LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 87, 16 January 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION). London, January 14. Mr Garner has secured the Australian rights on behalf of the "Triumvirate" to Gilbert and *ulii van's new opera,' " The Gondolier." Obituary— Lord Napier of Magdala aßtat 79, and Lord Cairns. Both these noblemen fell victims to influenza, aggravated in Lord Cairns' case by pneumonia; ; : .- . Cairo, January 14. Mr H. H. Stanley received a briU hant reception on hie arrival in this city He^was entertained at a banquet t>oth by the Khedive and the British residents. .; - New York, January 15 V Murphy, the New Zealand pugilist; knocked out Weir, of ?au Francisco, in 14 rounds. ' ■ .Sullivan and Jackson fight ur^ah Francisco, for 15,000 dollars. The Governor of Ohio praises the Australian system of ballot which has been tried in that ; Zanzibar, January. 14. „ Gravenruth, a German officer, r*- ; ported to nave been captured by the Arabs, has arrived at Bagomoya. ' . . Sydney, January 15V Heavy rain has fallen throughout the colony, and the harvest in the northern district is suffering considerably. . '..-.. - Beisbanb, ja-nnary 14.; The Glaston bury Creek was flooded by heavy rain, and came, down- m .a , solid wall of water twenty feet high. : Three houses were washed away,; and a woman named Mrs Cooniber was drowned, along with three of her children. fe ; ;