NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 650, 22 August 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Forty people in all were drowned in the Kollman disaster. Two anarchists in disguise were arrested at the Brussels Congress. Eight thousand foreign Jews have been expelled from Odessa. A million dollars’ worth of damage has been inflicted by a fire at Jacksonville, in Florida. Twenty people who went mad with fright during the collision at St. Maude have been declared incurable. The Contemporary Review, London, has been formed into a Limited Liability Company with a capital of £10,500. Three women, professional poisoners, were arrested at Stenamas, in Hungary, on a charge of poisoning 30 husbands, at the request of the wives. The committee of the Socialists Congress at Berlin has carried a resolution pledging it not to support a candidate unless prepared to legislate in interests of labor. By the fall of a scaffolding in Nordenhaun, in the Grand Duchy of Oldenberg, ten persons were killed and forty seriously injured. Turkish brigands have murdered a workman and kidnapped a railway inspector in Italian, near Salonica. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is reported to be much stronger. A freight train consisting of twenty-two cars, while running along a bluff at Mendorins, California, plunged into the Pacific Ocean. The officials managed to escape.

The s.s. Teutomic has completed the run from Queenstown to Sandyhook in five days i6j4 hours, averaging 20 % knots throughout. McGreevy, of Canada, declined to undergo an examination, on the ground that he would implicate the political friends of the Ministry, and cause the overthrow of the Canadian Government,

Mr Dillon emphatically denies the personal charges of Mr Parnell, respecting the Paris funds. Mr Parnell, through the Freeman’s Journal, characterises Mr Dillon's reply as misleading and groundless. In Berlin retail market rye has doubled in price, but corn remains flat. It is estimated that the world’s production of rye will be forty million quarters short of the amount required. Ihe Daily News thinks that wheat may possibly advance to 50s a quarter before the end of the year. President Albany, in the course of his speech at Albany, said the scarcity of wheat in Europe gave the United States an opportunity to bring back lost gold, through the medium of its exports. The prospectus of the West Indian and British Guiana Ice Company, with a capital of £150,000, is being issued. The objects of the Company are the shipping, storage, and sale of Australian and New Zealand frozen meat, dairy produce, and fruit,

The situation at Pekin is grave. The recent edict is a dead letter. The province of Heenan is a centre of disaffection, whence the present trouble is being stirred up. High officials are in favor of a pure-bred Chinaman being elected Emperor and the present Tartan dynasty expelled. There are twenty foreign warships in Yang Tese Kiang, and only a demonstration in force will procure redress. The bulk of the Chinese army defies the authority of the Pekin officials. The French and English Admirals of the Mediterranean squadrons held a friendly meeting at Vallefranche, A boatload of tourists met and cheered the French fleet as it was passing Folkestone on its way to Portsmouth. A consignment of 10,000 gallons of Australian wines has sold at a substantial advance on previous prices. Leading connoisseurs are enraptured with the quality, and the merchants express as-, tonishment that the Australian colonies do not ship larger quantities Home. Wines of equal finish and delicacy would command an enormous consumption. The market vyould be certain, and would only depend on a guaranteed supply. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last night Edward Isaacs, a former local merchant, and father in law of Mr Saul Samuel, is dead. The City Council are considering a proposal for the extension of the Art Gallery. The local rifllemon have decided to send a team to the New South Wales meeting. The City Council have' decided to bring matters to a crisis with the Tramway Company, and are demanding the oample ion of circuit payment rent and fines. The brood mare Lady Norah has been purchased from W. Bobbet by S. Horden, of Sydney, owner of Nordenfeldt. Mr John Aitken Gopne’l, who acquired soma notoriety at the election before last as an opponent of Mr Mitohelson, was fonnd dead in his bedroom at Riverhead, with a bullet in the brain, and a revolver by hie side. He had been greatly worried concerning his affairs. A strange thing is that both Mr Mitchelson's opponents at the two Eden contests wore found dead from gunshot wqunds. SQUTUEJBN NWA Last night, The Seacliff Asylum enquiry wholly disproves the charges against Dr King and the management. The brewer, Mr Pascoe, of Palmerston Noith, was fined £§Q, on two charges of breach of Beer Duty Act. Beneficial rain has been falling in the South Canterbury district since Wednesday. A stack of timber was blown over by the wind at Sydenham, and fell on Edward Downing, a boy of fourteen, and killed him.

Canterbury and Wellington play the football match to morrow, but there is a south westerly gale, with rain, at Christchurch. The weights of the teams are the same. The backs average list lllbs, and the forwards list 121bs. A panic was caused in the Wellington Opera House last night by a smart shook of earthquake, but no one was hurt, The Dunedin Education Board appointed a committee to report on the advisability of appointing a truant officer fcp the city.