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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 243, 5 January 1889, Page 2

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London, Jan. 3. The Earl of Aberdeen, speaking on the subject of appointments of Colonial Gover nors, said he considered that the action of Queensland was a temperate assertion of her rights. The Board of Trade is compelling Electric Companies to obtain Parliamentary sanction to their operations. Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, refused to reprieve the two lads who brutally murdered an overseer at Tunbridge Wells, and they were executed. They were repentant at the last.

Jewellery to the value of £3OOO has been stolen from the house of the Austrian Ambassador in London.

Captain Lake, of HM S Nelson, has been appointed President of the Grenwioh College. The English Government view the visit of Mr Gladstone to the Vatican with disfavor, considering the visit may lead to vexation in the future. Truth asserts that the Earl of Kintore was appointed to the Governorship of South Australia because the captainoy of the Yeomen of the Guards is to be abolished to facilitate the scheme of retrenchment in connection with Royal expenditure.

Mr Ruskin is ill, and much anxiety is felt on his account.

The prevalence of a dense fog has caused a number of railway and shipping fatalities. The Primrose League is stated to now number 800,000 members, and its ranks are still increasing.

The Maori football team were defeated at Bradford by a goal and a try to a try. Mr L. Courtney, Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons, has been created a Privy Councillor. Baron Branwell has been created a baronet.

Sir W. Gull, the well known physician, has been seriously ill, but is now recovering. Suakin, Jan. 3. . The rebels are reported to be abducting women.

Washington, Jan. 8. The authorities of St. Louis (Missouri) have prohibited a boxing exhibition by Kilrain and Mitchell.