GENERAL SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8862, 21 July 1890, Page 4

GENERAL SUMMARY.

A syndioate of American capitalists and British bankers propose to buy up the gasworks of the principal American cities.

Great importance Is attached to Eusala's demand on Turkey for the immediate payment of the war indemnity, and it is thought that it portends another war.

A Kornan Catholic priest named Crowley was sentenced to one month'i imprisonment for intimidating a Protaßtant clergyman at Scull. The scholars of the convent school in Tipperary atruck on Juno 20 against allowing the children of the constabulary to be present.

The White Star s.s. Doric olalms to have madothD fastest vojage round the world, in 77d 6h 50mhi,tbe distance steamed bMng 28,003 milea. The census of 1890 Bhows San Francisco to have a population of 500,000. Bu mess in San Franoißco Is dull owing to the labour troubles.

An ironrnoulder waj.shot in a scuffle with his employer on June 26, Mexico is meDaced with a revolution Bgainst the Diaz regime.

The Liverpool Board of Trade gave judgment against Captain Young in the matter of the steamer City of Home, whioh rp.n on Fastnet Eock while under his command. They found the accident to be due to the failure on Captain Youug'i part to attend to the warnings of the lead.

A report just published la London shows almost Incrediblo transactions of the co-operative societies in Grc.it Brit.-.in. It shows that the wa-;e earners own 'warly £500.000,000 of stjck; that during the past 25 years they have divided £10,000,000 In profit?; p.nd that the total sales of last year (1859) exceed tho:e of the one precadingby £2,000,000. Oh •!<,'.:o 3 Lord Uipon presented to Cardinal Mannicy., on behalf of the congregation of the Fro-Cath-iiUal.a chequo for £2676; and an illuminated addrsss was presented to him on his silver jubilee. Tha Dnke of Orleans arrived in London on Juno 7 from Belgium. His fatber, the Count of Paris, and •10 of hia friends gave him a hearty welcome at Dover. In an interview h« said that he felt confident that he would yet be called to the throne of Franca.

Kerr (the champion tennis phver of Ireland) defeated P. ttitt (the champion of America) in a match plajcii at Dublin on June 11 for the world's cbampionahip. The score stood at three to nothing. The degree of Doctor of Civil Law has fccsn conferred upon Stanley by Oxford Uuiversity. A severe earthquake 'occurred in the Department of Jura on June 11 and 12, causing great damage in the viciuity of the Jura mountains. The psople were panic-stricken, and since the flrafc ishoak have refused to enter their houaea. Thousands of men, women, and children are omped in the open fields, but DO loss of life is reported, though a large amount of property has been destroyed. 2t was privately reported in Berlin on June 6 that vervsorioun results may yet follow from the Kaiser's carriage) accident. In falling he injured the ear that has already caused him 60 much trouble, and which has been in a terrible condition ever since. He is quite aware of the Berious nature of his hurts. The Kinperor William is eaid to have already made arrangements to appoint the Empress and bis brother Heinrich as regents in case of his death or of his becoming incapacitated as the result of his injuries.

The Jews had a hard time in Lithuania, at a twn called Loholsk, where, during an anti-Semitic riot, most of their houses wore wrecked, and they themBelves nearly beaten to death.

Six thousand rioters bssieged tbe home of Captain Gibbon, of the Salvation Army, at Barmen. Ho turned on a hoae, and the mob s.ickel the premises. Mauy policemon were ceriouily injured by the rioters.

Mrs Francos Hodgson Burnett's son Cedric, the original of Little Lord Fauutlerny, is dying of consumptiouat Wayne, near Philalelphla. The Reformed Presbyterian Cyn;d session at New York on June 5 pronounced very strongly pgalmt secret societies, particularly the Masonic, b.iay.

The United Pre3bvterlan Assembly at Euffalo on the same date set its face strongly against chewing gum and tobacco, many favouring the expulsion of members addicted to the weel.

The Tablet, the London Catholic organ, printed on Juno 7 an account of an Interview with the Pope, in which the Pontiff eaid: " The persecution of me and the church in Italy is increasing. Twelve years have I teen confinci within these walls, and withiu these last few years tho offences charged agalnßt me have become intensified. While I live I roust protest againit and expose the blasphemous way Italy treated the Holy See." He expressed the determination to remain in the Vatican and defend the rights of the Papacy. Countesa yon Luetzot, charged at Beiiin with making her fashionable residence in Khergarten tho scene of outrageous conduct, in which many members of the German nobility take part, waa tried, behind closed doors, on June 10. The cisc waa made public through th 3 arrest of the Countess for attempting to Btrangle a servant girl who threatened to disclose to the police what went on within the house. Although the public •were excluded from the court room, it is known I hat Prince Saxe Altenbsrg, Count yon Kotze, Fran Grohnewaldt (the singer), and many members of tbe nobility in tho capital were among the witneißta summoned.

The American Government havo been advised by the Mexican Minister that an English Company haa endeavoured to seize Lower California through the concessions made them by President Dhz. It ia recommended that tho officials be bnnished the country on pain of death if they return, and that their entire property ta confiscated. The English Government.it in suggested, would demur to these summary proceedings, and two or three men-of-war sent to protect the company would no doubt lead to a reconsideration on the part of Mexico. Scottison ia the general manager of the English Company, and there ia a report that Clause Sprrcklea 'ia implicated in the scheme, but this he denies. The enemies of President Dinz, who are fomenting a revolution against him, are making capital out of the affair.

Lord Salisbury's agreement with Germany on African matters, in the traoaferenca of Heligoland ami other acts, has hastened thi mobilisation of the French navy, which was not expeoted till August. Orders have'been r.ent to ths navnl 'prefects at Cherbourg, Kochc-fort, Breit, anil Lorient for the immediate nrepiratlon of their fleeta, and the contingents are, according to a despatch of June 21, such as are seldom issues unlesß for serious re.isoua.

Tho British Foreign Office ia said to be very ob:tinate, and refuses to compromise on the Newfoundland claims with the same poßitivencsa it does on the Bebriug Sp.i question. The French Minister of Foreign Affalra is equally firm on hia side. The whole controversy cuuea much uneasiness in European commercial centres.