LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 134, 18 May 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — OopyrightI fKB UNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] Received May 18, 1025 p-m. London, May 17. Obituary — Earl of Malmesbury r aged 8-2. Ekwrager Queen of Bavaria, The funeral of Irving Bishop has been postponed io consecjuettee of tbi???" allegation made by his widow that the* autopsy was performed while her 'hua-. : " band was in a cataleptic tranee. It has been decided- to-erfefr tber-: tenants on the Irish estates of Viscounfr Maßsereene r and replace them with Ulster protestants. It is feared bjoodshed will result if the decision is- • carried ovtt~ ':■.':■ ■ ■_ ■ WjiSHiNOTOsr, May 16. In a. drunken orgie : in . Washington;' : territory, a quarrel eAsued in which S men were shot dead!.- --! ■ : ■■'<■ ■ i . : ■■'■ . j "',\ London, May IT

The widow of Irving Bishop, the» thought-reader, asserts .that Ler husband was dissected while in a eater '. leptic tranee, and adds that he had : frequently lain^ ia a'atatßlsf "ciStai'e'psjr* I for a period of 48r hours. Mrs Bishop; ; ; states that the autopsy was- performed ; before his- friends, and -relatives wer# able to interfere. The will of the deceased gentleman, ordered' that hi* body was not ta be touched^ until decomposition wa» in an advanced state. The widow aecuses the medical gentlemen who performed the autopsy of murder; .-.; j .-' . -■■ :;■■-•- Jli -. .--t- ;" i -„a v -: ; '..._, ■... i. Bwsbane. MajilSfo v -:* A man namedi;?Pbwerl£amd'two' women, were drowned .at Bustard Head, near Port; (partis/ through ak boat, upsetting. •'> [.:,■*. ■:'■'.'•(..- >-x--<:''\,-;-A rich; silyer: l»de . has !; beenL:dla> covered sixty miles . from.Gloncurry, & copper mining centre in Burke district. ,An assay gives eighty hundred ouncesto the ton. The load is said to be- > traceable for thirty iniles. : ' . Stjemtbt, May 17. News- received from. Singaporestates that the Norwegian baroque* Norway, bound from Singapore to•TX&vr York, had foundered on thepassage, but fortunately the crew reached Mauritius in safety. : . v . The G-overnment 1 have received, iu- : formation that the woman upon whom, the man Buttner was committed for ' criminal assault, and 1 for which he was sentenced to death, is of evil repute. The woman confessed to having en jCouraged Buttner, and: the Government have therefore decided to com- : mute the death sentence: ' ? : MELBOCfENB, MttJ -17; = Owing to the points- on ; the-Nor^b Melbourne JB^ilway lin» being^leffc open, three carriages of the Williamstown train were derailed, fell: over on their sides. Twelve ' persons, were injured j two seriously, iwhbhave since died. ...; ;•:.•:. ;:.-; ,i'_ Qttbbeo, May 16. By a disastrous ■'. fire which broka out to day 500 houses were destroyed. Over 1 000 people have: Keen rendered homeless and are camped out ia» the fields. ; ; : '■'"■