LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 40, 17 September 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph* —Copyright IPEB UNITED PREBS ASSOCIATION. [ London, September 15. Sir Wilfred Lawson, M.P., the wellknown temperance advocate, is in a precarious state of health. The English wheat market is lifeless, the Continental unchanged, and American steady. Tallow— Medium mutton, 26/3 ; medium beef, 24/3.^ The death is ; announced of ,tbe Eev. Mr Bentoul, a Presbyterian Minister of " Dublin. Fricke, ' who was the first Euro* pean to escape from Khartoum, has pub' fished a statement that he saw General Gordon die, he having been killed by one of his own soldiers. . September 16. The hop harvest i» nearly concluded. ; The field will be up to the average, and is of fine quality, Jem Smith and P. F. Slavin will sign articles this week for a fight for ,£2OO a side, } Constantinople, September 15. > It is stated that the Sultan' has acceded; , to the demand for the appointment of & Christian Governor of Crete, and also to ' formulate a liberal measure of self-govern-ment. . r , , Pißrs. S°pfember 16 . It is reported that. the Cabinet are discussing the necessity of placing Paris in a state of siege during the general elections' of members for .the Chamber of Deputies-, Chicago, September 15. No fewer than, 350 jurors were challenged in the Cronin murder case. .Rome. September 15: Signor Crispi, Italian Premier, was struck by a stone in the street, but only slightly hurt. . Melbourne, September 16. Costello, who was convicted' on a charge of murdering a woman named Annie Thornton at the beginning of July, was executed to-day.