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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 65, 8 November 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

« By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PKR UVITIiD PRESS ASSOCIIfION ) London, November 6. lv the Divorce Court, a woman wh • had married her deceased sister's husband applied to have the marriage declared null and void. Mr Justice Brett decided in favour of the petitioner. Lord Kennion, of the Hush Court of Justice, Scotland, has decided the question of jurisdiction and allowed the action brought in Scotland by Mr Purneli against the Times to proceed. The English wheat market is weak, with prices unchanged. The Continental market is inactive, while the Ameri* can is declining. There i« an increased weakness on the average of English wheat is quoted at 32s 3d. The American visible supply has receded to 33,750,000 bushels. The Parnell Commission have had under examination witnesses of various classes, the evidence proving that numerous outrages and boycotting were the result of the action taken by the Land League. A reporter of the New York Herald deposed that in 1879 Mr Parnell revised an interview he had with him. VI r Parnell admitted that they must put pressure on the weak and cowardly among the Irish tenantry. In his speech at Birmingham, Mr Gladstone said he would never retire from Parliament while the Irish question remained unsettled. He admitted that the union between the Conservatives and Unionists was becoming perfect, and he hoped the latter had discerned t : >at they must either do justice to Ireland or swallow Toryism. Nbw Yobk, November 6. The New York Herald states that in the Presidential election the Republican candidates, General Harrison, oarried New York and it believes that he will be elected. Sxdnet, Novemltc 7. It is estimated that the miners' .*mke has cost the mine masters and men over £150,000Information has been received that Dr Drummond, the levanter from Ash field New South Wales, was arrested at Colombo on board the North German Company's steamer Hohenstanfen, which left Sydney for Bremen via Colombo and other ports on October 12th. The prisoner, seeing that all means of escapewere hopeless, took a heavy dose of person, and within five minutes deaths resulted. The pseudo medico was wanted on charge of larceny of L 6500 belonging to his wife. A large sum of money, more than sufficient to cover the wife's loss, was discovered among the effects of the deceased.