CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 386, 5 December 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

London, December 2. J. W. Laurie, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a tourist named Rose, a'. Goatfol!,in the Island of Arran, some months back, and subsequently reprieved, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. The Mayor of Bristol has agreed to act as arbitrator in the strike among the local dockmen. A rumor has reached here that the Mahdi is dead. It is stated that Monsignor Sattodi, reporting to the Pope on the piesont state of Ireland, denies the statem’nt that the Government land purchase scheme involves an expenditure of ten millions.

Sir Henry Parkes' acquieseooa in the suggestion of Mr Gillies that representatives of New South Wales should attend the Federal Council is generally approved of in political circles and by the Press. Il is understood that Lord Rosebery is in favor of. Colonial Federation, but ie doub.ful if Sir Henry Parkes' scheme could ba successfully carried Ol t.

M r Gladstone received a great ovation this evening at Manchester, where he delivered a very important political address. The speech was in the main a criticism of the speech of the Premier at Guildhall early last month. He took Lord Salisbury to task for stating that the troubles ,in Crete and. Armenia'Swere the only disturbing element in Europe, and disagreed with, his view that these difficulties were subsiding. The question of the disestablishment of the Scotti-h and We’s’i Churches Mr Gladstone said was ripe for solution. Referring to Irish affairs he declared that, tho struggle for the autonomy of Irelandjwas certain to cud in a victory for Home Rule. He declared himself in favor also of granting autonomy to Scotland and Wales. He held that the allotments and dwellings occupied by ths Irish tenants should be freed from leasehold tenure, and every tenant permitted to obtain a freehold of his holding. He declared in favor of shorter pa'liamcnts, but thought the question of reform of tho House of Lords was one tor tlqe future, Chjcaoo, December 1. Ii the summing up to the jury in the case against those charged with the murder of Dr 0.-onin, Hia Honor denounced the Clan-ns-Giri Society tor inducing tho police to suppress information rar-peotlng the discovery of Cronin’s knives by Detective Coughlin,

&HLIS. D-jtjemter 2. A statement nrcslotiaiy telegraphed that llo:'gtnporor Wllllim hod consented to bit si-tor printmt Jdwgtprits entering ths Q > el? GhOfoh, is nrciqMqra, . Oaseq, December J. Trade with the Soudan,' excepting jn arms and grain, baa been reopened. Sr. Petersburg, Bee, 9. There is an epidemic of influenza throughout the sour,try. and this is regarded as the forerunner vf an outbreak ot cholera. Paris, December 9,

Tha election ot General Boulanger for Montmartre, one of the Parisian constituencies, has been invalidated. The French Government has formally recognised the Brazilian Republic.