NEWS ON THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 659, 15 September 1891, Page 3

NEWS ON THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The body of Jules Grevy will be given a State funeral. A German loan will probably be deferred until January. Jelleden Pasha has been appointed Governor of Crete. Mr Partridge, the Magistrate at Marylebone Court, is dead. Sir Arthur Stephney Cowell, M.P. for Carmarthen, has resigned. The Trades Union Congress has adopted the Eight Hours Bill by 290 to 50. The Wesleyan and Methodist Unions have fixed a week of prayer to commence on November 1 $• The Canadian steam lines are refusing to carry Jewish emigrants. A band of Jews have been tried in Russia on a charge of artificially disabling thousands of conscripts. It is reported that General Vor. Caprivi is urging Brazil to favor the formation of a Jewish colony there. The Times states that wheat, barley, and oat crops are from 6 to 8 per cent, worse than a month ago, and that the wheat is of bad colour. The Bank of Australasia pays a dividend of 14 per cent., and carries forward Zi4,s°°- . . , M. Freycmet, in the course of a speech, said that the late military manoeuvres had attested France’s trength, and shown that she was prepared for any emergency. It is reported that an affray has taken place on the frontier between Russians and Afghans. A vast proportion of the Republican Convention support Mr Blaine for the Presidency. Aveling, Dockar, and Gillies, leaders of the British faction at the Brussels Labor Congress, quare'led violently over a matter connected with the proceedings, and Aveling was summoned for thrashing his colleague. Mr Blaine declines to guarantee O’Donovan Rossa freedom from arrest in the event of his visiting Ireland. M, Freycinet’s references to the late military manoeuvres in France is generally considered as an official indication of an alliance between Russia and France. At the Franco-Russian demonstration at Toulon a laudatory telegram was received from the Czar. The Italian Messageries steamer Aoranima collided with the Greek steamer Thessaha, off Cape Suninin, Greece. The former vessel sank, and 40 of her passengers were drowned. A steam launch sunk in the river Foyle, Ireland, owing to a collision, and 40 of those on board were drowned. An express train from Dalloch ran into a party of navvies near Kirkhill, Scotland, killing five. The Emperor of Germany, who witnessed the Austrian military manoeuvres, praises the endurance of the Austrian soldiers and their readiness for war. One comfort which, he said, rendered him happy was that Germany and Austria allied could disregard the the rest of Europe. The Porte denies having apologised to Russia in May last for the stoppage of Russian merchant vessels at the passage of the Dardanelles, and admits that in the action taken to prevent vessels passing, the Commandant of the forts was not to blame. A Hamburg paper has created a sensation by publishing what it declares are Russian designs. It states that Russia proposes to suddenly seize Constantinople, that she has sufficient transports to land thirty thousand troops on the shores of the Bosphorus in 24 hours. Russia, it is said, will mobilise an army in April to test the efficiency of her new military system. The Russian Press is clamourous for aggression in the East. The Novosti demands a free passage for all Russian warships to enable the Black Sea fleet to join the French fleet. The Moscow Gazette declares that the Great Powers are bound to respect the decision of the Sultan with regard to the Dardanelles, as he has a right to give a passage through the straits to whomsoever he pleases. Mr Gladstone, writing to a Servian statesman, objects to the supremacy of Bulgaria or any other Power with respect to the Balkan States. London market cablegram, dated nth Sept., per N.Z. L. and M.A Co. Frozen Meat.—N.Z. beef and mutton, there is rather better demand. Lamb market is firmer. Prime N.Z. lambs are worth per carcase fid per lb. Other quotations unchanged since last telegram. Tallow.— There is a rather better demand. Fine mutton tallow is worth 27s per cwt.; good beef 25s 6d.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last Nipht. The jury censured the master of the Prison Gate Brigade for leaving the body of an old man named Bull in a well half an hour after it was discovered, pending the arrival of the police. Mr William Fraser (father of Mr William Fraser, of Gisborne), a man well advanced in years, was last week fatally kicked in the groin by a horse. Great excitement has been caused here by the charge of criminal libel preferred by a young woman against Hugh Shortland, solicitor. He had asserted that she was a mistress, and declared that he would ruin her cha:ac‘er and send her on the streets. Two doctors vouched for her chastity. Bhortland was convicted, and the Judge sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment, denouncing his conduct in scathing terms, and regretting that he could not order the lash to be given. Mr W. A Murray, a former member for B:uce, stands ngninst Mr Lake for Waikato. Both are in the Opposition interest, and there is a probability that if a good Government candidate stands he will get in through the split vote. SOUTHHHN NEWS. Last night. At the annual meeting of the Napier Chamber of Commerce this afternoon it was resolved that representation be made to ths Bailway Commissioners in reference to the Hawke's Bay Railway being amalgamated with the Taranaki line, and requesting reasons for adopting that course, as it was necessary to show how the Napier-Woodville line pays compared vi'h other lines in the colony. The Colonial Bank profits for the halfyear are £18,802, to which is added a balance of £4,537 from the last half year. Deducting £2,219 taxation there is £21,230 available for distribution. A dividend at the rate of 7 per cent, absorbs £ll,OOO, while £7,180 is to be carried forward. Messrs Ross and Glendinning have purchased, at a satisfactory figure, Progson’s Blackstone Hill (Higbfield) Station at • Manitoto, Otago. The station is bought by the Naseby Pastoral Company. On Saturday the Earl and Couutess of Onslow and their children, and Sir Walter and Lady Buller visited Otaki, where the

Ngatihue tribes, to the number of upwards of 300, hd assembled for the purpose of receiving, in due Maori form, the Governor’s infant son, Huia. Probably the Government will drop the Electoral Bill, as the Council insist on inserting a freehold and leasehold qualification in addition to entitling property-owners to register on more than one roll. The steamer Pakeha took in a cargo of frozen meat at Taranaki yesterday, and left for Auckland in the evening.