GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates to January 12.)
On the 12th the Bank of England reduced its rate of discount from 4 to 3| per cent.
Ringold Cooper, an American forger, was arrested in Paris on January 12 on an extradition warrant for forgery on the London and Westminster Bank, by which he realised £3600.
A dense fog prevailed on the Irish coast on January 8, and the steamer Wisconsin was unable to land the mails at Queenstown, In a collision between the steamers Shortham and Catstrop, off Dover, the former sunk and seven persons were drowned. 'ihe London Daily News correspondent at Constantinople writes on January 6 : — " The Porte learns that Lord Salisbury has informed tho German Government that if war should bo occasioned by the attempt of Russia to occupy Bulgaria, England will eend two squadrons to the Black Sea."
The remains of Napoleon 111 and his son the Prince Imperial were removed from Chiselhurst to Farnborough on January 9. They will be deposited in the mausoleum erected by exEmpress Eugenic.
Trouble has occurred among the crofters of Aigash, in'.lnverness-shire, Scotland. Landless crofters to the number of 1000 drove the sheep
off some farms, and offered determined resistance to the police. Troops were sent to the scene on January 8. Numbers were wounded on both sides, and many crofters were arrested.
The friends of Sir Charles Dilke are agitating the proposition that a seat must be found for him in Parliament.
On the 4th of January the Prince of Wales took pains to deny the story that he was a member of the Smith-Ktlrain banquet committee.
A fight has been arranged between Jack Burke, the Australian champion, and Kilrain, the American bruiser.
On January 2 the London Times celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of its foundation.
Numerous New Year honours were conferred by Queen Victoria. Among persons .distinguished were Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who was made a civil C.8., and Mr Browning, Mr Balfour's secretary, who became a civil companion of the same order.
It is announced that Parnell will resume the active leadership of the Irish party some time during Jauuary, and will summon a meeting of his colleagues.
Tho Crown Prince of Greece will visit London in May to be formally betrothed to his cousiu, Princess Victoria of Wales.
In the Supreme Court, Washington, on January 9,' the Attorney-general of Missouri sub-
mitted a motion to dismiss, for want of jurisdiction, the case of Hugb>M. Brookes alias W. H. Maxwell, who is now in prison in St. Louis under sentence of death for the murder of Charles A. Preller. The Attorney-general maintained that the case did not present a federal question, and that the court cannot take federal jurisdiction over it. Counsel for the prisoner argued in a voluminous brief > many of the reasons given being similar to those which were urged in the case of the Anarchists. The motion of the Attorney-general of Missouri has virtually the effect of bringing Maxwell's case before the court at once on its merits, and if the motion to dismiss it be granted, it will of course be equivalent to an affirmation of the sentence of death pronounced by the State law. Returns issued by the British Board of Trade on January 9 show that the imports for the month preceding increased £3,162,800 as compared with the corresponding month in 1886, and that the exports for the same month increased £3,200,000. It is proposed to devote the surplus of the women's jubilee offering to the foundation of an institution in London for the maintenance and education of nurses to attend poor people in their homes. There will be branches in the principal cities of the realm. Special police protection has been accorded Mr Balfour.
The Prisons Board has ordered that Father Matthew Ryan, who is in prison under the Crimes Act, be permitted to wear his own clothes and underwear.
The Irish National League receipts from America, which have been very small since 1885, are still falling off. The Privy Council at a meeting on January 2 resolved to suppress the league in London, and thus cripple the central executive.
Cullimore, the Plan of Campaign leader on the Kingston estate, was arrested on January 2 on a charge of inciting tenants to illegal acts. The tenants of this estate held a meeting on the same day, Mr Condon presiding, and adopted resolutions declaring the land commissioners, reductions of judicial rents inadequate, and that there would continue to be a Plan of Campaign until the evicted tenants were reinstated, and that they would appeal for greater reductions. The freedom of the City of Dublin has been conferred upon Mr Sullivan, ex-Lord Mayor. Lord Clanricarde is engaged in wholesale eviction out of revenge for the castigation he got in the libel suit on the 3rd January. He applied for 150 writs, and has lodged £5000 to his agent's credit at the bank to enable him to carry on the war. Bad and bloody work is anticipated if troops are 6ent to aid the landlord. The incarceration of Mr Wilfrid Blunt, in Galway, on January 6, caused a disturbance and a collision between the people and police, in which swords and batons were freely used. Mr Shaw Lefevre arrived at Balipasloe on the 7th and made a speech protesting against Mr Bluut'o imprisonment. The demonstrations in honour of Mr Sullivan, ex-Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Mr O'Brien on their release from prison and their return to London were organised on a great scale. En route to Italy, Mr Gladstone, ex-Premier, indulged in some utterances during a speech at Dover about Protection that are exciting a certain amount of uneasiness among his Freetrade friends. At Florence on January 1 he was the recipient of a grand demonstration and a serenade. He afterwards received a deputation of citizens, who expressed the admiration of the Liberal democracy of Italy for the ex-Premier's political achievements. Mr Gladstone, who responded in Italian, thanked them for their kind wishes. The Italian papers of the 2nd say the distinguished visitor will treat with the Vatican for its support in the efforts being made made to obtain autonomy for Ireland, M. Persico having commenced negotiations. Prince Ferdinand has declared he will rather die on the battle-field than abdicate the Bulgarian throne. Morrison and Morton's furniture factory and the printing rooms ol the Daily Post, Birmingham, were destroyed by fire on January 13. Notwithstanding all remonstrance, the Rev. Mr Spurgeon insists on resigning from the Baptist Union.
A son of the Comte de Paris and a son of the Due de Chartres have joined the Russian army. Grand Duke Alexis has been promoted to the rank of admiral.
The Alharabra Theatre at Antwerp was burned on January 2. The mother of the reigning Duke of SaxeMeiningen died on January 2. Harry Herz, the pianist, died in Paris on January 6. General Herman Kauzer, formerly head of the Potifical Army, died in Rome on January 6. The Italian Academy of Science has awarded the World's prize of 12,000f to M. Pasteur. It was reported from Berlin on January 12 that a general blockade of Bulgaria is contemplated by the Powers in the event of Prince Ferdinand's refusal to resign the Bulgarian throne. From Vienna, on the same date, came ths statement that the Powers would ask the Porte to summon Prince Ferdinand to resign. Russia is determined in regard to the Bulgarian question to make no concessions.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 14
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