LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 135, 21 May 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

ARREST OF THREE DOCTORS. EXECUTION BY ELECTRICITY. A^WOMAN POISONED. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright(PEß UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received May 21, 12.30 p-m. London, May 20. Obituary — Mrs Dallas Glynn, Shakes^ perean. actress, At the inquest on the remains of the late Irving Bishop the Coroner gave the decision that the autopsy was illegal without the consent of the relatives, and the three doctors who took part in the operation have been, arrested. It is Mrs Maybrick (not Mrs Adams as previously telegraphed) who is accused of poisoning her husband's brother. She is a niece of Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the Confederate States-

Wallace Ross, who is now in England, has accepted the challenge purporting to be put out by Laycock, Rome, May 20. His Holiness the Pope is improving in health.

Piias, May 20. Thirteen members of the American Republican Party who are on a visit to the Paris Exhibition have been entertained at a banquet by the French GovernmentCONBTANTINOPLE, May 20. The Sultan has forwarded to the Emperor and Empress of Germany presents of the value of seventy thousand poundsNew York, May 20 Kenmuir, the murderer, will be executed by electricity on June 24. It is considered probable that the Chess; Tournament will be won by Weiss by half a point, Tschesgorin 2nd, Gunsberg | 3rd, and Blackburne 4th. Berlin, May 20. Prince Bismarck, in referring to the strike among Westphalian colliers, said. the Government would take measures to prevent a minority paralysing all industryPydney. Tina Day. The barque Enchanter had an eventful voyage. She left Cardiff in June 1883---with a cargo of coal for Panama; and unexpectedly turned up in Sydney short of provisions, after being 179 days put. She left again on December 30, and is now reported to have been sunk at sea. A monster meeting of Loyalists was held last night, at which resolutions were passed denouncing Dillon's Mission, and expressing sympathy with the Imperial Government in the Irish difficulty-

London. May 19. Henri Rochefort, arrested for attempted, shooting, has been bailed out by Frank Harris, editor of the Fortnightly Review. The Directors of the British IndiaSteam Navigation Company have despensed with the services of Captain Burkett, of the s.s. Jtuxma, for marrying alady passenger who was betrothed to a» doctor residing in Brisbane. . The Directors consider such conduct most reprehensible, and have taken, this step as' a-. warning to their other officers. Mr Gladstone will' spread the Whitsuntide recess on a yachting cruise on the* Devonshire and Cornwall coast. He intends to address meetings on the mainland during his cruise. Sydney. May 20 Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier, intends to open a correspondence shortly with the Premiers of other colonies ' in order, if possible, to obtain concerted action by the whole colonies in respect to the Chinese: question. Arrived — Brigantine Reaper, from San Francisco, with 30,000 sacks of wheat -j barque Earl Granville, from Lyttelton,. with 13,000 sacks of wheat.