LATE GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 122, 8 April 1890, Page 2

LATE GABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (FEB UNITED PREB3 ASSOCIATION.) Ottawa, April 6. Bircball, the Canadian murderer, has been identified as an imposter who, under the name of Lord Courtenay.; visited Sydney and Melbourne a short time ago. Berlin, April 6. The German authorities deny that Emm Bey haß been employed to take act;oo adverse •to British interests in East Africa. -7 Sydney, April 7 An extensive bank-note forging plant has been discovered at Waterloo, a suburb of Sydney. A man named Steele was arrested, and nearly 500 forged notes were found on his premises-. '.. The floods at Walgett are the highest since 1864. There are only. four houses in the town high and dry. The inhabitants are taking refuge in the public buildings. 1 Brisbane, April 7The Directors of the Mount Morgan Company are considering the offer off seven and a half millions by a« Knghsb syndicate for the famous gold mine. A hermit, named Dusbsca, formerly professor of classics at New York-Uni-versity, has been found murdered near Sandgate.- There is no due to the perpetrators, but the natives are suspected.

Receiyed April 8, 12.15 p.m. - London. April 7 It is now reported that Emm Bey wishes to cancel the agreement entered into with Major Wiseman to join hi . expedition^ and that he intends to return to Europe. Professor Huxley and wife were passen' gers in the Aorangi for New Zealand, which sailed from Plymouth on Saturday, \-~-: ' BsßLiNr April 7. It has been arranged that' a meeting; between Queen Victoria and the Emperor WiUiam will take place at Darmstadt on the 20th inst. Zanzibar, April 7/ News haß reached here that |an expedition consisting of about fifty Somali natives, under Dr Peters and Herr Tiedmann, has arrived at Kawaronda. , Theexpedition is said to be in a destitute-con-dition and on the verge of starvation, the natives being forced to resort to- plunder in order to obtain sufficient food to keep the party alive. ; Sydney, This Day. The township of Bourke, situated on the southern bank of the Darling River, is in a dangerous- position; Owing to the heavy floods it is now an island with miles of water round it. Melbourne, This Day. Influenza ia making rapid progress through the colony;