CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 61, 30 October 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PHI* US IT Hit PRESS ASSOCIATI'iP j Sydney. Ociober27

The London correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph sends, ria AI buriy, a report of an interview 'c had with Sir Julius Yogel. lie say« the work Sir Julius is engaged on is a re» niArkabl* political novel, and expressed the opinion tliat if the execution is as striking a» the design, the work will command large attention in the literary world.

Reports credit Sir Julius with having under way a buge financial scheme for purcliaHing the present cable to Austra lia and constructing one from America.

Obitumy— Right Hum William Bede Dalley, P. 0., of ki-lney disease, aged 55.

October 29

A man named Cleghorn has been arrested at Broken Hill, charged with the murder of Ernest Fielder, whom he stabbed recently.

There are no signs of the drought breaking up. In many parts of the Colony the thermometer stands at 103 in the shade. At Broken Hill, trains conveying water arriving daily, and their freight is being sold at 4s per 100 gallons. The Nowra district is extremely dry, and disastrous bush fires are raging in all directions. On one station alone, 20,000 acres of grass have been destroyed. At Gtindagai rain has fortunately fallen over the farming areas, but in Argyle many settlers are selling off their stock, fearing the disastrous results of a dry season The crops in that quarter are also suffer ing greatly, and potato planting has en* tirely ceased. Near Inverell sheep are dying in large numbers. Bush fires are also devastating Namoi district. Burra station has been burned out, and several runs in Walgett and Moree have been destroyed.

Melbourne, October 29,

Mr Charlick, of Adelaide has won the chess championship of Australia. Hay, of Dunedin, did not score.

Adelaide, October 29.

H.M.S. Royalist, recently attached to the Cape and West African Squadron, which left Capetown on the 4th Septem* ber to join the Australian Squadron, arrived Yesterday and has been ordered to Samoa.