CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 383, 28 November 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

London, November 25.

In an interview with Sir .Charles [Hike he expressed ao opinion that Sir Henry Parkes’ programme of federation meant more one of English constitution than one of Colonial use. He said ho was surprised the colonies repre seated in the existing Federal Council did not federate apart from New South Wales, and that course he was inclined to think would eventually be pursued if Mr Playford, the former Premier of South Australia, re-entered office. Sir Henry Parkes’ military scheme was preferable to the one put forward by Mr Gilbea, and he ridiculed the idea of its danger to the Empire, Imperial Federation was a seductive dream, but was impossible of realisation, Lord Rosebery himself was weary of the subject, and had condemned his own scheme, Lord Salisbury would not convene a conference of the Colonial delegates, unless Canada requested it, for the purpose of discussing a modified Zollverin,

In an interview on the same subject with the Agent General, Sir Saul Samuel was very reticent.

Sir Arthur Blyth (South Australia) ascribed the Dominion movement to the vanity of Sir Henry Parkes, and his fear that New South Wales would not be paramount should it join the existing Federal Council. A letter from Emir Bey states that he was captured by a rebel, but was released, and denies that he ever fell into the hands of the Mahdists.

Mr Bradlaugh denies a report that his illness has altered his views on matters of religion.

Buda Pesth, November 25. Eighty Hungarian women have been tried for poisoning their husbands, and forty convicted.