THE LATEST.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 41, 20 September 1890, Page 2

THE LATEST.

London, September 18, At "the Bank of New Zealand meeting, extreme satisfaction was expressed at the improved position of the Bank- The debentures of the Estates Company are now quoted at a premium of 2 per cent. Messrs j. Dillon and W. O'Brien were arrested on a charge of inciting tenants not to pay rent, owing to the potato blight which has attacked the crop. Warrants have also been' issued for :thei arrest of Messrs Patrick O'Brien YM;P. for Tip perary N,ortb(, David Sheedy (M.P. for Galway'Soutft), &M 'Thomas J: Condon (M.P. for Tipperary East) on the same charge. . • ' . • : Seven hundred bales of New Zealand hemp have been sold at ah irregular advance m pricei Good Wellington, is quoted at £21 10s ; fair quality, £20 10s.; The price for frozen meat is improving; Other meat quotations are unchanged. The wool market is very fi r m. Penak©, September 18. Four million Chinese at ;Chihli and Lantang have been rendered homeless, owing to floods. Eeceiyed September 20, 10.20 a.m. London, September 19. The match now proceeding at ManChester is against all England. The, Australians are all out for 234; Barrett, 97 ; Murdoch, 57. All England have lost one wicket for 10 runs. { ' . Obituary— Dion Boucicault, the well known actor and dramatist. . BjbbliXN, September 19. The Eeichauziegier says it is Unsafe at present to abolish domestic slavery in German Africa, but slave trading and export of slaves will be prohibited.