CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 265, 26 February 1889, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

London, Feb. 23. Mr Balfour was received in the House ol Commons by the Iri.h members with hisses end cries of " Piggott.” Mr Parnell was absent. The divorce suit brought by Lord Ailesbury against his wife baa been settled out of Court, Mr Gosohen ia completing the conversion of consols. Mr J, L. Carew, M,P. for Kildare, has been aenienced to four months’ imprisonment on a charge of inciting tenants to commit breaches of the law. He is imitating the action of Mr O'Brien by refusing to wear prison garb and opposing the prison regulations. In the House of Commons Baron de Worms, replying to Mr Redmond, said that the Chinese question had not advanced in the direction of a satisfactory settlement, The police have been acquitted from blame in connection with the false imprisonment of the two alleged rectory burglars. Sir John Hall has been interviewed by a representative of the Pall Ma i Gazette, Sir John said that a defensive federation was desirable. It was a fiscal dream of Australia to support England in a war on colonial account, but it was doubtful whether support would be obtained for a European war. He ridiculed Mr Fronde's statement that the colonial Parliaments and the Agents-General had advocated the imposition of extra duties on foreign imports for defence purposes. The Times is applying to have the action brought by Mr Parnell against it in Ireland dismissed, pending the result of the Scotch action.

Berlin, Feb, 23. Prince Bismarck, referring to the German colonies, said they were burdensome, and it was impossible to permit trifles to embroil the great powers,

Belgrade, Feb. 23. The Radicals have failed in their attempt to form a new Servian Ministry.