CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 371, 31 October 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

St. Petbbsburg, Oct. 28. The Czarewitch will shortly visit Constantinople.

London, October 28. King Otto, of Bavaria, is in a precarious state of health.

An anti-Frenoh outbreak is feared in Madagascar. Messrs Davitt, Biggar, and O’Brien, in their addresses before the Parnell Commission, made vigorous attacks on the Times. Requiems in memory of the late King of Portugal were sung yesterday at London, Sofia, and Berne.

The men at the Albert docks not having agreed to the general compact as to getting higher wages than the rate agreed upon, efforts are being made to bring about an under* standing before November 4. Lord Salisbury, replying to the represents tives of the Baptist Union against the atroci • .at Crete, has assured them that the British Consul reports tbe atrocities at Crete to be exaggerated, and that Chakir Pasha was repressing the license of the soldiers. October 29. The Duke of Edinburgh, who was to have represented the Queen at the funeral of the King of Portugal, will be unable to be present, through indisposition. ~k° r d Wolsely will be present at Richmond (Virginia) at the unveiling of the statue of the late General Lee, the celebrated Confederate General, who died in 1870. Rear-Admiral Fairfax haying been ap* pointed Second Lord of the Admiralty, has entered upon his new office. The Monte Christo Mining Company will be wound up.