LATE CABLES

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5530, 20 May 1889, Page 3

LATE CABLES

|_PBB FBESB ASSOCIATION.—COPYEIQHT.J

(Received May '20, noon.) THE MARKETS.

London, May 18. Tallow, medium mutton 24s Cd, medium beef 245. Double boiled linseed oil, Is 9|d per gallon. Ttie English wheat market is declining:, tho Continental is dull, and tbe American is declining and weak. Oft-const cargoes are not meeting with ready sale. For Australian, new crop on passage, sellers ask 355. Now Zealand, on passage, average 34s Od. Beans, average, 38s. VISCOUNT MANDEVILLE. The prosecutor of Viscount Mandeville refuses to give evidence. The Magistrate insists on sending the case to the Public Prosecutor. OUR LATE GOVERNOR. May 19. Sir William Jervois has arrived in London. It is understood that he will shortly be appointed to superintend some important military engineering works. R ARRESTED IN LONDON. M. Rooliefort has been arrested for attempting to shoot Pilotil, an artist, in Kegent-street. Pilotil first Hssaulted Rochefort. The police refused General Boulanger'e bail for his friend MURDER. The widow of " Stephen Adams," the song writer, has been charged with poisoning her late husband's brother, James Maybrick, a Liverpool merchant. ROW IN THE REICHSTAG. During a debate on the Workmen's Insurance Bill, Herr Richter interrupted Prince Bismarck in the Reichstag by calling "bosh." Prince Bismarck retaliated hj saying Herr Richter whs impudeut. Herr Bamberger then violently attacked Prince Bismarck, who called Bamberger an insolent fool. He then left in a rage, a. tumult resulted, and tho lieiehstug adjourned till Monday. THE WESTPHALIAN STRIKE. Tho Fromdenblatt applauds the course adopted by the Emperor William in the matter of tho disputes between tho colliers on strike and the mine owners, and says that his action will bo ever lnemorablo as showing that he is not as other monarohs who reign but do not rule, but tl at his labors make him tho supreme mediator and arbiter of truth in. tho Empire. DISASTROUS STOKMS. There have been heavy storms iv Austria and South Germany which, lmvo caused imrueiiHt* damage to bridges and railways. There has benn great loss of life and numerous cuttle were drowned, while the crops were devastated with hail-stones. THEATRICAL. Mr. Garner, of Messrs. Williamson, Musgrove, and Garner, has purchased the Australian rights of " Paul Jones." The piceo will be staged at Christmas in Melbourne Miss Clara Melville has been engaged by Mr. Garner, us prima donna, replacing Miss Nellie Stewart, who has been in ill-health for «ome time back, though appearing in the " Yeomen of the Guard."