CABLEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 230, 4 December 1888, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

THE NATIONAL CAUSE. Sir T. Esmond, M. P. for Dublin South, and Mr J Deasy, M.P. for May, leave for Australia on December 19 on a lecturing lour in aid of the Nationalist cause. They will call at the Cape. IMMIGRATION TO WEST AUSTRALIA The President of the State Colonising Association has announced that Western Australia is now accepting immigrants. BOULANGER’S DOMESTIC RELATIONS. Paris, Dec 1. Madame Boulanger has retired to a convent Her husband is seeking to compel her to acquiesce in a divorce. AN APPEAL FROM M. DE LESSEPS. M. de Lesseps appeals to all Frenchmen to prevent the Panama Canal passing into the hands of foreigners. DEATH OF THE SWISS PRESIDENT. Berne, Nov 30. W. F. Harlenstein. of Zurich, President of the Swiss Confederation, met with an acuidenwhich necessitated the amputation of a leg, but the bufferer succumbed under the operation. LORD DUFFERIN’S VIEWS. Calcutta, Dec. 1. Lord Dufferin, Viceroy of India, addressing a meeting here, deprecated the autocracy of India, and said that the question of an electoral Government was premature. He advocated the increase of natives in the public service. BLOCKADE OF ZANZIBAR PORTS COMMENCED. Zanzibar, Dec. 1. The Germans have commenced the blockade by bombarding Lundi, on the southern coast.