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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5011, 20 May 1889, Page 3

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TOWN EOITIM.

THIS DAY.

(Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Per Press Association.)

(Received noon, May 20th) SIR. W. F. D. JERVOIS,

London, May 19.

Sir W. Jervois, |ex-Governor of Now Zeaiand, has arrived here. It is stated that ho will shortly be appointed to superintend some important military engineering works. COMMERCIAL. Tallow, mutton, 24s GJ ; beef medium 245, Linseed double boiled,ls 9|d per gallon, Tho English wheat market is declining; the continental market is dull; American wheat is declining. Off coast cargoes do not meet with ready sale. For Australian new crop on passage, sellers ask 35s ; Now Zealand wheat on passage is selling at an average of 34s 9J, Beans average 35s per 5041b5.

(Received 12.30 p.m., May 20th.) NEW OPERA FOR AUSTRALIA London, May 19.

Mr Garner, of the firm of Williamson, Garner and Musgrave, has purchased the Australian right for “ Paul Jones,” and the opera will be produced in Melbourne at Christmas, with Clara Melville as prima donna in place of Nellie Stewart, who is now playing the leading role in “The Yeoman of the Guard.” A FEMALE POISONER, f

Mrs Adams, widow of Stephen Adams, has been arrested on a charge of poisoning her husband’s brother, James Maybrick, a merchant of Liverpool.

PRAISING THE EMPEROR WILLIAM.

Berlin, May 19

The Fremdenblai says that the Emperors action in receiving a deputation from the strikers will be ever memorable, that it is not the length of the Monarch’s reign, nor his rule, but his labours that make him the supreme mediator and arbiter in the cause of truth.