BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 514, 4 October 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The cholera took one thousand lives in Spain last month. The Emperor of Germany received an ovation in Austria.

The Dockers’ Congress holds that it is impolitic to block Australian ships. Plymouth is to be defended by the Brennan torpedo.

Faulty scoured wools are slightly easier. Other sorts are firm. The American Tariff Bill has received the President’s signature. The dockers’ fighting fund is to be increased to £60,000. The Pope is willing to arbitrate in the New Foundland fisheries dispute. Moussa Bey has been imprisoned at Constantinople. A syndicate including Lord Hartington, the Rothschilds, and Barnes, is willing to build a fast line of Atlantic steamers if Canada will subsidise it.

A young woman named Gertrude Cronn, who, it is thought, has relations at Wangarata, Victoria, committed suicide at Hereford. She suffered under the hysterical delusion that she had been seduced on the voyage to England. Sir Thos. Feake, a Baronet, has been arrested on a charge of decoying a gentleman named Edward Gibson into the cellar of an empty mansion. It is alleged that while there he obtained from Gibson the key to the latter’s locker at St. George’s Club, and removed therefrom and destroyed a number of letters written by .Gibson’s mistress, also a number of her photos. Feake is also charged with forging the name of Gibson to a telegram.