Cablegrams.

Western Star, Issue 1385, 31 August 1889, Page 2

Cablegrams.

HOME AND FOREIGN. [PRESS ASSOCIATION TEIiKGBAMS.] London, August 24. Mr Dawes has proposed to the directorate to wrtto£3 per share off the capital of the Now Zealand Shipping Company. Aug. 28. The Government propose next session to provide a special charter and separate endowment for a Catholic University in Dublin. V. r Parnell will accept, the proposal and risk tin- alienation of the Liberals. Mr Gladstone writes to the Daily News enclosing a long list of horrors committed in Armeni , nnd demands that searching inquhies should be made. The louse of a tenant at Woodford, who had pai I his rent, was fired in revenge, and the owuor burnt to death along with a servant. Sevor,l Irishmen in Chicago have attempted to assassinate a prominent witness against Burke, charged with the murder of Dr Croi.in. G n^',?^ 3 ' tbe dram »tist, pays income tax on hzvj'iMj a year. INTERCOLONIAL m , , , Sydnet, Aug 26. The body of Mr Wru. Kennedy, manager for tho Equitable Insurance Company of New Zealand, has been found on a beach in the harbour. Death was the result of poißon. His wife and family are in Dunedin. The inquest on the remains has been adjourned' a u ■, ■ ■ Aug. 29. Assaults and crime are reported to be increasing at an alarming rate on the part of the natives of Samoa. The German Consul has ordered ihe planters not to carry firearms. H.M.S. Cormorant has hoisted the British flag at the Hervey Group. Melbourne, Aug. 28. The body of Sherlock, a civil engineer, has been found at Ringwood, apparently having been dead a month; and from appearance it is evidently a case of murder.