LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 136, 10 May 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

O'DOKOVAK KOBSA'S LIBEL CASE, ANOTHEY ASTLIJM BtJBNED. 25 PATIENTSi BURNT TO DEATH. By Electric Teiegraph.—rCopyrighfc IFKB UNITED PBKBS ASSOCIATION). , , Washington, May 9. O'Donovan? Ross* was fined 100 s dollar* for libelling Fatriok Cassidy. , A lunatic asylum at Chicago-h as beer* burnt down; 25- patients lost kheirlives^ • London, May 0. The report that Mr Stanley, is to be 1 knighted, is denied.- ■■- - Mr O'Brien has given notice of< appeal to the- House of Lords against the refusal 7 to grant him a new. trial. a - I , New Zealand? hemp— Maximum" quality, £22 5s to £& 10s. I New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stock,. 106ii»£ per cents*. 98.v . v ' i The' steamer Thessaly jettiseneif iOOO" : carcases of frozen she«p. on th«: voyager \ from the Plate to Liverpool- • ; Miss Cornwall, who^ lately visited. England for the purpose amongst other things, of floating a scheme- for bhildmg: : 1 an outer harbour at Adelaide has receivedtenders for £65OftOQr. Financier* : are< ready to provide the necessary- capital,, provided it shall not exeeeoV seven-Iran-dred thousand peimds. •" . . . ... : — • ; Frozen meat is unchanged*. Wool is steady. : . The imports for April have impressed at million and a half r and Jhe. exports havd' increased seven hundred thousand com^ pared with the same month? Jast year, ST»i«T>May9 At the "Wesleyan Cenference,y th»- Rev--Mr Lewis , moved a resolution, 1 " That,with a view to securing the. independent action of New Zealand r the Conference^ should proceed on hnes enabUng.it to cooperate with Australia. The .Bey. Mr~ Nye, of Victoria, moved as an. amendment, protesting against any change in; the constitution of a General Coßference, The debate was ad jdurned till Monday r The Egena mutineers, who were convicted by court-martial, will W senfc Home to serve tbeir sentences, MsxißoirßNE r Thw Irsj. The Bishop of Melbourne has instructed! the clergy not to celebrate the marriage; of any persons divorced under the newr Victorian Divorce Act, . -