CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 369, 26 October 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

London, October 23. The race for the Dewburst Plate was run at the Newmarket Houghton meeting this day, with tbe following result—Leonora 1, Allaway 2, FarNienteS. October 24. Mr Gladstone, in the course of a speech at Southport, said it was impossible to expound his policy for the future. The questions of the Scotch and Welsh Churches would be settled locally, A final triumph was, he considered, imminent over the Irish question, for it was impossible that the triumphs gained by his party in sixty recent elections were the result of sixty accidents. Sir John Pender intimates that the Eastern Extension Company is willing to lay a Pacific cable for strategic purposes if fairly paid for tbe work.

The present scarcity of pig iron is unequalled.

The Mexican bonds lately stolen have been recovered.

The death is announced of J. T. Ball, who was Attorney General for Ireland in the Disraeli Cabinet.

Pams, October 24. A French line of steamers is about to start between Tahiti, New Caledonia, and New Hebrides.

Zanzibar, October 23. Captain Wissmanexpeetsto meet Stanley, Emin Pasha, and Casati (Italian traveller) at Upwapwa village, in German territory, some time next month. Constantinople, October 24. The Turkish authorities deny the accuracy of the reports regarding outrages in Crete. The Sultan has assured Mons. Arminino Vambury, the well known Eastern traveller, that he would not support his subjects in any agitation for withholding autonomy against the interests of Armenia.