NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 677, 27 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[Special to the Standard.]

BRITISH AND -FOREIGN.

Sir Saul Samuel denies that the New South Wales loan recently issued was absorbed by accommodation bills at local banks.

The French Government is pressing the Czar to pay a visit to Paris. Influenza of a very virulent type is prevalent at Vilna, in Russia. The United States Government have demanded from the Chilian Government an apology and indemnity for an outrage on the crew of the cruiser Baltimore. The printers throughout Germany have decided to go out on strike in a fortnight, unless their demand for a nine hours’ day is conceded. The agitation is spreading to Austria.

Two members of the Quebec Assembly, Messrs Robert McGreevy and Owen Murphy, have been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the colony of 400,000 dol, but have escaped.

A bomb was thrown into a military train in Bessarabia, and the explosion killed ten soldiers, and wounded six others.

Frosts in Russia are increasing the districts among the peasants. The paper Novosti estimates that 20,000,000 of the Russian peasantry arealready without food, and attributes great corruption to those administering relief. Several thousand women are selling their hair in order to purchase food. Many deaths from starvation, especially of children, are reported. One hundred thousand Americans who petitioned the Czar in favor of the Jews are subscribing a large amount in aid of the Russian peasantry, and are also shipping large quantities of food to Russian porta to assist the sufferers. The Ameer of Bokhara has consented to Russians collecting the Customs duties on frontiers of Afghanistan and also to a Russian garrison being stationed at Dzijak. The Economist considers the New Zealand Government had better waive some of its rights with regard to the Oamaru Harbor Board, and assist in bearing the loss. Information has been receiyed that the native attack on French missions in Portuguese Guinea, Africa, is not of a serious nature, and that the French claims there have now been admitted. It is reported that several London and Liverpool produce merchants have united to proceed against the New Zealand Shipping Company, in order to test the position of consignees and the Company with regard to damaged produce by steamers from the colony. The Hon. Mr Balfour, speaking at Bury, Lancashire, declared that the concession of the one man one vote principle at parliamentary elections would involve woman suffrage, and would lead to a reduction of Irish representation in the House of Commons. The system, he alleged, would also introduce a minority representation. He ridiculed the prospects of the variety programme drawn up by Mr Gladstone at the National Liberal Federation which met recently at Newcastle.

London market cablegram, per New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, dated 23rd October :—Tallow market inactive. Tallow has declined nominally 6s per cwt. since last report. Frozen meat—Market quiet. N.Z. beef, hindquarters, is worth 3j4d per lb. Other quotations unchanged since last cablegram.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND. Last Night, A number of assaults on females, evidently by some man, and in broad daylight, has been reported to the police, The Hon. W. P. Reeves arrived at Rotorua overland from Gisborne. He visited eighteen native schools on the route, and found them satisfactory. Frank Lawry, M.H.R., has been requested by Government to undertake an investigation into the nature and efficiency of the various remedies employed for the destruction of rabbits, with a view to the adoption of some systematic action. At Taiaru yesterday a young man, 19 years of age, named George Ourran. had his right hand blown off by an explosion of dynamite, while another lad, about 15, named George Kimlin, was also injured, but much less seriously. The ship Waitangi is lying in harbor, in readiness to sail for Gisborne, where she loads, SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The Rev; W, Bowse, who was for many years a, Maori missionary, states that the condition of the natives in the Wairarapa at the present time is deplorable, and they have less respect for Christianity than they had before the Maori war. The steamer Jubilee, which left Wellington for Sydney on Saturday, took 130 passengers, and the Waihora, leaving on the same afternoon, had 185. Among the latter were a number qf local bootmakers, principally single men. J. Gostring, foreman in the Union Company at Wellington, died on Saturday. He had been a great many years in the employ of the Company, A Society has been formed in Wellington on a co-operative basis on the lines of the Canterbury Farmers' Alliance. H.M.B, Tauranga and Bingarooma, of the Auxiliary Squadron, are at Port Chalmers. T The men at the' Eatone railway workshops have decided against a holiday bn Demonstration Day, Mr B. D. Hoben, of the Woodville Examiner Office, went to the Ruabine ranges yesterday, and was lost in the bush. Search patties are out, Joseph Kennedy was killed on Saturday in Upper Blackball (near Greymoutb). by an immense slip of earth and trees, He saw thebanger soon enough to warn his mates, who saved themselves.' Thnqgh Demonstration Dev is not a general holi iay in the Post and Telegraph Department arrangements will bs made to relieve from duty as many officra as possible. The old established Wellington business of Kennedy MacDonald and Co. will ba converted into a joint stock company, owing to Mr MacDonald's portion as M HB, rendering it impossible for bitn to hnderjake Government business. General Boo't) had great reqeptlon at Wellington, There was a lafga procession on Saturday. The attests were decorated with strings of flags, Thors was a toroblight rro-oes-ion in the evening, Three meetings wore held in the Opera House yesterday, at all of which General Booth delivered addresses. Mr’Cadman, on behalf ef the Government, h»a written to Generaj Booth, offering to supply him with any New Zealand’etatiatioa he may require.