CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 277, 23 March 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

London, March 20. It has been found necessary to confine Miss Mary Anderson in a private asylum for the insane, and her theatrical company has been disbanded. The Bight Hon. Mr Goshen has signified his intention to move for the appointment of a Committee to consider in what way emigration to the Colonies can be promoted. In the House of Lords the Marquis of Salisbury, in reply to Lord Waterford, said it was the intention of the Government to restore order in Ireland, and to enlarge the scope of Lord Ashbourne’s Act to grant a system of local Government, and thereby to cut the ground from under the feet of those agitating for Home Rule. Mr Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, of whom it was announced that he was likely to be appointed the United States Minister at London, has been given the appointment of Minister at Paris. London, March 21. It is reported that the Public Prosecutor at Mentone has applied for the dissolution of the Marriage of Prince Alexander of Battenburg on the ground of fraudulent declaration. The Queen has cancelled her order for a portrait of the Prince. The motion in favor of a reciprocal tariff with the United States has been rejected by the Canadian House of Commons. London Truth has some severe comments on the avidity with which Colonial Bishops accept livings in England, and it urges the Churches in Sydney and Tasmania to select their Bishops for those two vacant sees from amongst their own Colonial clergy instead of applying to an English jobbing syndicate of clerics.