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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3748, 6 October 1886, Page 2

THE LATEST.

(Per Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Rbutbk's Agency.) I Received 1 a.m., Oct. Gtb/| GLADSTONE ON HOME RULE. London. Oct. 5. Mr Gladstone m receiving a deputation from Cork, offering him the freedom of that city, declared that he continued m public life m order to settle the question of Home Bule m Ireland. That cause he averred would ultimately triumph. He hoped that thia would come to pass shortly. SENTENCED TO DEATH. Madeira, Oct. 5. The military who were arrested for having risen m revolt m favonr of a republio have been sentenced to death: The Cabinet have, however, advised the Queen to pardon them. (Special to the Prkss Association.) (Received 1.35 am., Oct. Gth.) A WELL DESERVED HONOR. London, Oct. 5. The Sportsman' 8 gold medal has been presented to. Beach. JUBILEE EXHIBITION. Sir Herbert Stanford, British Commissioner to the Jubilee Exhibition, will probably sail on an early date for Adelaide. The British vote of L 2500 towards tbe Exhibition does not allow anything for the representation of British art. QUEENSLAND MINING COMPANY. Messrs Mcllwraith, McEachern and Co., and Messrs Mathe'son and Hatzyard, brokers, constitute the syndicate formed to float the Queensland Mining Co., and Mr McE-.ichern has been selected to visit Queensland m the interests of the syndicate, and will sail by tbe Arawa on Thursday next. COLONIAL WINES. Mr Spiers Denis is making an extensive contract with Messrs Burgoyne and Co. for the supply of colonial winea. RECALLED. H.M.S. Miranda, at present on the Australian station, bas been recalled,.

DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. A gang of raiders shot two daughters of a farmer m Cork for refusing to give them arms which were m a farmhouse.