NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 665, 29 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

By Electric Telegraph.] [Special to the Standard.] BRITISH ANDFOREI6N. The Liverpool Gaiety Theatre has been destroyed by lire. “ Carmen Sylva,” Queen of Roumania, is improving in health. The authorities at Colombo deny the existence of cholera at that port. William Terris and Miss Millard will shortly make a theatrical tour in Australia. H.M.S. Swinger, which is on her way Home from Australia, has arrived at Malta, all well. Captain Lazier is instituting proceedings for divorce of marriage with Lady Blanche Ogilvie. There is no prospect of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon accepting an invitation to visit Australia. The young King of Servia is betrothed to Princess Helen, of Montenegro. The stationmaster at St. Maud, where the collision took place recently, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, and the engine driver to two years. Dr Adler, Jewish Rabbi, has requested Mr Hall, a well-known author, to proceed to Russia and write a work describing the sufferings of the Jews there. During last week 2000 Russian Jews left Kieft and Odessa for America and Australia, and 700 for the Argentine Republic. It is reported that only a small portion of the New South Wales loan has been paid up at a discount. An unsuccessful attempt was made by Anarchists to wreck an express train at Cracow, in Poland. Thewba has collected large bands, and is making an attack on Lountho.' Reinforcements from India have been asked for.

The London City branch of the Imperial Federation League has appointed a special committee to go into the question that more favorable treatment should be extended to colonial products. Owing to the death of the Grand Duchess Paul, the Czar will proceed to Moscow, Serious floods have occurred in the Ardeiche Province, and a number of ives have been lost.

The Ameer of Afghanistan has opened his country to free commercial intercourse with Russia, owing to the good quality of its products. The Economist asserts that the contracts which have been entered into for the purchase of land in New Zealand have been cancelled owing to the Land and Income Tax Act. Sir Vernon Harcourt declared that if Parnell remains stiff-necked and seditious, he jeopardised the help of the Liberals in assisting Ireland to procure Home Rule.

The House of Commons of the Dominion Parliament has by a majority of 15, adopted the report of the Committee of enquiry into the charges of corruption levelled at Thomas McGreevy, and Sir H. Langevin, in which it was recommended that the former be expelled from Parliament, while in the latter's case the Committee were unable to agree to his guilt. China has appealed to the remainder of the Powers to suspend action until the result of her efforts to restore order is seen.

A number of British subjects have been arrested at Otin Kiang on a charge of smuggling arms and dynamite ir.to the country to assist Chinese rebels, and they have been handed over to the English officials.

The Berlin newspapers warn the Germans against assisting to float a Russian loan, despite the fact that the Government is encouraging Messrs Mendellsohn and Waschaberto assist its issue. The Czar and Czarina passed through

Berlin on Friday night privately. Considerable alarm has been occasioned throughout Roumania at Russia massing 100.060 men at Bessarabia, on the borders of Roumania.

It is reported that Russia is concluding a treaty with Persia, virtually excluding other nations' commerce, and securing a practical protectorate over all Central

Asia. The British, Italian, and Austrian diplomatic agents have been authorised to carry on a more free intercourse with Prince Ferdinand. London market cablegram, dated 25 th September, per New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company :—Tallow— There is less demand for fine mutton tallow, but there is an improved enquiry for other descriptions. Medium mutton tallow is worth 27s 3d per cwt ; good beef 26s per cwt. Frozen Meat—Mutton market firmer. Price of mutton has advanced per lb since last report. Beef market dull, N.Z. beef, hindquarters, is worth 4d per lb. Other quotations unchanged. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND Last Night, Tha only eanffiJgtas proposal fit Waikato are Mr Lake, Opoosltion, and M<- Mnrrav, IndeoGnJent, Both are format 1 members ot the House. Dr Broom retired in favor of McMurray, W. V. Bindon, who is aoauaed of Indecent assault (a ossa which stands over from the last criminal sessions), has been arrested at Hokianqa lor having an illicit still in his possession. John Nelson, an old nattier, died at Titirangi, where he has lived many years. Government have ordered surveyors to prepare working plans of ths Hlkurangi Kamo Railway extension at once, so as to commence operations immediately. The Waiuku Cavalry Corps, which has won Lord Onslow’s medal here two years in succession, decided to send two teame tn compete in the military tournament at Wellington. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. A small rush has set in at Crown Terrace, at Arrowton. Last week two ounces of gold were obtained on a load ot dirt. Seventy acres have been pegged off. The gold 13 ooaree. The man drowned in Oamaru Harbor on nn Friday night did not belong to the Wairos. He ie gt present not identified. His death ie a mystery, as the place where he was drowned is an out ot the way corner ot the harbor where ho could not have been on business. Conedge'a jewellery ehop la Palmerston North was broken into on Saturday night and £2O worth of goods etolen. The bu-glar was disturbed and left behind him a saok, containing a large amount of jewellery. There is no traoe of the burglar. William Thomson, a retired publican, committed suicide yesterday morning at Dunedin, by shooting himself with a revolver, the muzzle of which he plaoed in hie mouth and then fired. The reasons for the suiolde are not known, The deceased was a widower with no family, hut he had adopted two boys whose father died some years ago. He was in very comfortable circumstances, though it is understood he had sustained some losses recently.

Jas. Pilbrow was drowned at the mouth of the Rakaia this morning. He was engaged river fishing, when a wave came and washed him off his feet into the stream, and carried him out to sea, Ho was a men unlvorsaliy respected, and loaves r, large fainily> mostly grown up.

Since the Government Labor Bureau was instituted at the end of June, the Wellington branch has found employment for 920 men, and Dunedin and Christchurch branches 231. Besides these 105 unemployed are at Gatlins river, and the Pahiatua relief works absorbed 126.

The test piece for the band contest is a selection by Rossini, arranged by H. Round, of Liverpool. The following have entered —lnvercargill Garrison, Invercargill Oi'y, Queenstown City, Girrison, Dunedin Garrison, Ordnance Engimera, Ksikorai, Roslyn Mills, Oamaru Garrison and Naval, Waimate Rifles, Christchurch Garrison, Slanmoro Aiiiiing'on Workshops, Wellington Garrison, Westport. The ease of D. J. Rago v. Public Trustee beaan in the Supreme Court b-fore Judge Richmond to day. Ths plaintiff sues aS daughter and next of kin of Hugh Wright, formerly a carrier in Lincoln road, Christchurch, and now an incurable lunatic, andjp e ids that the estate has been squandered by the Public Trustee in wasteful expenditure, a r d prays for a proper statement of anoounts and 1 hat the eetate be taken from the Publie Trust Office. The defence is a general denial of the allegations.