CABLEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 221, 13 November 1888, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

London, Not 10. Counsel for the Time* hare intimated to the Parnell Commission that they will not conclude their case thia year. While speaking on Irish affaire at Birmingham Mr Gladstone said that the residue of his life was the property of Ireland. Lord Brownlow succeeds the Earl of Onslow as Political Secretary of the Board of Trade. The Church Association has decided to take aetion against the Bishop of Lincoln on the charge of ritualism. Lord Knutsford, Secretary for the Colonies, is much irritated at the interference of Sir Thomas Mcllwraith with the selection of the Governor of Queensland, and he has expressed his determination to retain full responsibility and resent any dictation on the part of the Premier of Queensland. Lord Knutsford considers that it would be better to abolish the Colonial Office altogether if its only important function is to be abrogatsd.tr. fTbe Daily Chronicle, commenting on the question, condemns Lord Knutaford’a action in refusing what it terms Queensland’s reasonable request, and says it is quite time that ths Colonial Office recognised the right of colonial Governments to a voice in the selection of their Governors. Mr W. L. Rees has applied to Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, for a guarantee Of 3 per cent, upon a sum of £300,000 to be expended in sending 2000 families of Lewis OWofters to New Zealand. The Government •re favorable to the scheme, but are reluctant to act without the approval of the New Zealand Government. The ship Odor Roger, bound from Hamburg to London, collided with the steamer Nantes in the English Channel to-day, both vessels sinking immediately. Sixteen of the crew of the Odor Roger and only two of those on beard the Nantes were saved. London, Nov. 11. Lord Salisbury, in his speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet at the Guildhall, said the •lection of General Harrison as President of the United States annulled the Sackville West incident, which was merely a piece of •'ection tactics. He considered the peace of Europe was now assured. With reference to Africa the Prime Minister gave it as his opinion that the condition of affairs at Suakitn proved it was impossible for the Powers to evacuate Egypt. . , The Duche-a of Cambridge is seriously ill. She lies in a precarious condition. Obituary—Lord Lucan. Rome, Nov. 11. Th# Pope has canonised those Roman Catholic Missionaries who lost their [lives in propagating the faith in Polynesia.