LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3108, 14 June 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

May 31. Great Britain pays the United States £15,000 to settle the Portune Bay and Newfoundland fishery dispute which has existed for some time between the two countries. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gonnaught have opened the London International Wool Exhibition. Some good machinery and fabrics are exhibited, but Australian wool shows in very small quantities, and not specially good. A large number of exhibits have not yet been arranged. The exhibition, as a whole, is a poor one. Prince Bismarck, the German Imperial Chancellor, has submitted to the Reichstag a memorial based on tbe reports furnished by the German Consul in Central Aua.ralia, which complains that the German trade is beaten by England, France, and America, and recommends that a commission-house be established at a German seaport for the furtherance of the export trade. It is further recommended that a line of steamers should trade between China, the South Seas, and Australia, for the maintenance of which a State subvention is nrged. A scurrilous letter written by the treasurer of the Irish Land League has been discussed in the House of Commons, and Mr Gladstone was severe on Mr Parnell for claiming the treasurer ot the League as his friend. Mr Gladstone further stated that Ireland was being disgraced by terrorism. Mr Henry Pease, a prominent member

of the Society of Friends, and a wellknown philanthropist, is dead. June 2. The Russian Government has resolved to place police officers at all the European capitals for the purpose of capturing Socialists who have been guilty of criminal acts against the Government. While a body of police were protecting some process servers in County Clare, they were attacked by a large mob. The police were compelled to fire upon the rioters, and killed six of them.

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