NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 653, 29 August 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Bv Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH ANDjFOREIGN. The prevailing storms have extended to Ireland. Sir J. Gorst will probably succeed the late Cecil Raikes as Postmaster-General. A severe storm with heavy rain has been doing immense damage to the crops in England. The attempt of Nicaraguan exiles to excite a rising has been put down. Orangeism is being suppressed in the army both at Home and in India. The British fleet has accepted an invitation to visit Cherbourg in October. A notary at Tangiers has decamped, leaving behind him liabilities to the amount of ,£BO,OOO sterling. The engineers at Chatham dockyards intend to strike unless their wages are raised to the Societies’ minimum of 5s 8d per day. The Canadian census shows the population of the Dominion to be 4,820,000, being an increase of 11X per cent on the whole. The revenue derived by Treves from the influx of pilgrims is expected to reach two million marks. Mr Penn, the Tory candidate, was elected to the Lewisham seat by a a large majority over Mr Warmington, Liberal candidate. The Argentine Government intends to increase the special issue of paper money in connection with the new Bank of the Argentine nation to one hundred million piastres.

Several deaths from starvation are reported in Stolga district, Russia, and crowds of beggars are wandering from village to village in search of food. It is reported that the Czar has proposed to Turkey that she should cede the Novi Bamiar territory, lying between Servia and Montenegro, to Russia in lieu of arrears of war indemnity, THE CIVIL WAR IN CHILI. Rumors of all kinds continue to come to hand from Valparaiso, and there is no really reliable information concerning the result of the recent battle. News from one source directly contradicts that derived from another, and the weight of more recent despatches appears to be in Balmaceda’s favor. The New York Herald despatch, however, reports that at the latest date insurgents had surrounded Valparaiso on the land side, and after 73 hours’ continuous fighting the insurgents were victorious, owing to their being armed with Remington and Winchester repeating rifles. This result was notwithstanding the fact that the numbers of the Government troops were double those of the insurgents. It is reported from another source that Baltnaceda's triumph is complete, that irreparable losses have been inflicted on the insurgents, and that their retreat is impossible, Telegrams received by the Chilian Legation in London and Paris state that in the recent battle the insurgents were placed between two fires, and suffered frightful losses. The casualties among the Government troops at the passage of Aconcagua are now stated to have been 2,500, and those of the insurgents 3,000. Fully 5,000 men were killed before the attack on the Government lines outside Valparaiso was commenced.

Balmaceda was fully informed of the insurgents’ plan, and the information received from his spies materially aided in checking the attack on the Government position. Late telegrams state that Valparaiso is quieter, and that fighting has not been resumed, although strategic manoeuvres have been attempted. The commanders manoeuvred for the purpose of getting an opening to attack, but without success, and it is generally believed the insurgent camp has proved a failure. The majority of people in Santiago and Valparaiso are reported to be rejoicing over the President’s victory, and it is said that the insurgents are in the last extremity. The latest from Valparaiso is that the Government there have been largely reinforced, and that an attack will shortly be made on the strongholds of the insurgents. Balmaceda is reported to contemplate the annexation of the territory of Bolivia, in revenge for assistance afforded the rebels. The telegraph lines to Valparaiso and Santiago have been re-opened, but all private messages are subject to censorship. The Argentine line is still closed by order of the Government. Notwithstanding that Vienna was recently elected President, Balmaceda declares he will not give up the Presidency until the rebellion is quelled, and that he is expecting torpedo cruisers and other means by which the war will end in a few weeks.

An attempt was made at Iquiqui to poison Admiral Monte and several heads of the revolutionary party, through the instigation of the Chilian Government. Some twenty army officers and men were prqyed to be implicated in the act, and after a careful [rial were condemned and shot.

Both parties are exhausting their yer sources, and the public are getting tired of the situation, losses in business, and increased cost of everything in the market, The winter season having set in is not favarable'to the interests of the fleet in the south, on account of severe storms interruptlng expeditions and combinations on land. Balmaceda’s army, 3 Woo strong, fights for money, while the Congressional party fights for freedom and Liberal Goyernment. The majority of people are in sympathy with the Congress or Opposition, but tney can aid but little in advancing its interest, having no arms or means of procuring them. The future of the naval combats will be looked upon with interest by the foreign naval forces on the coast, for on one side are iron and steel clads, iron transports, wooden vessels and turret monitor, while upon the ether side the Government have a superior fast merchant iron transport, with two heavy Armstrong long range guns at bows, with rapid firing breechloaders at sides. There are two very fast torpedo cruisers of about 700 tons each, carrying quick firing guns and Whitehead torpedos, manned by Admiral Lynch apd Copdell. Besides there are a few torpedo boats for harbor defences,

SRW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Lust night Elwin Harrow, a wealthy faut epoentrio Capa diamond miner, who has invested £35,000 in unremuneratlve property in the colony, called bis creditors together to-day, and alter an amusing meeting it wae agreed, on tfie motion of Dr Walker, seconded by Mr Adam Porter, M That' on Mr Harrow taking unto himself a wife, black, white or piebald, he be released from his present liabilities." He said he preferred a Kaffir wife, and the meeting thought a wife would save him from further looses, A boat containing a halfcaete and a Maori was blown away from the eteamer Staffs in the North. ' Next miming the Sfaori wae discovered sitting, much exhausted, on e rock, but Ihaka, the half Ossie, was found lying in the boat, dead, The long! exposure had proved too much forjhitd.