NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 664, 26 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH

The Pope is forming workshops in Rome. The hop harvest in England is improving. General Booth sails for New Zealand on October 14. Torn Mann has resigned his Presidency of the Dockers’ Union. Mr Justin McCarthy is appealing for funds in aid of evicted tenants. The London carpenters’ strike has already cost the Unions £50,000. Lord Lytton will shortly retire from the post of British Ambassador at Paris. The N. Z. Shipping Company will declare a dividend of 6 per cent. Mr Parnell and his party urge the Irish people to boycott the Freeman’s Journal. The military are assisting to rebuild Ccnsuegra. The French Press discredit the report that. France and Russia have renewed their demand for the British evacuation of Eygpt. Serious forest fires are raging in Minnesota. The town of Finlayson has been destroyed, and other small places are threatened. The Premier of Italy has despatched the text of the New Triple Alliance to Lord Salisbury by special officer. Mr Haffart, of Canada, is accused of having made a profit out of Government contracts. Mercier’s defence is that the Government of Quebec, of which he is the head, were ignorant of Pucaid’s extortions. The Yemen rebels have captured the town of Hoderida. and are advancing on Mecca, in Arrabia. The bountiful harvest in Canada is adding a sum estimated at £13,000,000 sterling to the wealth of the colony. The “ rebellion " in Mexico was merely a raid of some Texan horse-stealers, ana the cavalry have gone in pursuit. The inhabitants of Saratoug. an important town on the Volga, have petitioned Government to prohibit the export of oats and millet. Information has been received in Paris that the natives attacked the French mission in Portuguese Guina, West Africa, killing IO people. Kaeder Prince commands two strongly armed expeditions against the Wadegos in German Africa to revenge the massacre of the Zalenski expedition.

Owing to the decline in maize Deacon White, one of the largest operators in the New York Exchange, has failed, with liabilities amounting to one million sterling. At the Dockers' Congress sitting at Hull, Ben Tillett, one of the leaders, stated that the Union was vastly gaining strength, and would within a short period number 120,000 members. The disorders in China are growing very serious. The outbreak at Tekang is organised by the soldiery, and the Government are powerless to stop it without risking a civil war. A merchant steamer is conveying mariners from the warships to the town. Placards have been posted at Nankin, accusing Christians of gross crimes. A plot has been discovered to seize the arsenal at Foo Chow. Foreigners there are alarmed. The Daily Telegraph says the huge hive of China is swarming and the Australian colonies are menaced.

1 The sculling match between O'Connor and Hanlan, for £SOO a side, took place at Newmarket, when O’Connor won by three ! lengths. t London market cablegram, dated 22nd September, per New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company :—Wool—i Since opening of sales greasy merino super, medium and inferior are par ' to per lb lower. Medium washed and scoured crossbred, coarse washed 1 and scoured crossbred are par to J4d per lb lower. Scoured merino super, medium and inferior are Jsd to id per jb lower. Fine scoured crossbred has declined Jid per lb- Medium and inferior merino lambs have declined id per lb. Other descriptions unchanged. The total quantity catalogued to date is 170,000 bales ; total withdrawn 23,000. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last Night, The Himilftya has arrived from London with a cargo valued at £17.000. Mrs Marie Butte, a native of Belgium, died suddenly at Titirangi. Three clergyman of tha Primitive Methodist Church arrives here from England □ext week to labor in this district. The local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company say that the year has been a splendid remunerative one, and that 'he newly introduced cargo steamers are paying wall. Mr T. W. Glover has resigned his connection with Che New Zealand alliance, NAPIER. Last night. At the Supreme Court yesterday the case of Paramene Ono One and Hotene Te Buri v. E. ff. Ward, H nry Lascelles, and W. L. Ries, was brought to a conclusion. The Chief Justice gave judgment for plaintiffs against all the defendants, awarding oosta against Mr Barker aa upon the action for £3OO. and against Mr Lascelles aa npon £I7OO. To day the Court has been occupied partly with bankruptcy business and partly with bearing in banco an appeal from the decision of Mr Turnbull, in an action by Dr Linnoy, of Hastings, against a patient named Appolley The Magistrate had given judgment for the defendant on the ground that he waa virtually a member of a Lodge of which Linney waa the doctor. The Chief Juatiee uphold tho Migistra’a’s decision, and dismissed the appeal with £5 5a ooets against Dr Linney. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. Tho Bishop of Nelson experienced anolhex se'sure last evening, and was unconscious for some time. He ia now rallying, Mr Eden Giorge has announced himself as a candidate for the Christchurch seat. Mr George has been in the running before, He is a photographer. At a meeting of labor delegates and other Government supporters at Christchurch last night, Mr C. Sandford, one of labor delegates to tha Employers and Ehployeas' Conference during the strike, was chosen as oaniidate for the Christ* church seat, Joe Dicks, a former hotelkeeper at Sydenham, was arres’od at Oamaru with £973 on him. He was committed for trial to-day on a charge of attempting to leave the oo'ony with property over £lO. ha being an adjudicated bankrupt at the time. The Representation Commissioners met at Wellington to-day fir the first time to adjust the electoral boundaries under tho new census. The Commissioners are Colonel Hiulton, Dr Hislop, and Mr Dobson, witli Mr Crombie, Property Tax Commissioner, and Mr Percy Smith, Surveyor-General. A fire broke out at Duneiin last night tn a six roomed home in Ar.hur street, belonging to Mr Julius Hegman, and did considerable damage before it waa extinguished. Daring August tha total births in the colony amounted to 442. against 470 in July, a decrease of 23 The d.a’hs in August were 196, an increase of 21 on the number in July, Of tho total deaths, males contributed 112, and females 84 Fifty-six of the deaths were of children under five yaaro of age, being i 3.58 per cent, of tho whoia nuinber,