DESERTING PARNELL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 609, 19 May 1891, Page 2

DESERTING PARNELL.

REPORTED DEFECTIONS FROM IHE RANKS. It is expected that Messrs Dwyer, Gray, Timothy, Hannington, Nolan and other Home Rulers will shortly desert Mr Parnell, “MORALLX AND POLITICALLY UNFIT." At the annual convention of the Irish National League of Great Britain, it was unanimously resolved that Mr Parnell is both morally and politically unfit to be further trusted. WORN-OUT POLITICIANS. POOR OLD MACDONALD. It is feared that Sir J. MacDonald, the elderly Premier of Canada, suffers from paralysis of the throat. MR BLAINE BROKEN DOWN. Mr J. G. Blaine has broken down physically, and it is thought he will not be able to stand the strain of the fight for the United States Presidency.

THE GERMAN EMPEROR’S VISIT TO LONDON. The London City has voted £3,000 to prepare a suitable reception for the German Emperor on July 10th. The Queen will accompany him to Guildhall. INFLUENZA VICTIMS. The deaths are announced of Edwin Long, and Thomas Collier R.A., from influenza, and of H. Thompson, editor of the Referee. Bishop Moorhouse is suffering from influenza. THE CRISIS IN PORTUGAL. It is stated that the King of Portugal is inclined to abdicate. The Government intends toissuea papercurrency, and there is a panic among depositors. It is reported the King is summoning a Council of Republicans. The Portuguese Ministry has resigned. The financial crisis still continues. A NIHILIST’S ATTEMPT. The Czarewitch has recovered from the wound inflicted on him by a would-be assassin. The Mikado, accompanied by the Imperial Princes, paid the Czarewitch a visit, and saw him embark. It is now believed that the man who made the attack upon the Czarewitch’s life at Kioto was a Nihilist, and that he succeeded in making his escape. THE POPE FIRES A BROADSIDE FOR UNIONISM. Unionists are elated to find that His Holiness the Pope has thrown much of his weight on the Unionist side. In his encyclical letter he maintains that the Church is the principal solvent of the Labor question, and that the State must aid itself by benefiting workers. He contends that the State ought to assist trade unionism. ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. Adraft agreement between England and Portugal, with reference to the South African territory has| been signed, and has produced an excellent effect in Lisbon. Portugal receives the triangular territory fifty thousand square miles in extent. It is bounded by the Pungwe and Zambesi rivers, and by a line from Maranda to the junction of the Shire and Ruo rivers. England obtains the rectified frontier of Manicaland, and the right of passage over the Limpopo. It is reported that England is negotiating with Portugal for the purchase of Goa, a seaport town, and the territory between the boundries of Madras and Bombay.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. George P. Pierce, Manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, fell dead in ths Waikomiti cemetery yesterday, while he was shewing his wife over the cemetery. Death is attributed to heart disease. Pierce had been complaining of a pain in his cheat which he thought arose from indigestion. The directors of the Prospectors' mine at Puhipuhi ordered a teat of a six cwt. sample of ore to ascertain the value of the generat stuff. The result is 60 ozs, 0! bullion to ths ton. It has not been refined to see what gold 'here is with the silver, which is worth at least 5s per ounce. At tha Police Court thia morning a quietlooking little boy named Clement Crook, about 7 years nt age, was charged with having on the 10 h of May, at Ponsonby. unlawfully and maliciously wounded Prank Frederick Roach Mitchell, who is only 8 years of age. Inspector Broham said he must ask for a remand, as the other boy was at the point of death. The boy has since died. The injured boy was residing with Mrs Matilda Worms, who had adopted him. About noon on Saturday he was sent a message, and in about half an hour he returned, accompanied by another boy named Salvador. He was bleeding from the forehead, and he told her that “ Bond's boy ” had thrown a glass at him, Portions ol the glass were taken from the wound. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. Nearly 100 men have sent in their names at Wellington, as wi'ling to accept the relief work offered by the government at road making near Pahjatua. Captain Richardson, who was in charge of the Mahinapua when she met with the accident at Westport, has retired from the Union Company's service. Five draymen engaged oarling wool from inland Patea, were fined one shilling and costs, at the Napier R.M. Court, for following thrir avocation on Sunday. Mr Godfrey Saddler, when trying to catch a horse at Urenui on Friday last, got kicked by the animal in the stomach. On Saturday morning the doctor was sent for, but Saddler died before his arrival. Saddler was a cadet on Haloombe's farm at Urenui. It is said that an attempt is to be made to unseat the Sydanham Licensing Committee, on the grounds that as the members have stated their intention of dealing with *ll applications in a certain way, by refusing all licensee, they are incapable of considering them in a judicial manner, and are therefore ineligible to discharge the duties of a Committee under the Act.