LATE TELEaKAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 25, 29 July 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEaKAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. FINANCIAL CRISIS IN AMERICA. MURDER AT SEA. HORRIBLE SCENE AT AN EXECUTION. ANOTHER DEEMING. (FEB PRESS ASSOCATION.) London, July 27. One million in gold was shipped from London to New York, and there ia a prospect of more being sent. The New York Exchange is less excited, but further bank and other failures are reported throughout the United States. Mr Bridgeman, chief officer, and Jones, steward, of the ship Burbridge have been arrested in Liverpool on a charge of murdering Captnin Little on the voyage from New Castle, N.S.W. The press generally endorse the decision of the court-martial, and express regret that Rear-Admiral Markhain had not dared to disobey the order, though they are not surprised at his refusal. The body of a woman named Carter was found beneath the floor of a house in Berkshire. The husband hnd preriously heen twice married. The wives had disappeared, and when questioned nbout them he n to led (hey were dead. News has been received that Sir G. Portal, British Commissioner, after starting for the Coast, was urgently recalled to Uganda owing to the unsatisfactory behaviour of the Mahomedan party. Mr Henniker Heaton, MP , of Canterbury, advises the Australian Colonies to retire from the Postal Union. New York, July 27. A horrible scene took place at an electrocution in New York prison. The current failed and the man revived. The doctors administered chloroform, and having replaced him in the chair, switched on the current from a city lamp post.