LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 157, 4 August 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

THE PARNELL COMMISSION. TERRIFIC STORMS AT HOME. FAILURE OF THE FRENCH WHEAT CROP. MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. AN ABORIGINAL MURDERS HIS GIN. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. LPSE UNITBD PBKSS ASSOCIATION.] London, August 2. Sir Dillon Bell is at Freiburg making inquiries as to the treatment of refractory ores. He will afterwards proceed to the Hartz mountains to inspect the Abt railway system in use there. An Australian wheat cargo has been sold at 375. Two cargoes on the passage have been re-sold at 36s 6d. The Eleyen of England team, to meet the Australian Eleven at Hastings, includes Hall, Peel, and Pougher, otherwise the team is considered weak. Queen Victoria will meet the Emperor William at Baden on the 30th September. In the House of Commons, Mr Labouchere moved, That the article in The Times charging the Parnellites with mendacity is a breach of privilege. The motion was opposed by Messrs Goschen and Gladstone, and after some discussion was withdrawn. In concluding the debate on the Commission Bill, Mr Parnell said he approached the inquiry with a rankling sense of injustice, but his party would emerge triumphant. The Bill was agreed to without division, and will be reported on Monday. Terrific storms have been experienced over the greater part of England during the last 24 hours. It was more severely felt in London than in the eastern counties. It is feared that the crops will suffer serious damage. At the Goodwood meeting the Cup was won by Lord Falmouth's Bada; Osric, 2 ; Timothy, 3. Washington, July 31. Kesolutione are to be introduced into the American Congress requiring the Government to demand from England the restoration of the rams and ironclads flying the British flag built for the Se- ■ ceders and paid for out of Southern money. Pobt-au- Prince, July 31. i Three conspirators, convicted of incendiarism, have been executed. Their object was to oust the President of the ; Sepublic. , Paris, July 31. i Fifteen thousand nayviee are now on 1 strike in this city, the Socialists heading the movement. : The French wheat crop is a disastrous failure. | Mklboubnb, August 3. Tlie attendance at the Exhibition yes- ' terday and to-day was small. Over the i Victorian Court are erected huge arches, ■ composed of wool grown in the colony. i Trophies composed of coal, oranges, and j wine in the New South Wales Coart are j greatly admired. j Se reral robberies are reported as hav- > ing taken place at the Exhibition build j ings. A number of valuable musical im- { Btruments and a quantity of diamond jewellery is missing. Owing to the leakage of gas in the bed room of a house at North Melbourne, three young men named James Stafford, William Moron, and William Gray, were found dead in bed. Bbisbanb. August 3. An aboriginal murdered his gin at Eeppel and escaped to the bush. Sydmet, August 3. In June last a man was accidentally killed at Parramatta, but up to the present it was impossible to identify the body. It is now asertained that deseased was Archibald Bair, a native of Otago. The prisoner Hewatt, who committed the terrible outrage in a police cell, in Juno, on another prisoner named Parkes, has he^n sentenced to death. The jury fecuinmendtfd him to mercy.