HOME AND FOREIGN.
Received September 13, 1.30 a.m. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. London, September 11. The Rev. Mr. Barfield, well known as an active Liberal-Unionist lecturer, has disappeared for the last fortnight, and it is suspected he has been enticed to Ireland and murdered by Invincibles. A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT KILLED. London, September 11. Mr. N. Fitzwilliam, M.P. for Peter borough, has been killed by a fall from his horse. COLONIAL SINGERS IN LONDON. London, September 12. Mrs. Bethel, of Melbourne ; Mr. C. M. J. Edwards, of Wellington ; and Mr. F. Morton, who came home with Mr. Cowen from the Melbourne Exhibition, have been allotted leading partsin an operetta by Randegger. SUICIDE FROM POVERTY. London, September 12. The wife of the man Pearce, who has succeeded to a fortune of over a millior pounds in Sydney, committed suicide in June last on account of poverty. DEATH OF THE PRINCE OF MONACO. London, September 12. The Prince of Monaco is dead, and gambling has been abolished in the principality. LONDON COMMERCIAL. London, September 11. The quantity of wheat and flout afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,788,000 quarters, and for the Continent 348,000 quarters. The American visible wheat supply is 14,125.000 bushels. SHIPPING. Melbourne, September 12. Sailed : Te Anau, for the Bluff. Sydney, September 12. Sailed : Rotomahana, s.s., for Auckland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9469, 13 September 1889, Page 5
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