NEWS OF THE WORLD

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7998, 17 October 1887, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD

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CHAMBERLAIN ON Illtf IRISH TOUK.

London, October 16. \ Mr. Chamberlain is prosecuting bis anti-Home Rule campaign in Ireland with unabated vigor, and has been J accorded enthusiastic receptions at j Ballymena and Ooleraine. In addres- i sing public meetings at those towns ivlr. Chamberlain urged his hearers strenuously to oppose Home Rule, pointing out that the repeal of the union would bring inevitable ruin upon Ulster. ILLNESS OP DR. GULL. Sir William W. Gull, the eminent physician, is reported to be suffering from a stroke of paralysis. DEATH OF AN AUTHORESS. The death is announced, at the age of 61, of Mrs. Craik (Miss Mulock), the authoress of " John Halifax, Gentleman," and other novels. UNEMPLOYED RIOTS IN LONDON. Further threatening demonstrations by the unemployed took place on Friday. Several persons wore the cap of liberty, and the " Marseillaise" was sung. The Lord Mayor refused to receive a deputation from the men, and was hooted by the mob. The crowd congregated outside the Standai d newspaper office, and hooted and groaned for some time. The police seized some red and black flags carried by the unemployed, and dispersed the gatherings. LABOR DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON A renewal of the demonstration took place yesterday. A large crowd assembled in Trafalgar Square, where fierce harangues were delivered by a number of agitators. A procession was formed, which paraded the city, but there was less uproar than on the I previous day. Stong complaints have been made at the stoppage of traffic and business owing to these procossions being tolerated by the authorities. ; FISHERIES COMMISSION. It is announced that Sir Charles Tupper will represent the Canadian Government on the Fisheries Commission. SETTLEMENT Itf VICTORIA. Many enquiries are being made as to the conditions on which farmers and others may settle on the Chaffey Bros.' estate. The estate comprises some 250,000 acres in the vicinity of the Murray, and has been granted to the Messrs. Chaffey by the Victorian Government for irrigation purposes, the licensees, on their part, undertaking to expend £300,000 in twenty years on irrigation works, agriculture, horticulture, and the establishment of a fruit preserving industry. ELECTRIC RAILWAY. The plant for the electric railway at the North Shore, Sydney, lias been shipped in the steamer Massilia. CONGREGATIONALIST JUBILEE FUND The Congregationalists' Jubilee fund amounts to £150,000. LATE LADY BRASSBY. Lady Brassey was suffering from malarial fever, which attacked her on the voyage between Port Darwin and Mauritius. The English press deplores her loss. GREVY LIKELY TO RETIRE. Paris, October 14. President Grevy is annoyed at the attacks on M. Milson, his son-in-law, and may possibly resign. GENERAL bOULANU EH ARRESTED. Paris, October 16. General Boulanger has admitted making the statement imputed to him regarding the action of the Government in arraigning General Cafferel. M. Feron, the Minister of War, in conseqenco plaoed General Boulanger under close arrest for one month. The question of depriving him of his command will be considered by the Cabinet later on. CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY WORSE Berlin, October 14. It is reported that the Crown Prince of Germany has had a relapse, and that his throat is seriously worse. WAR BETWlfifcN RUSSIA AKD GERMANY. Vienna, October 14. Prince Vosongoff writes to the Vienna press that war between Germany and Eusaia is inevitable. CANADIAN FISHERIES DISPUTE. Ottawa, October 14. The Montreal Gazette warns Eugland that the feeling in Canada regarding tbe fisheries dispute resembles the resentment by Australia of Lord Derby's lukowarniness concerning New Guinea.

On the 16th July Paris was flooded with a printed prophecy, according to the Oagliostro method, of the future career of Boulanger. He is to bo victor over Germany on Nov. 7th, 1890, and President of the French Republic in May, 1890.

The genial veteran, j\lr. Johu Ollivier, will celebrate his golden wedding at Chriutuhui'ch on tho 25th instant. Tho Press suys>: — 110 iuten is holding a sort of "At homo" in the shape of a monster garden party to celcbratu the event, to which all his friends aro invited. IVre will l>e no formal invitation by car.Ls, etc , but both Mrs. Oilivier aod himseii! will be glad to sec and welcome all comers.

Charles Max Schiaedcr, who v. as arrested ia Sydney for extrusive fmyrrieß in England, has been detained pendiii:.? the arrival oi an oluoer from London. Further particulars now to hmii iuionn us that the for,, tries referred to were perpetrated in Paris, and amounted to .2100,000. A short time ago Lord (Janington received a cypher cable message oil tha subject from the Secretary of Slate fur the Colonies, and on a previous warrant it-tsaid by Inspector Cumphiu, Scliraeder was urro bled in v house at the North Shore, Sydney. lie admitted that he was tho uiun described in tho warrant; that ho had been with his wife and throe children but n Bhort timo in the colony ; and had lodger), as was stated, at Petty 's Hotel. At th-j samo time ho asserted that there wao somu mistake ; that ho knew nothing about the alleged icrgery, and tliat he could not at all undetstau'i why he had been ai rested. Tho accused is a gontleinanly, intelligentlooking man, with v pleasing presence and u^oulturod voioOi