BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 660, 17 September 1891, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Earthquake shocks continue in San Salvador. The entire German army is now armed with the new rifle. The Russian Ambassador in Paris sent a message of sympathy to Madame Grevy on the death of her husband. The Rev. George Rogers, the oldest Congregational Clergyman in the world, is dead. ,<The steamer" Viruawa, which went ashore on the Dingdale Rock, has been floated off. The African chief Tippo Tib asserts that there is no truth in the story about Jameson and the cannibals at Ribardo. The steamer Aoromina sank in four minutes after the collision. The passengers were asleep at the time. Rhodes, a sorter in the London post office, has been sentenced to seven years for the wholesale theft of letters. It is reported that the British East African Company intend to abandon the Uganda country north of Victoria Nyanza. Five hundred dockers of the Carron (Leith) Shipping Companies have struck against a reduction of wages, and the strike is likely to affect the Australian export trade. The London stockbrokers are delighted with the intimation cabled from Sydney that three of the local Banks are tendering largely for the New South Wales Loan. The Committee of inquiry censure the officials in the Canadian Public Works Department, and acquit M. Langevin of any intentional dishonesty. A mob of 20,000 Chinamen at Jun Chow burned 10,000 telegraph poles, and expelled the workmen who were erecting them. It is reported that a widespread plot is being organised to depose the Shah of Persia. Enormous sacks have been placed in the Cathedral of Kazan for the reception of scraps of food for the Russian famine districts. The horrors of the Russian famine are increasing daily. The rural clergy are starving, and the sufferings of the children are heartrending.

The Marquis de Rudini assured an interviewer that the Dardanelles incident would create no trouble. In his opinion. Europe was likely to enjoy peace for many years. Fifteen deaths have occurred on board the cruisers Blanche and Marathon, at Bombay, from cholera. It is stated that two thousand people have been drowned by floods at Toledo, in Spain. Help is unobtainable owing to the railway being washed away. The Daily News is in sympathy with the leaders of the Trades Union Congress, in their demands for the payment of members, and an increase in the representation of labor. In the return Cricket match between the North and South at Hastings, the defeat of the latter was only averted by the batting of Ferris, who scored 67, not out, and enabled his side to make a draw of it. It is officially reported that Zalavski’s expedition has been annihilated on the Ruato river. * Nine officers and 300 natives were killed, and the Krupp and Maxim guns were ad captured. Four officers managed to escape. Many of Balmaceda’s leading officials have been arrested in the passes of the Andes. The Junta intends to give a banquet to the British fleet, in recognition of the sympathy shown by the majority of the officers and men to the insurgents. All efforts to find Balmaceda have not been successful up to the present. Aldomalo, one of Balmaceda’s Ministers, was while escaping murdered by his own escort, and robbed of 30,000 dollars. A sensation has been caused by a report that a force of British troops has been landed at Ligri, on the western side of the island of Lesbos, in the Northern Asgean Sea. The report has been confirmed, but is believed to be susceptible of explanation. The Parisian papers comment on England’s reply respecting the Dardanelles, in which Lord Salisbury declared that Russia had no exclusive right to the Dardanelles.

The Daily News correspondent at Constantinople says that Turkey has not thrown herself into the arms of Russia, as is generally feared. The Sultan states that he has made no change of policy, and that he is firmly bent on peace. The Times considers the alleged occupation of Ligri by the British to be preposterous, and that it is simply a Bourse trick to create a fall or to prevent the issue of the Russian loan. Both the Foreign Office and the Admiralty deny that there has been hostile occupation of Ligri, but consider it possible that with the permission of the Porte a few British seamen landed, there for recreation or gun practice.