NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 670, 10 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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[Special to the Standard.]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Sir John Pope Hennessy is dead. The United States gunboat Yorksown has been ordered to China. The lightermen, yielding to pressure, have given way, and joined the strike. The Melbourne butter export to London is expected to be heavy this year. The King of Wurtemberg died from heart disease. Mr W. H. Smith, the leader of the House of Commons, died from the effects of overwork. Charles Stewart Parnell died at Brighton on Monday night, at the age of 45. Reports vary as to the cause of of death. It is supposed that it was acute rheumatism resulting from a chill. Mr Gladstone, in a ietter to the Press, predicts an early reunion of the Presbyterian bodies, and also of the Baptists and Congregationalists, but thinks it will be difficult to include Methodists.

The Holy Coat of Treves will not be walled up again, as was formerly done when the period of exhibition had passed, but will be placed in the Cathedral treasury. Leading members of the French New Hebrides Company told Sir G. Berry, Agent-General of Victoria, that M. Ribote, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, seemed disposed to consider proposals to exchange French interests in the group for an equivalent elsewhere. A number of the Canadian lumbermen who went out on strike have returned to work, the masters having conceded shorter hours.

Dalgety and Co,, London, have declared a dividend of 8 per cent, per annum, £lO,OOO being added to the reserve fund, while £5OOO has been carried forward to next year’s account. Bishop Moorhouse, speaking at the Church Congress at Rhyl, declared that the proposal to disendow the Church of England in Wales meant piecemeal disendowment of the Church of England. He asserted that the voluntary system, in Australia was unable to prevent growing neglect, though the working man was comparatively rich. Since Mr W. H. Smith's death it has been made public that when the Baring crisis was imminent he offered Mr Lidderkdale, Governor of the Bank of England, £lOO,OOO of his own money if the money could avert the crisis. The offer was, however, declined. Mr Justin McCarthy said to an interviewer that he was inexpressibly grieved and shocked at Mr Parnell’s sudden death, though it would bring peace and heal the breach between the two sections of the Irish party. They would now join forces again, and place the cause of Home Rule beyond danger. The Parnellites are holding a conference in Dublin.

London market cablegram, per New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, dated 7th October 1 — Wool — The sales closed firmly this day. Since close of last sales greasy merino super, fine, and medium greasy crossbred are par to }4d per lb lower. Scoured merino super, greasy, washed, and scoured merino medium and inferior, fine, washed and scoured crossbred are id to ij£d per lb lower. Coarse, greasy, crossbred has declined about Jid per lb. Medium washed and scoured crossbred are id per lb lower. Coarse scoured crossbred, greasy merino lamb, super and greasy crossbred lamb, are to id per lb lower. Greasy merino lamb, medium and inferior, are jid per lb lower. The total quantity sold during the past sales is 300,000 bales, of which 17,000 have been taken for the Continent, and 123,000 bales for America. It is estimated that 50,000 bales have been held over for future disposal.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last Night, The ship Waitangi, from London, reports the loss overboard of James Cooper, boatswain, aged 37. The Auckland and Wellington teams play an Association football match here tomorrow, but ns the game has only been played here five weeks the local men expect a defeat. The parents of the lad Gnortre Thomas, whose body was ejhumed at Hakaru, have been committed for trial for cruel treatment, which is alleged to have accelerated hie death. , , George Underhill has been arrested at Poroti, near Whangarei, and a still and a quantity of whisky have been found on hie premises. Mr Colquon, an old resident, has died suddenly at Russell. Henry Atkins hag been oommutea fqr trial on account of the recent jewellery robbery at Devonport. The Alameda, which is to take the outward mails, arrived from Sydney this afterriobg. The Mariposa, with the English mails, arrived to-day.