NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 655, 5 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Germany is arranging to float a loan. General Booth has sailed from Capetown for Australia. The tramway men of Paris are going on strike again. Mails are now carried from Japan to New York in 13 days. A new cable has been laid from the United States to Brazil. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has passed the acute stage of his disease. By a fire at the stables in Ayr nine racehorses were burnt to death. It is intended to raise an Indian regiment to garrison Hongkong. Jewish emigrants to Palestine are returning to Odessa in a destitute condition. Seven thousand Russian Jews have left for England, the United States, and Australia. The river Barrow, in Leinster, overflowed its banks and submerged thousands of acres. It is stated that the Russian Government intend to raise a loan in Paris. During a hurricane the steamer Drummurry capsized off the coast of Nova Scotia and eight persons were drowned. Robbers stopped a train at Ogdensburg, in the United States, and stole £>7cx>. The sheriff is pursuing the offenders with bloodhounds. Servia and Bulgaria have mutually agreed to withdraw their troops from the respective frontiers. Apprehension was caused at there being manoeuvres at such close quarters. The Argentine Press is hostile to the proposal of Baron Hirsch for settling refugee Jews in the country. The head of one of the Paris public depaitments has been arrested, and charged with stealing £40,000. The German Emperor has left for Austria to attend the military manoeuvres. He was accorded an enthusiastic welcome along the route. The Queen will pay a visit to the German Emperor at Stolzenfels, on _ the Rhine, next spring. She was entertained there by the King of Prussia in 1845. Russia is purchasing Suez Canal bonds with the view of strengthing French influence, and is also numerously increas--1 ing the issue of paper roubles, The English Drapers’Union invite the

Trades Union Congress to support a State Board of Arbitration with equal representation of Capital and Labor, The entire herd of valuable pedigree shorthorn cattle, the property of Mr Perkin Moore, of Cumberland, has been destroyed, owing to their suffering from pleuro-pneumonia. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of A. Sennal, Superintendent of Printing in Canada, on a charge of illegal practice in connection with the Government Printing and Stationery Department. German experts consider that small calibre magazine rifles minimise the advantage of artillery in a battle, and that it will be necessary to invent a new description of cannon. A report is current that Russia proposes to exchange Bessarabia, a province of Southern Russia, situated between the Pruth and Dniester, for Dobruscha, an extensive district of Roumanta, on the Black Sea.

THE CIVIL WAR IN CHILI

Order has been restored in Santiago.

Coquimbo has surrendered to the Con gressional party. The insurgents' pursuit of the Government cruisers Condell and Imperial has proved fruitless. Dreadful rioting and revolting violence towards women occurred at Concepcion and Coronal. The mob sacked the latter place, indulging in abominable excesses. The German warships took up the duty of protecting the place. At Talcahuano the troops turned on their officers, shot them down, and being assisted by a large number of miners, the town was sacked and the worst passions of the drunken mob were vented upon residents. Cremation is to be resorted to in order to get rid of the bodies of the persons killed in Friday’s battle. It has been found impossible to get them all buried, and the danger of an epidemic arising makes it necessary to do something. A German cruiser, with Don Claudio Vicuna (who was to have succeeded President Balmaceda) and many other official refugees, has gone north, and will, it is believed, land them at Callao. Balmaceda, whose present course is unknown, has wired to his friends in Paris that he is coming to Europe. A special message ftom Chili says that Balmaceda was at Talcahuno, when, alarmed at the final defeat of his army, he immediately disbanded the troops be had with him. The farmers are begging the Courts to issue an injunction to restrain the bankers from paying Balmaceda’s bonds, There is a report in Chili to the effect that Balmaceda was overtaken by his captors and shot, but it is believed to be untrue. Passengers who arrived at Plymouth by the Aconcagua were very joyful at the defeat of Balmaceda, whom they denounced as a bloodthirsty villain, and they re-booked their passages to Chili.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last Night. It has been decided to extend the Art Gallery for the accommodation of the McKelvie collection. The Wairarapa, which sailed to-day, took the following passengers for Gisborne Misses Bogie (2) and Gould, Messrs F. Lee, Maclawin, D. McFarlane, W. Tait, S. Springall, W. R. York and son, D. Nolan, Oonal. The jury in the case of Bindon, commercial traveller, charged with indecent assault, failed to agree, and were discharged. He will be tried again in December. The Auckland representative football team which p'ays Wanganui and Taranaki next week, proceeded to the Thames thia evening. The Liberal Association, through a deputation, publicly welcomed Mr J, 8. Coz, Home Bule member for Blue, to New Zealand to-day. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The first annual meeting of the Free Association of Employers and Workmen of Hawkes Bay was held yesterday afternoon, Mr W. Nelson.'the President, occupied the chair. The report dwelt upon the highly successful results which had attended the efforts of the Association, The guarantee fund amounted to £14,655. The number of subscribing members was 229, of which 200 were guarantors; the number of workmen members being 1959. Compensation amounting to £9B had been paid to 37 members injured by accident. The receipts amounted to £1706. and expenditure £1340. The report and balance shoot were adopted and the bflioete re elected,

The Wellington Hebrew congregation has passed a resolution of thanks to Sir George Grey for the kind, sympathetic remarks he made in his speech ro the Jews in Russia. The Waihora, which left Wellington for Sydney yesterday, took 130 passengers from all parts, and the Jubilee 80. Mr Charles Knight, F. 8.5., who op to 10 years ago was Auditor-General of the colony, has died at Wellington, aged 83. Mr Knight arrived in the colony in ths fifties. The Wellington Trade and Labor Council has passed a resolution stating that the Legislative Council has shown cla-s prejudice in dealing with the Labor Bills, and affirming that the Government are justified in making fresh appointments to the Council to carry those measures into law. Chas. Landergreen, at Wellington, who was convicted of forgery and remanded for inquiry by the probation officer, was sentenced to six months, the report being unfavorable. At the Invercargill Education Board, it was decided to appoint a truant officer, to act also as drill instructor, at a salary of £l5O a year. The action was taken because truancy is rife in town. At the ordinary ba’fyearly meeting of the Christchurch Tramway Company last evening the Chairman said 720.000 passengers travelled in the ears, averaging 4000 daily, The receipts were £6 834, and the expenditure £5.884. 260 000 more passengers were carried than the first half of 1883. At the quarterly meeting of the Oamaru Lioeoeing Committee, the publicans of the town applied for an extension of the hour of closing to 11 p.m. The application was refused.

The steamer Rotokino, after starting from Wellington with horses for Calcutta, returned to the wharf. As a lively nor’wester was blowing hard, it was thought inadvisable to face the choppy sea at the etart of the voyage. She is still in harbor, as the wind remains rather fresh. There ie a great deal of feeling amongst supporters of the woman*! franchise in Dunedin at the compact to defer the measure from going Into operation till after the next general election. The Government offices will be closed in Wellington on the 28th prox. Labor Demonstration day. but no steps will be taken to proclaim a public holiday. Captain Logan, of the steamer Menaponri, has tendered bis resignation, but the Directors of the Union Company have deferred dealing with the matter until the report of the Melbourne Marine Board has been received. The Sefton Dairy Factory has declared a dividend of six per cent for 8J months, during which period 39,047 lbs of batter was manufactured. At Invercargill, James MoNler, oanvasHt for the Picturerque Atlas, was floed £5 and coete £2, for assaulting a subscriber by striking him on the face. The Ruapehu arrived at Hobart to day at 8 o'clock. The Wellington Licensing Bench granted a large number of extensions to 11 P.m,, but refused all application! for 12 o’clock liceasae,