CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 289, 23 April 1889, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

London, April 19. Information has been received from British Honduras that an English Missionary, the Rev. Mr Hobson and hia wife and a lady companion of the latter,, who resided at Ruatan Island, situated in Honduras Bay, have been brutally murdered by a native servant. The bodies of the victims were horribly mutilated. A settlement having been arranged in connection with the Vandaleur estates in Ireland, the tenants have been reinstated on their farms amid great rejoicing. Advices from Zanzibar strengthen the suspicion that the German Emin Bay relief expedition was undertaken with ulterior designs, and that the supposed relief is only a subterfuge. Brussels, April 19At a meeting of friends and adherents of Boulanger, it was decided to remain as passive as possible during the time the Paris Exhibition is open, large donations being received from Boulanger’s sympathisers. April 20. The expulsion of General Boulanger from this country is considered inevitable, and it is believed that it will be done in response to an unofficial demand from Franou.

Bzbun, April 19. Herr Holstein has been appointed an additional German delegate to the Samoan conference.

Cairo, April 20. It is reported here that El Senouissi's followers have captured the Mahdi.

Paris, April 20. The exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition are indignant at tbe refusal of the authorities to allow sales being made. The directors of I’Escompte de Comptoir de Paris declare that they will repudiate all their guarantees unless the proposed compromise is agreed to.