CABLEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 216, 1 November 1888, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

London, Oct 24, It is now expected that Sir W. Jervois, on returning from the Governorship of New Zealand, will be appointed Governor of Queensland. The Lancashire and Welsh coal masters have yielded to.the demands of the men for increased wages. Thirty thousand Yorkshire miners have gone out on strike. The masters have combined to resist their demands. The amount of <he Bank of New Zealand new capital subscribed is £890.000. The Canadian G.xr.nn.. m ,» willfop to give a subsidy of £2S.(XX) for « f ■- htb Australian mail service, and £15,000 for a monthly one. Mrs Gordon Baillie has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for fraud, and her husband, Mr Percival Frost, to eighteen months’ imprisonment. Oct 29. It eame out during the trial of Mr Percival Frost (Mrs Gordon Baillie’s husband) that his mother possessed an income of £2OOO. The World ridicules the statement that it is probable that the Right Hon Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-General, will be appointed to a colonial Governorship. The shipping ring disclaims any intention of raising freight. The Chancery order empowering trustees to invest money in colonial inscribed stock nnder certain conditions will be suspended in consequence of the protests of the lawyers. The Financial News asserts that the Bank of New Zealand clique engineered the recent rise Zealand inscribed stock for the assisting the new issue of Bank shares.

Lord Roseberry, writing on the subject of Imperial Federation, states his belief that the union of the colonies with Great Britain would increase the liabilities of the latter. It is, he thinks, impracticable to admit the colonies to share in the control or the Imperial policy unless they are willing to pay their share of the cost. Beblis, Oct 29. It is believed in this city that England will Co-operate with Germany in establishing Order in Zanzibar. Paths, Oct 24. M. de Freycinet has applied for a vote of One million francs to complete the eastern defences. An excursion train on the Brindisi-Naples Was buried by a landslip, and ninety passengers were killed. Oct 29. The retired German officer, who was Arrested at Nice in August on suspicion of being a spy, has been found guilty and sentenced to dve years' imprisonment besides a fine of five thousand franca (£200). Athens, Oct 29. The rumored intqption of the King of Greece to abdicate after the marriage of the heir-apparent is denied.