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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 287, 17 November 1884, Page 2

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[Per City of Sydney at Auckland, . (Per Press Association. London, October 24. In the Standard there are renewed reports of serious difficulties impending in Liverpool in connection with the produce and shipping traders. One company of American liners recently called a formal meeting of their creditors and revealed its inability to fully meet its engagements, but no formal bankruptcy is apprehended. Prince Albert Victor will start next spring on a long tour on the Continent, and will afterwards visit the United States and Canada. Mr. Gladstone wrote a long letter to the St. Asaph Diocesan Conference on the subject of the disestablishment of the Church of England. In it lie counsels churchmen to be tolerant of each others views and to conduct their controversies with charity, moderation, mildness, and reserve.

The Tichborne claimant was secretly brought to Pentonville prison on the night of October 29. He was discharged next morning quite unexpectedly to himself, as his time had still three days to run. At Scotland yard the claimant received a ticket of leave requiring him to report himself monthly by letter to the authorities. He appeared to be in good health and will remain quiet for the present, keeping his residence a secret.

Wheat reached the lowest price in th* London market on October 19 since the American Civil War. Distress at the shipbuilding aentrub of the North is increasing. Trade on the Tyne and adjacent districts is paralysed, Forty ocean steamers are lying idle in ’tha dotks at Sundbrlandj tthfl tnofit of the shipyards are closed. Public subscriptions are ijeing made fbf laborers out df employment. It is reported that the War Office is aboii.i to send an expedition of 8,000 men to South Africa, a portion of which will be drawn frbfti the East Indian Army. A despatch soys it is now known that the English hop crop will be considerably below the average yield, but the quality is better than for years. The Continental crop is an average one, but the quality is not so fine. The whole world's crop is said• to be above the annual conauntptiom The Queen, on October Hj requeued Mf» Gladstone to submit to the Cabinet fdf dtffisideration the question whether special pttwCrt cannot be conferred upon the Prince of Wales to enable him to participate in the Conference of Sovereigns of Europe. British immigration statistics show a decline of 70,000. A home for female inebriates has been established in London. Government has decided to expend one million on its fortifications in Aden, Singapore, and Hongkong. Orders have been sent from the war office to hasten the work. If the Parnellitee fail to obtain a pledge from Mr. Gladstone that Government will recall Earl Spencer and allow the Irish Crimes Act to pass as proposed by Captain O'Shea, M.P. for Clare, they will not vote with the Tories, but will withhold their votes from Government.

Private negotiations between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parnell have been broken off and Mr. Trevelyan has secured Mr. Gladstone’s assent to the renewal of the Crimes Act. It is ramored that Earl Spencer desires to resign, and that he will be succeeded by the Duke of Connaught. Mr. Trevelyan, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, is now accompanied every by a detective. The weekly National papers exult over Mr. Trevelyan’s resignation. It is proposed to raise by subscription £lO,OOO for the family of the late Alexander M. Sullivan. An attempt by Lord Lytton to prevent the publication of his father's letters has raised some very interesting legal questions. It appears Miss Devey cannot be stopped in publishing letters. An anti-slavery jubilee was held in Manchester. Henry M. Stanley was present and assured the English people that slavery had not been abolished, but what was called free labor in Africa, was labor of captured slaves. The Government of Columbia (United States) have notified the Panama Railway Company that it will not allow that line of railroad to be cut or changed, damaged for the benefit of the De Lesseps canal. Miss Carrie Wilton, a young New York lady, wandered from her party of tourists in the Colorado mountains recently and was found frozen to death. She left all her property, amounting to 250,000 dole., to the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. A marriage is arranged between President Arthur and the daughter of Mr. Freelinghurpen, Secretary of State, to tafce place in January next. An important failure has occurred in San Francisco, when a well-known, and for many years trusted capitalist, A. Bouman, collapsed for over half-a-million dollars. His clients were mostly wealthy people residing in Europe on their means.

The first Chinaman admitted to the privilege of voting in California was registered at San Francisco on the 16th. He is really a China American, having been born in the County of Nevada. William H. Vanderbilt has donated 500,000 dollars to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. New York, October 24. A bill has been introduced into the Vermont Legislature providing for the death punishment of malefactors by electricity. Thirty-one cotton mills at Fall Elver, Massachusetts, representing 1,000,000 spindles or 1,400,000 employed on print goods, has been shut down for a week. On Saturday October 18th, ten thousand persons were thrown out of employment. The prospect is that unless the market improves the shut-down will continue indefinitely. Fuller advices from China received in Paris give particulars of the defeat of the French at Tamsui on the 15th inst. Ling Hung Schuan, the Chinese General, sent some of his soldiers disguised as collies to offer to assist the French at their work of building forts. Meanwhile the rest of the Chinese soldiers formed an ambush near at hand. Presently the signal previously agreed upon was given, whereupon the supposed coolies and soldiers in ambush made a sudden attack upon the French and hemmed them in on all sides. The French were overwhelmed and rushed into the sea in the wildest confusion. Admiral Lesseps admits that 1,000 of his men were killed.