CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 257, 7 February 1889, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

London, Feb. 4. Sir Andrew Clarke writes to the Times protesting against fortifying London, which he says is a mere pretext to starve the navy, which is the proper defence of the Empire. It is asserted that Germany and England have entered into a secret treaty to proteci. the northern ports on either Bide of the German O< rn"the annual election of a committee for the Manchester Chamber of Commerce the Fair Trade candidates were defeated. The Empress Victoria is greatly distressed at the disclosures made in the Contemporary Beview. The Beview disclaims that in its recent article on Prince Bismarck it was in■nired by Sir Morell Mackenzie, and also denies that Sir Morell was the author of the article which has been attributed to him. Mr Baldwin, of New Zealand, has been admitted to the bar of the Middle Temple. France has created a new office, namely Minister for the Colonies. The death io announced at Nice of Judge Hackett, of Victoria. . t The Irish Americans protest against the treatment accorded to Mr W. O’Brien in pr Captain Harold Bell, of Auckland, was drowned through the colliding of the KilIjchan. At the adjourned inquest on the remains of the boy Gill (held at Bradford) who some five weeks ago was found horribly mutilated, the heart and intestines having been removed, the jury brought in a verdict of murder against Barrett, a milkman, who was arrested at the time on suspicion. Barrett at the first enquiry was alleged to have decoyed the boy AteJb some stables and there committed the Paris, Feb, 4. Officials favorable to General Boulanger are being dismissed. Brussels, Feb. 4. A serious railway accident has occurred here, resulting in fourteen passengers being killed and fifty injured.