CABLEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 247, 15 January 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

London, Jan. 12. Mr Archibald Forbes has published a letter, in which he expresses the opinion that the charges levelled against Sir B. A. Morier of betraying the German army to the French are inherently baseless. Mr W. O’Brien has been eummoned on a charge of delivering inflammatory speeches at Ballyneale in September last. • The bankruptcy proceedings in the case of Dennis, proprietor of the Court Society Review, have been adjourned with a view to* arriving at a settlement with the creditors.

Mr Robert Gent Davis, M P. for Kennington, committed to gaol in November last for contempt of Court for non payment of fiduciary funds to £is brother, is about to be released. A protest has been received from Jamaica against the appointment of Sir Henry Blake ae Governor, on the ground that having been objected to by the Government of Queensland he is not a fit person for the appointment to Jamaica. Lord Knutsford is paying no heed to the protest.

Lord Brasssy, speaking at Hastings, said it would bscome necessary before long to concede the colonies a share in Imperial politics, especially in the foreign policies of the Empire.

Sir H. MoArtney, English Secretary to the Chinese Legation in London, discredits the rumored influx of Chinese into Canada and Australia. The Colonial Office privately confirms the statement.

In his speech at Wyndham. Lord Kimberley quoted a statement in Truth that the Earl of Kintore was a novice appointed to South Australia for the purpose of retrenchment, and accepted by the colony for the sake of his title. Sir H. A. Blake, a trained servant of the Crown, but self-made and untitled, had been rejected by Queensland. It was evidently intended to recruit Australian Governors from the peerage,- and the Government had only failed to send a peer to Queensland out of sympathy with Sir H. A. Blake. The Standard, in a review of the markets, says that the imports ot cereals in 1889 will be larger in consequence of the inferior quality, and there wilt be a good opening for Australian superior qualities. The stocks ot wool are light, and the woollen trade is prosperous. The drought in Australia has assisted to harden the prices. Information has been received that some Christian natives at Uganda have murdered one of. the teachers oonneoted with the mission, and expelled Herr Knappe, who was appointed German Consul after the approval of his conduct at Samoa.

Colonel Hughes-Hallett is suffering from a stroke of paralysis. WaSHtNOTON, Jan. 12. Edison is receiving Gladstone’s speech at ths Groat Birmingham meeting in November by phonograph. Kilrain is shuffling over the terms of his fight with Sullivan. Paris, Jan 12. The Boulangista have adopted Bente, a stonemason, as a candidate. A cordon of detectives is stationed round General Boulanger’s residence. Berlin, Jan. 12. Count Hatzfeldt, German Ambassador in London, has been instructed to interview Lord Salisbury re the Morier dispute. Tbs Post re-affirms the statement that the Czarewitch will be betrothed to the Princess Alexander Victoria, ot Hesse.