BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 658, 12 September 1891, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The health of the Oueen of Roumania is worse. The Coninna Corporation, of Spain, has suspended payment. Mr Parnell refuses to attend the Chicago Convention in October. Jules Grevy, ex-President of the French Republic, is dead, aged 84. The Chilian cruiser President Pinto has arrived at Copenhagen from Kiel. Three gendarmes were killed in rescuing some kidnapped Jews in Badleski, Turkey. Lord Sheffield’s cricket team play a match at Colombo on their way out to Australia.

Mails from Japan have arrived at London in 19 days 10X hours, via the Cana-dian-Pacific route. Many lives have been lost by disastrous floods in the mountainous provinces of Styria. The Supreme Court of America has decided that pauper Jews must return to Europe. The Pope has ordered accommodation to be prepared in the Vatican for 22,000 French pilgrims. The Pope has issued a pastoral, exhorting Polish Roman Catholics to exhibit devotion to the Czar. Tom Mann, who was offered the Secretaryship of the Engineers’ Union, has declined the position.

The trials of a new explosive at Liege have been successful, giving 45 per cent, more power than any others. Four hundred Senators and delegates from different countries will take part in a Peace Congress at Rome, Cholera is raging at Aleppo and Anitab, in Syria, and is spreading West. Two thousand deaths are reported daily. Several thousand men at the Caston steel works, Middlesborough, have been thrown out of work owing to the scarcity of orders.

Two hundred and sixty competed in a bicycle race between Paris and Brest, the winner averaging 14 miles an hour. A severe cyclone passed over Halifax. Novia Scotia, wrecking the town and shipping. The damage is estimated at £12,000. A sensation is caused in Madrid by the formation of a new army corps. It is understood the reason is due to serious local rioting. A seminary for Roman Catholic priests bas been opened in Surrey, being the first of the kind in England since the Reformation. The Trades Union Congress decided by 242 to 116 that the legal eight hours shall not come into operation without the consent of two-thirds of the organised members of Trades Unions. It is officially announced that the change of Ministry does not imply a change in the European policy of Turkey. The British Government have arranged with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to convey a number of regiments in a given time in the event of war. The British Ambassador demands that the Porte shall apologise for firing on British merchant vessels passing the Dardanelles in July last, and in the meantime declines to visit the Sultan’s palace. Kiamil Pasha’s friendly policy towards England is now given as the cause of his downfall. He is virtually a prisoner. The Russian Government is uneasy at the attitude adopted by China, and has decided to store immense quantities of munitions of war at Viadivostock. Russia is massing troops on the Austrian and German frontiers.

inquiries made as to the effect of the McKinlay tariff indicate that it causes much less injury to trade than was at first expected. The exports to America for the first qnarter of 1891 show an actual increase over the corresponding period of the previous year. An injunction has been granted at the instance of the Chilian Junta, ordering the steamship commander to whom the silver on board the Espeigle was transferred not to part with it. London market cablegram, dated Bth September, per N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Company Wool—The sales opened this day at an average decline of about 5 per cent, on last sale’s closing rates. The attendance of both Home and foreign buyers is good, and competition active. The total quantity available, including wool held over from last series, is 428,000 bales, 70,000 of which have been forwarded to the manufacturing districts direct.