Agent-General for a further term of three

y The Grand Duke Alexis forbade any display of French and Russian flags from his hotel in Paris, and refused an ovation

at Vichy. The syndicate which Jay Gould was settling up to assist the Union Pacific Railway Company for three years, has C °A Em spell has set in in New York. The thermometer is at 97 in the shade, and many people are prostrate from the effects of heat. „ ~ , . Bishop Moorehouse, of Manchester, and others are preparing a report upon the work of the Anglican mission to the South Wales. Morrugh and Parenti, bankers carrying on business at Trieste, have failed. The liabilities are set down at seven million florins. , ■ j The Russian Government has assigned a sum of thirty million roubles with which to carry on rblief works, and for the purchase of grain, The Mayor of Portsmouth has sent an invitation to several members of the French Cabinet to attend a banquet to be given to officers of the French squadron. The amalgamation of the John Gee line of steamers with the Clarence R'vcr Steamship Company of New South Wales is almost completed. The name of the new Company will be the North Coast Steam Company, Hanlan and O'Connor will allow the Australian champions who may respond to their challenge for the double-sculling championship, £lOO for expenses, and guarantee them, if they wish, two singlesculling races for £5OO a-side. At a meeting attended by 50°° persons of all classes and creeds, resolutions were passed warmly endorsing General Booth s emigration scheme. jt is reported that the Sultan will pay the ransom demanded by the brigands 1 for the two Frenchmen captured qt Omurdoa, out of his private purse, 1 The German Emperor is recovering I from the effects of his accident, and is j able to dispense with the assistance of a stick. , The woman Schneider, who was ar--1 rested with her husband for decoying and murdering qppvant girls, attempted I to commit suicide, and her recovery is hopeless. 1 Five thousand acres of woods are in--1 volved in conflagration. Mr Holden, Home Ruler, was elected , for Walsall by a majority of 538 over Mr James, Unionist. Miss Cooper’s application to have her , marriage witn her cousin, into which she ’ admits she was terrorised, declared null 1 and void was refused. _ 1 E. McCaffery, one of the Invmcibles, ' who was found guilty of participation in 1 the Phoenix Park murder, and sentenced 1 to id years’ imprisonment, has been released from gaol. Mr Harrington, M.P., Secretary of the ! National League, has announced that ; the funds are exhausted, and therefore the League is unable to continue its > grants to evicted tenants In July the Chilian rebel fleet appeared i off Valparaiso, and threatened the town 1 The' British and German warships in 1 harbor cleared'fop aptfop, whereupon the 1 insurgents withdrew.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUGKL4ND. Last] night The Monowai, which arrived with the ’Frisco mails last night, made the run down in 18 days 17£ hours. News has been received that three ministers have’been unpointed by the Primitive Methodist Conference iu E 9 gl»n4 work in New Zealand. ’ ' Johq Ryan, who has filed his schedule here, has fecon g" years in the colony, and is 79 years of age. Mr Francis Dalton was reoeivmg fees nt the Gcpd Templars' Lodge in Ooehunga last night, when ha tell dead, Petitions are being signed here urging Government to pass the Auckland Electric Lighting Bill, with the view to terminate the gas monopoly, Harry Spring lias been arrested at the Thames on a charge of jewellery robbery at Sydney. ’ ' ’ . To-day a waggon load of flix from Waikato was bging taken through the streets, when it took firs,

SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. George Widdecomb has been committed for'tried at punedfn on three charges of stealing jewellery, ' Four hoys broke into the Invercargill Primitive Methodists’ Church lost night, and attempted to open the safe, They were disturbed and caught. Thomas House, boatswain n{ the American barque Clan McLeod, and who had been acting as second ma’e was sentenced yesterday at Dunedin to one month’s imprisonment lor essiiiiting Captain V?hjtney, of the same Ship, > ‘ The arrivals in the colony during July were 867, and the departure* 1284 As usual the bqlk of ’he latter— 645 -were to New South Wales. There were lg 9 to Tasmania, and 14 of the arrivals were from the latter colony. The Premier, in acknowledging the resolutions in favor of conferring the franchise on women passed at the recent public meeting at Dunedin, expressed a hope that a measure conferring the privilege on woman will become law this session. Williatn Haokehaw, a well-known tobacconist and bookmaker, was killed at the Christchurch railway station last evening, He oame in' the train from the Grand National mating, and jumped off the platform of the paftiage before the trajn The second jury in the Nloh? - attempted murder, returned a verdict of i not guilty, on the ground of insanity. Mo«a was ordered to be confined Uli the ploasurc Of thd Colonial Secretary* j

In the Grand National meeting at Christ church yesterday the racing was interesting throughout, the favorites being upset in nearly every event. There were a great many casualties during the day, the most serious occurring in the National Steeplechase, when Allen, the rider of Morok, broke his collarbone. In the Welter flat Handicap the horse Lightning broke his fetlock, and was shot, and Waihi was so injured in the Grand National Hurdles that it is likely he will have to be destroyed. Freeman won the chief event, and is a very popular horse. Daring the day £7050 passed through the totalisator, about £6OO more than last year. Oouranto, winner of the hurdle race of 200 sovs., paid a dividend of £lO Bs, In the Maiden Steeplechase Darnley was second. The steamer Industry, which left the Bluff for Sydney at 1.30 p.m on Wednes day, with a full cargo of grain, put back, to port at 10 o’clock last night, leaking. The vessel touched the rocks when

ijoing out of the harbor, she being then n charge of the captain, who holds a pilotage exemption certificate. The vessel at the time of touching, was out of thechannel, but the Captain states that he had to give way to cutters entering the harbor, and in doing so the tide touched the vessel on the port bow, taking her in shore. The Industry is alongside the wharf—she is making water freely, and steam pumps are kept going constantly. The extent of the damage to the hull and cargo is not yet known fully. Four-fifths of the cargo was shipped by Invercargill firms.