CABLEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 6863, 23 April 1891, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

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Lokdok, April 22. The incident in regard to the 3rd Grenadiers at Chelsea is now looked upon as of a vpry trivial natuse. The Standard says it is uatrye ih»t Portugal is co&nrria? at the Boers' expedition to Mft|iboaaiaDd«

The name of the widow who left' General Booth a legacy of £75,000 is Mrs Bell. Valpabaiso, April 22. It is reported that the Chilian warship Blanco Kuculada, while off Autofagagta, was struck by a torpedo and sunk. JSTkw Your, April 22. On Monday, no less than twenty murders and suicides were reported to the city police. Cape Town, April 22. The Africander Band is now said to be disposed to favor Mr Cecil Rhodes' suggestion for averting a collision between the Boers expedition and the South African Co. • There is great excitomenfc at the Cape owing, to a report that the Marquis of Salisbury will only remonstrate with Portugal for its action in Mashonaland and Capetown. The Times hints that it would be advisable to lower the British standard in South Africa. • Beblin; April 22. Some warehouses on Sandthor Quay, Hamburg, hare been destroyed by fire. The losses exceed two million marks. .Lisbon, April 29. Intelligence has been received of a seriousjjrising at Bissao, a seaport in Senei gambia. Six thousand natives attacked four hundred Portuguese and native troops, and defeated them. The casual I ties, oni jthe Portuguese side were four officers and seventy-one men killed and twenty-two wounded. Reinforcements are to be Bent from here to assist in quelling the rising. St. Johns, April 22. Men-of-war are preventing twoihundred fishing craft in Fortune Bay from supplying bait to the French fishermen.