BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 656, 10 September 1891, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The husband of the Queen of Hawaii is dead. The Irish tenants’ defence fund his reached ,£22,000. Mr Howard Spensley stands for Dudley at the next election. Joseph Thomson, the explorer, has been recalled from Kaitanga. Gunsberg, a leading Nihilist, has committed suicide in a prison in Russia. The Turkish Government has decided not to allow Jews to enter Palestine. The German Kaiser had a great reception at the Bavarian military manoeuvres. Signor Poli, the well-known singer, has signed an engagement for Australia. The English football team did no suffer a single defeat during their tour at the Cape. King Leopold of Belgium threatens that if Lord Salisbury claims Kaitanga he will allow France to purchase the Congo Free State. The ship Iron Cross, bound from Gefle, in Sweden, to Australia, has become a total wreck on the Spanish Coast. The crew were saved. The Royal Tar, from Sydney, put Into San Francisco. The Captain and first officer died of fever, ana the crew are helpless with scurvy. The Russian Government has arranged to hold a national exhibition in Paris next year, on the lines of the recent French exhibition at Moscow.

It has been decided to prosecute the Directors of the Australian Mercantile Guarantee Bank, and the two auditors who signed the last balance-sheet. The French syndicate refuse to complete the loan of four million francs which M. Mercier, Premier of Quebec, was negotiating, on account of the Bailcbaleur Railway expose. John Burns, in an interview with a representative of the Press, said England was rapidly accepting Socialism. The European Governments dare not attempt to suppress the movement, at the risk of being submerged by a general revolt. The barque Philomene, which arrived at Dunkirk from Australia, encountered some terrific storms on the voyage, during which oil was used with great success. A Jewish doctor at Odessa is charged with inoculating rich Germans and Jews with an infectious skin disease, at /100 a piece, for the purpose of enabling utem to avoid conscription. During the manceuvres of the French troops five soldiers died from sunstroke, and fifty others are suffering from the heat. Mr Gladstone, in a letter, expresses himself in favor of an increase in the number of Labor members, but not of the Labor Party. Class parties, he says, make queer Parliaments. The Trades Union Congress met at Newcastle. A resolution was submitted to the effect, that the Government, in concert with foreign Executives, ought to arrange for a legal limit of eight hours, and also demanding that an international conference on the subject should be convoked. 1 here is much difference of opinion among the members on the great question thus raised. It is alleged that the cause of the recent revolt m China was the conveyance of a Chinese infant foundling to a French convent. [The Catholic missionary work is mainly directed to the children, which is found the most effective way of instilling Christian principles into the minds of the people, but the ignorant natives give credence to all kinds of absurd stories as to what is done with the children in the convents, such as that they are murdered and their bodies operated on for scientific purposes.] There is an indication that the Great Powers are preparing an ultimatum with respect to the Chinese difficulty.