LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 69, 8 December 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

- — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | LoMK>N, 1 lecerober 7. Eefore The Times Parnell-Coninus-sion on Thursday last a .ritness named Burke, au Irish farmer, gave evidence as to the determination arrived at by the Coubue branch of the League to the murder of Lord Mounttnorri-j, and stated that he was asked to assist in the murder. The witness deposed that he had consented to assist in the murder, but eventually declined to have anything to do with the affair. On the night of the murder he (the witness stated) was informed by a companion that the deed had been committed, and that Lord Muntmonis was dead. Sir Charles Russell considerably damaged the witness in croesexamination, without, however, shaking the main points of the evidence. Sir Walter Buller has disposed of the New Zealand Antimony Company's gold mines for LIO,OOO each and 125,000 paid-up shares in the company which is now being formed, with a capital of L 250.000, to work the property. Mutton tallow, 84/6 to 35/- ; beef tallow, 33/6 to 34/. The present stock in is 8000 casks, or 2000 casks more than last week. An address has been presented to Mr John Dillon by one hundred and fifty-five Liberal members of the House of Common, sympathising with him in the unmerited sentence of imprisonment passed on him in June last. The present season in England is unparalleled, the weather being oppressively warm, and the temperature that of midsummer. Bomb, December 7. Signor Crispi, Italian Premier in the course of a speech in the Senate, said that at the present time the relations between Italy and France were of a cordial nature. Bkene, December 7. The German Government have informed the French Government that the presence of a number of French officers in Germany is undesirable, on the ground that their actions and motives are not above suspicion. Melbocenk. DeceinV 7 The Australasian, in an article on the present agricultural outlook of Australia, says that New Zealand is evidently the favoured colony this season, and that, with the prospect of good crops and high prices, the silver lining is apparent in the cloud j which has for so long hung over " Greater ! Britain." The North Rochester district felt the drought more severely than the southern division of the province. In and about the vicinity of Barnawarn many crops will not yield more than a bag to the acre, and will not be harvested. Received December 8, 1245 p.m. London. December 7. The property disposed of by Sir Walter Buller, on behalf of the New Zealand Antimony Company, is a goldmine discovered on their ground, and not the antimony workings. Sydney, This Dav. Patchey rains are reported in the Wilcannia district. The heat up country is intense.