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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 88, 12 January 1888, Page 2

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VICTORIAN LOAN. A MURDERER HANGED. THE IMPRISONED &LP, GERMANY AND BULGARIA. NEWS FROM THE VATICAN. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright - JPBB tTNifBO PHEBB ASSOCIATION.". _. r.. ......... London, January 10/ Tenders for the Victorian 4 percent.* loan of £1,500,000 were opened to-day, when the total amount subscribed was £3,466,500. Applicants at £108 8s wiR receive about one-third. There were 300 tenderers at the average price. Dr Phillip Cross/a retired army surgeon, of Shandy Hall, Cork, has been executed at Cork. The crime for which Dr Cross has just paid the penalty was the murder of his wife by arsenical poisoning. Mrs Cross died; on June 2nd, and on June sth Dr Cross started for London, and within a. fortnight married a Miss Skinner, a governess in his family, who had been sent aWay owing to the deceased being jealous of her. These, circumstances led to an inquest being held, which resulted in Cross being convicted of murder. Mr D. Sheehy, M,P, for Galway, has I received an additional sentence of three | months for inciting resistance to law. The wheat market is dull. Australian consignments ex warehouse, are quoted at 34s 9d. Galvanised iron is quoted at £15 19s per ton ; copper' at £86 per toa. New Zealand 5 per' ceuts are quoted at 103 inscribed stock 98J. January IL Tbe Union Bank of Australia bas declared a dividend of 12 per cent., aad Carry forward to the reserve fund £10,000. The National Bank of .New Zealand have declared a dividend of 5 per cent. Beblin, January 10. The National Zeitung urges the Powers to remove. Prince Ferdinand from tbe throne of Bulgaria. Rohb, January 10. The Pope, in receiving English and Colonial Catholics, to whom a special audience was granted to-day, prayed that ..reason and equity would replace the irritable feeling in Ireland. Melboubne, January 11. Sixty seven eases of typhoid fever have been reported during the last six days, ten of which proved fatal. The imports for the: year amount in value to L 18,996,000, and tbe exports to L 11.373,000. l'he Colonial Treasurer has received a cable message from the Agent-General that the average for the Victorian loan was LIOB 13s lOd, which is the highest price obtained for any colonial loan. Sydney, Jauary 11. Four hundred and seventy bags of New Zealand oats have been sold at 2s o|d u>2sl£d. There are 27 acceptors for the Anniversary Handicap, inoluding Spade Guinea. Tbe directors of the South Pacific Petroleum Company, which have then works at Gisborne, have resolved to form a new com ('any, with a capital of £160,000, in Ll shares. Dublin. January 9. Mr Timothy Harrington, M.P., hae been sentenced to bix weeks' imprisonment for publishing reports of meetings of the League. The decision will be appealed against. Received, January 12, 15 15 p;m. Sofia,, January .11. Thousands of copies of a proclamation of Russian origin have been discovered in tbis city, having for its object ah incitement to a rising. Beblin, January 11. The latest bulletin respecting the Emperor's Health is re-assuring. The Emperor informed a deputation from Halle that the worst fears foi tho Croavn Prince were past. London, January 11. ; It is reported that Stanley has succeeded in reaching Emm Bey. Camtown, January 10. Sir Hercules Robinson, in a speech at Grahamstown, advocated unrestricted trade throughout South Africa, and the imposition of an uniform tariff against outsiders. Glasgow, January 11. A gunboat, with a force of marines, has been ordered to Stornoway. Massowah, January 9. 7 The Italian troops aro now on the maroh from Ghinda to Asmara, a town on the Abyssinian frontier 1 , and 00 miles from this place. Sydney, This Day. Two engines with trucks, collided on the northern line near Gosford yesterday, smashing the trucks and injuring six workmen.