CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXII, Issue 5426, 22 January 1889, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

[Per United Press Association.] LONDON, j January 19. MrCroekuoll has been appointed Deputy Chairman of Mr Bsea' Company. The (Jape loan of half a million at 4 per coat has been subscribed threefold at an average of £110 59. Burns a Socialist, has beea elected to represent Battersea on the London County Council. January 20. Sir John Kirk, formerly British Consul General at Zanzibar, has -been sent on a special mission to Zanzibar on behalf of the British Govenament. One of the two raronauts who ascended ia a balloon at Antwerp with the intention of crossing to England on Tuesday last has been rescued. A shock of earthquake was felt at Edinburgh last night. CABUL, January 18. A chieftain named Isau has been captured. ANTWERP, January 18. Ths wool sales closed very firm. NEW YORK, January 18. The followers of the revolted Catholic clergyman, Dr MoGlyn, are threatened with excommunication. BERLIN, January 20. It is reported that Bismarck has assured Sir E. B. Mallet, the British Ambassador, that the charges made agaiust Sir B. Morier were neither directed against England, nor approved by the German Government. WASHINGTON, January 19. 1 The Immigration Bill now before Coagreß3 provides for the exclusion of idiots, paapers, anatolusts, aud socialists from the United States. CAIRO, January, 19. Menelek, king of the Southern j district of Abyssinia, has made peace with the Negabjohannes, and has ceded the ten provmess to thelattsr. SAN FRANCISCO, January 19. News has reached this city that German sailors at Samoa have burned several American flags, and imprisoned a number of American subjects. It is alao stated that a boats' crew belonging to the German warship fired on the captain and lieutenant of the British man of war.