LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 119, 8 May 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

«. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER UNITED PlifcSS VSSOCIAfIOV ) London. Mar 6 New Zealand 5 por cents,, 105; 4 per cents., 97f . Wheat; — Australian, ex warehouse, 355 ; ex ship, 345. Tallow— Mutton, 25s 6d; beef, 24 s. The Baroness Macleay, aunt of the late explorer, together with her maid, have been murdered, and 15,000 roubles were stolen from the Baroness. The police have arrested two persons on suspicion of being concerned in the murder. Rome, May 6An explosion of gas has taken place in a tunnel in course of construction in Messina, Sicily, and six persons were killed; 350 were injured, and it is believed that many of these are so badlj injured that they will die. Constantinople, May 9. It is stated that Russia is prompting Greece to raise an army of occupation for service in Turkey. Melbourne, May 7. Two men, named Holley and Wilson, have been sentenced to death for attacking an aboriginal woman at Hamilton. It is understood that the agents of the steamship companies trading to China have been instructed not, on any account, to allow the Chinese to return in their vessels, even though the Government offer them £50 a head. Sydney, May 7. Hanlan states that he was offered £4000 to lose the race with Kemp, but he refused. Hanlan has been authorised to back Teemer against any man in the world for a stake from £1000 to £5000. The dispute between Trickett and Hanlan has been settled, and the race will cotne off as arranged. Niue roughs, who were arrested a short time ago on the charge of having committed a murderous assault on a policeman at Eedf era, were brought before the Supreme Court to-day, when four of them were sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment, two to 7 years, and the other three were acquitted. Alt the prisoners were under 24 years of age. ■ A terrible accident occurred at the Bombo Quarries, near Kiama, this afternoon. A blast exploded unexpectedly, and three men were killed instantaneously. A number of others were injured There is a great revival in the shipping trade at Newcastle, and the tonnage for foreign and intercolonial ports is at present the largest ever known there. Beceived May 8, 1.10 p.m. Hbisbane, This Day. A horrible murder was committed yesterday at a seaport town north of this city. The victim was a girl eighteen years old, named Jilley, who was found with her throat cut. It is supposed she was first criminally assaulted by a man, named Kiss, who has since be*n arrested on suspicion. Sydney, This Day. The various shipping companies have cabled to China instructing their agents to stop sending Chinese passengers until the present difficulty i& settled. The Chinese passengers by the Afghan refuse to go to the Fiji sugar plantations, and will have to be sent back to China. A number of Chinese passengers by the Hauroto from New Zealand have been detained I on board that steamer pending the decision of the Government.