NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 676, 24 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[Special to the Standard.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The priests have selected Michael Davitt as their candidate for the North Kilkenny seat. John Redmond has applied for the Chiltern Hundreds, and will contest the Cork vacancy. He states that the party who supported Parnell will preserve their independence until such a time as the people of Ireland have had an opportunity of declaring their wishes. The Czar will probably reach Berlin on Thursday.

Four hundred horses have been burned at Lida, near Giodna. The Czar gives three million roubles in aid of the distressed peasants. The German military attache at Vienna by command of the Kaiser, declared an alliance between Germany and Austria indissoluble, and that no power on earth could ever part the nations.

The Pope, in a letter to the Great Powers, declares it impossible that the Vatican and Qulrinal can continue to jointly occupy Rome. The Western Union Telegraph Co. cut off the New York Associated Press from the use of their lines because the latter owed them £lO,OOO. The press declares they will use telephones for the despatch of messages. The Government have proceeded against Mr A. Senecal, late Government printer, for recovery of i;.ooodol., which is said to have been received in bribes. In the meantime Senecal’s property has been attached. It is reported that members of the Cabinet have handed in their resignation to the Premier, in consequence of. the strictures passed upon the Ministry in connection with the recent scandals.

The Chilian sailors are constantly threatening the men belonging to the United States warships, alleging that they showed partiality to President Balmaceda during the struggle. The United States squadron in Chilian waters will be reinforced.

Sixty labor unions, representing one hundred and fifty thousand men employed in northern Industries, met at Darlington and agreed to federate. Sir Charles Dilke declares that the British occupation of Egypt closely resembles the French occupation of Rome.

The Standard correspondent wires that King Humbert has assured the Pope that nothing shall occur to disturb the Vatican. Oamaru Harbor Board debentures are quoted at 60. The Financial News says that the Harbor Board is engaged upon works quite bevond the need of their business, and adds that this is the true colonial way.

Mr Parnell died intestate. The Russian Government is stopping the export of buckwheat and millet. The German Government proposes to spend ten million marks in fortifying Heligoland. Captain Shaw receives a pension of £lOOO on his retiring from the Superintendency of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades. French “models” engaged in Paris struck as a protest against the employment of foreigners. A train was derailed at Monmouth, in Illinois, io persons being killed and many injured. A band of fifty Albanian brigands attacked a party of Montenegrian travellers, killing five of them. The Marquis of Salisbury has called upon the Canadian Government to furnish a report on the state of the defences of the Dominion. Several firms in Moscow have suspended payment. The liabilities of one of them amounted to £480,000. The Freeman’s Journal thinks it is hopeless to look for union between the two sections of the Irish Party. The Trades Unions are protesting against the present riverside strike, at which the strikers are very excited. The stevedores have refused to go out on strike, and a split in the ranks of the labor party is imminent. The Shipping Federation is discussing the crisis. The engineers and firemen have withdrawn from the strike.

The Daily Chronicle’s Rome correspondent considers that the stoppage of pilgrims to Rome severs the Pope from the Catholic world. The R'ome correspondent of the Standard wires that the Cardinals are discussing the situation, but as yet have not come to any decision. Menotti Garribaldi, at whose instigation the veterans of the Italian war of independence recently passed a resolution in favor of abolishing the article in the Constitution making Romanism the State religion, has convened a public meeting. He maintains that the Pope is amenable to the common law.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last Night, The Kapanga Mine at Coromandel, which is owned in England, has struck rich gold, the stuff going 30 ozs to the dish. The Governor is liberating several pairs of partridges in the Auckland district. A lad named Worthington had his arm caught in the machinery of the Onehunga Iron Works, and it was torn off. The brigantine Sarah Pile, which was The Rev. G. H. Preston, who was engaged by St. Mary's on a seven years' agreement, resigned in consequence of a strong expression of opinion from the Synod against limiting the term of the incumbency. recently ashore at Tairua. was bought by Mr Gouk at auction to-day for Zl6O, Ths following were passengers for Gisborne by the Tekapo to-day I—Mesdames Davies and family, Heany and three children, C. B. Weston, and J, B. White. Mr William Aitken, land agent, is giving General Booth 3,800 acres of land at Northern Walroa, for the purposes of his scheme.

The Anglican Synod has adopted a resolution in favor of Bible reading and the recital of the Lord's Prayer In the public schools,