NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 661, 19 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The wool market has an improved tone. The Italian Government is increasing armaments. The new Archbishop of York has been enthroned. Fourteen persons were drowned by the capsizing of a schooner oft Nova Scotia. Governor Hill is to be nominated as President by the State of New York. The Australian “ plungers,” the bookmakers Thompson, are gaining notoriety by their heavy turf gambling in London. Forty tons of New Zealand potatoes, the condition of which was bad, have been sold for £t a ton in London. The Rev. Mr Spurgeon is now strong enough to take daily outdoor exercise. M. DeGiers, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, shortly pays a visit to Paris. Germany has recognised the Chilian Junta, and other powers will likely also ?ive official recognition. France and taly have already done so, Sad tales come from the famine-stricken districts in Russia. Lawlessness has taken extreme courses, and murder, robbery, and shocking cruelties to women are of frequent occurrence, women even being violently stripped in public places. Complete failure of the rye harvest is announced from thirteen provinces. Baron Hirsch has warned the persecuted Russian Jews that they must be patient, as emigration must proceed gradually. The Baron’s agent asserts that the persecution is increasing In severity. The Great Powers renew their protest against the continued outrages upon foreigners in China, and a naval demon* stration is threatened if there is not some remedy found, The London Standard declares that if Russia exacts any unfair concessions from the Porte, England will swiftly render them nugatory. The German Press states that supposing the rumored British occupation of Mitylene had been true, Germany would not have offered any objection. In French and Turkish diplomatic circles the manoeuvres are regarded as a warning of what England will probably do in the future. It has been found by the Canadian committee of enquiry into the official corruption that there has been conspiracy to defraud the Government, and prosecution is recommended. The Government will probably decide to institute proceedings. The Times states that the most disagreeable feature about the thing is the alliance between fraud and party organisation, owing to needy professional politicians making use of their influence for personal ends. Sir John Steele, R.S.A., sculptor to Her Majesty for Scotland, aged 87, is dead. The lumbermen on strike at Ottawa are very disorderly and the militia have been ordered out. Thirty-five tons of silver consigned from Valparaiso by H.M.S. Espeigle has been deposited in the safes of the Bank of England. Renewed reports have reached Vienna that the Russians and Afghans are fighting in the Hindoo Kooch mountains, which separate Afghanistan from Afghan, Turkestan. Fierce storms have been raging in Northern Italy, and the country round Turin is inundated. Immense petroleum reservoirs at Batoum, a port on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea, are on fire, and menace the town. The efforts made to bring about a reconciliation between the Emperor of Germany and Prince Bismarck have up to the present been unsuccessful. It is alleged that in return for the Dardanelles concession the Czar has abandoned a large amount of arrears ot the Turkish indemnity. Three thousand people wera drowned by the floods at Consuegla, in Spain. Four thousand families have been rendered homeless. The place presents a frightful scene. Hundreds of bodies are floating about, and robbers are pillaging in all directions. Women and children are dying of hunger. The Government is empowering the Governors of the stricken provinces to expend money in the relief of the distressed.

At least three millions of the New South Wales loan Is virtually placed, and the Bank of England will tender for a million of It if necessary. The heavy tenders of colonial banks has given confidence to investors.

The organs of the Italian Government unanimously support the proposed increase of taxation by two hundred thousand for war purposes. The efforts of the supporters of General Boulanger to prevent the production of “ Lohengrin ” in the Paris theatres were extremely violent. The audience received the opera with enthusiasm, and outside there was a great crowd collected. Insulting references to Emperor William 1 ! speech were hissed by the audience, Eleven hundred persons were temporarily taken into custody. Financiers utilised the British nava! manoeuvres at Mitylene to scare the Bourses, and the Continental press considers that the acceptance of the hoax 11 evidence of the tension existing among the European nations. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s London market cablegram, dated 15th Sept., 1891 Wool 1 Since close of last sales greasy merino superior and fine greasy crossbred are par to Jid per lb lower; superior scoured merino has declined }id to id per lb] greasy and washed merino (medium and inferior), fine scoured crossbred are id per lb lower; medium and inferior scoured has declined id to I j£d per lb J medium and inferior coarse scoured crossbred have declined j£d per lb; medium scoured crossbred has declined id per lb j greasy merino and crossbred lambs are to id per lb lower. There is much irregularity in the bidding. Wools of a faulty character are neglected. Th# Home demand is good, but German poor. The quantity catalogued to date is 87,00 fl bales 1 total withdrawn, t f.ooo.