NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 678, 29 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

> [Special to the Standard.] ; BRITISH AND FOREIGN. r ■■ 1 !■■■ ■■■ f The winter sowing in the famine f stricken districts has Degun. . The town of Meringen, Germany, . has almost entirely been destroyed by : fire. I The Manchester Chamber of Com--1 tnerce declares that the McKinlay tariff is injuring trade The Rev Mr Spurgeon has gone to Mentone, in the south of France, for 1 the benefit of his health. At the grain sales there were no i offers for Australian wheat, while for 1 N.Z. wheat 42s were bid. The Great Northern Railway Com--1 panv has abolished second class . carriages on its lines One of the sixty-seven ton guns on , board H.M.S Howe, one of the Chan- > nel squadron, has cracked ’ The English wheat market is firmer, 1 the American is steady, while the j Continental shows a declining teni dency, Mr Dillon advises hie followers to ! conduct the political struggle in a constitutional way and keep peace I with the English members. Mrs Parnell has warned the Paris ' bankers not to part with the funds deposited in their hqnda by her late 1 husband. Canon Dr Traspaget, of Oxford, ' succeeds the Rev. H. Liddell, Dean of Christchurch, Oxford, who resigns at 1 Christmas. Messrs Nelson Bros, are building a freegingstore st Southwqrk, in Surrey, on the south-east bank of the Thames,

capable of holding 180,000 carcases of mutton on stock. The Canadian Pacific Company are building three steamers to run between Vancouver and Australia. The Turkish Government is qgain urging England to enfer into negotiations for the evacuation of Egypt by the British. The Rothschilds advance the Bank of Spain a sum of one hundred million pesetes for three years, to enable payments of coupons on foreign debt. Floods in Limour, a town on Oarcasonne, on the Guillan line of railway, have destroyed several houses, and twenty persons were killed. The French Government propose that provisional arrangements be made with the Great Powers pending the ratifying of new commercial treaties, A murder has taken place in Berlin, surrounded with circumstances similar to thpse attributed to Jack the Ripper in London and the United States. The Pooe urges the Archbishop of Aix to oppose to the uttermost the claim of Falliere’s authority over the clergy, and he fears that the recent events are qnly a prelude of worse tq come. AUegpd details of the outrage committed on the sailors belonging to the American warship Baltimore at Valparaiso, show that one hundred Chilians dragged one of the blue jackets off a tram car, and shot him dead. Several others were severely injured by bayonet stabs, including one officer. Thirty-five were imprisoned. The former Oamaru loan has fallen R per ueni.

Eight thousand nailmakers in the Midland Counties have struck against a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. Sir Saul Satnuel, speaking at the Australian Students’ Club dinner, reseated the vile abuse which globetrotters heap upon the colonies, and declared that the colonies would never repudiate, and would always regard their obligations as sacred.

The United States Minister in Chili, demands that the refugees in the American Legation shall be safely conducted from the country, but the Chilian Government refuse to accede to the request on the ground that a number of criminals are among the refugees.

In a circu'ar to Her Majesty the Pope states that the sanction of the August Temple was violated by visitors, the Pontiff rudely and bitterly insulted, and the Catholic name loaded with abuse. The Archbishop of Aix has received numerous expressions of sympathy, and the general opinion is that it will be a mistake for the French Government to prosecute him. Sir John Gorst, speaking to his constituents, said the crux of the labor question was to keep the people on the land, and unless the present situation was amended the alternative effect would be a revolt.

The Australian Trading World urges the exchange of Oamaru Harbor Board bonds for Government stocks on the ground that the railways destroyed the revenue of the Board. Edison’s invention has been applied to railways, and under his system three stationary engines will be adequate to control the whole of the traffic of the New York and Philadelphia line, at whatever speed is desired. It is proposed to run elec'ric trains between Milwaukee and Chicago during the World’s Fair. Rails will be utilised for transmitting the electric current, and the whole sy-tem can be worked with perfect safety. The Exchange feeling is incredulous of the possibility of issue of another Victorian loan. In the present temper of financiers there is little chance of its being successfully floated except at a low minimum It is reported that th" leading Banka decline to issue any early Colonial loans. Mr Rowan, of Melbourne, who has been investigating the manner in which colonial meat, is sold in London, oon« •riders it inadvisable to send any one from Australia to manage the London sales of frozen meat, as there is no suspicion of any unfair dealings, and he declares that the existing system at Smithfield is excellent.