Cablegrams.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 208, 13 October 1888, Page 2

Cablegrams.

The Port Darwin cable is atii] interrupted, The following are the latest cablegrams received :—

Mr Henry Campell, M.P. for Ferman ith South, has commenced an action for libel against The Times, that paper having alleged that he was the writer of the Parnell letters in his capacity as secretary. ' The Goldsmiths’ Company have declared their intention to endow the People’s Institute in South London with a gift equal to £90,000. The Times in an article on the Melbourne Exhibition, states that the visit of Mr Frederick H. Cowen to Victoria will result in a permanent benefit to music in Australia, Mr W. H. Smith, epeking at Gloucester, said that carrying out the colonial defence scheme meant practically Imperial federation, as the colonies had become partners with Eng. land in defending their mutual interests. As evidence that tbe attacument between the Mother Country and the coloniee was enhanced by the distance which separated them, he quoted the fact that New South Wales had sent a contingent to Che Soudan. He said that the colonies were the life' blood of Eng. land, and must eventually become stronger and supersede the Old Country.