NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 648, 18 August 1891, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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[Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Nine persons were injured by the fall o the scaffolding of the Travellers’ Club, Pall Mall. 1 The Somerset cricket eleven defeated’ Surrey by 141 runs just on the stroke of time. Fully 19,000 deaths of cancer occurred in England last year. The Government of Portugal has prohibited the further importation of wheat into Portugal till the stocks on hand are consumed. The leaders of the Manipur rising, the Senaputty and the Tongal General, were publicly hanged. Mr J. G. Blaine, Secretary for the United States, is improving in health. The Republican movement to nominate him for the Presidency is increasing. Lord Lurgar has sold his estate in Armagh for a quarter of a million sterling, under Lord Ashbourne’s Act. Owing to a blunder on the part of the architect it has been found necessary to relay the foundations of the Chicago Fair, at an estimated cost of a quarter of a million dollars. The Rev. H. Spurgeon is weaker, and refuses to partake of food. Owing to the Marquis of Salisbury’s costs having been paid, the Court has annulled Mr O’Brien's bankruptcy. The sale of the Parisian journals Le Figaro and the Matin has been prohibited in Strasburgh owing to the reports published by them on the state of the health of the Emperor of Germany. The governing body of the Imperial Institute bas decided to allow the Australian Colonies reasonable additional space for the display of grain and other products. The Turkish Government has decided to despatch 700 soldiers to Crete to restore order. The more discreet Paris journals are attempting to check the Russophile ovations, as they are creating dangerous excitement. The strike of 5000 Clyde ironworkers, which involved 12,000 other workmen, collapsed, owing to the executive refusing assistance. Seamen are demanding from ship owners an improvement in the provisions, supplied to them, and request that Australian preserved meats should be included in their diet Ten thousand workmen engaged in supplying the ocean colliers in South Wales struck work for an improvement in hours. The Vienna press is urging the European powers to take action to pievent Russia from forcing Turkey to permit the passage of Russian vessels through the Dardanelles. During a review of troops at Moscow the Czarina ordered the Jewish soldiers to withdraw, as their presence was offensive to her sight. The new naturalisation laws are required by Jews in Russia. It is stated that the knowledge of Russian secret orders received at Moscow will have the effect of expelling every Jew from Russia, Baron Hirsch has completed the purchase of land in the Argentine Republic for the settlement of Jewish refugees. The price is stated to be a million and a-half sterling. He will probably arrange for a further settlement in Asia Minor. The Russian prohibition of wheat exportation has caused a general rise in wheat. English wheat has advanced a further 6d and is 6d. The German market is active for red winter, New York is at no cents. There is an enormous advance at Amsterdam, Vienna, and Berlin. The cargoes of wheat ex Lismore and Nith, from Lyttelton, have been sold for export to the continent. The Lismore’s realised 40s and the Nith’s 40s 3d. Moths are ravaging the crops in the North of England. Clouds of moths pbscured for a whole night the light from the lighthouse on Faroe Island. The N.Z.L, and M.A. Co., London market cablegram dated 14th August, 1891 :—Tallow : Tallow is ready of sale. Fine mutton tallow is worth 28s 3d per cwt. Good beef 26s 3d per cwt. Frozen Meat. Mutton market dull. Canterbury mutton is worth per lb. Wellington 3#d per lb. Lamb market unchanged. Supplies of American beef are heavy. There is little demand. N.Z. beef. Forequarters is worth 2 6-Bthd per lb. Hindquarters 4 2-Bthd per lb. Quotations nominal. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS U ex ■ . AUCKLAND. Last night The outward 'Frisco [mail steamer Mariposa, which was due here from Sydney on Saturday, did not arrive tjll to-day. She had fearful’ weather. The boats and pilot house were smashed, several persons were nearly washed overboard, and the doctor had a rib broken. F< r 24 hours the vessel only steamed 30 miles, though going fullspeed ahead in the teeth of it. She was off North Cape on Friday night, yet could not see the way, it being nearly as dark as night during a hurricane, Sara Bernhardt ancr her company were on board. Patrick Dougherty was lying drunk on tho Kaipara railway line, when the oow-catcher of the train picked him up and threw him over the line, He sustained injuries of a dangerous character. A sad calamity is reported from Opotikl. | A beat containing a number of young men, who were cut fishing, capsized on the bar. Two sons ’of Captain Hopkins (of the Che'msfcrd), and a young man named Frank Hudson, were drowned. The others were only saved with very great difficulty. The kauri timber industry is at present seriously affected by the severe depression existing in Australis. The Melbourne Board of Trade have decided, in view of the depression, and consequent accumulation of stocks of sawn timber in ths ir yards, to shut down for a time some of their country mills, and arrangements are being made to give effect to the directors' instructions, SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. Alexander Dundas, a surveyor of Palmerston North, went down to Wellington to givo eyider.ee at tbe Supreme Court in a ease last month, and baa not been seen aince (he 30>hJlia friends era now anxious about him. No trace of the missing man baa been found, though the matter has been under investigation some time, and it is feared that he must have come to some harm. Whooping cough ie very prevalent in Wellington. John- Hoban, a farmer at Campbelltown, Feilding, was killed rear Awakure on Saturday night by a trap upsetting, freeman, the winner of the Grand National Steeplechase, was sold by auction at ChristChurch to day for 350 guineas. The purchaser was Mr Dsn O’Brien, who was greeted with warm applause as the horse was led out of the ring. The Executive of the National Liberal AMCaiation telegraphed from Dunedin to the premier and city members', respectfully urging ibe passing of the Women's Franchise iprpugh fhe pabular elective chamber, believing nd true Liberal can oppose it.