AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 4379, 1 November 1888, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

(Prr Elkothio i blkorafr — Copvßiam.) (Per Prsjw Association.) (Beceivea midnight, Oot. 30th.) PROSECUTION ABANDONED. Sydney, Oct. 30. The Government have abandoned farther charges of intimidation against the Lnmbton miners. THE CHINESE QUESTION. Mr Qnong Tart, the well knnwn Chinese merchant herp, will visit China immediately, m response to a semi-official request from Pekin. Prnbably the summons is m cunnectian with tht> Chinese ditßculty with Australia, nnd the question is sure to he fully discussed. (Received 1.10 p m., Oct. 31st ) THE NATIVE FOOTBALL TEAM. The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald writes that the physique of the Native football team excted tho greatest admiration wherever the; had up to dato appeared. They wen to play most of their London Siakhes on the Richmond ground. THE LONDOM MURDERS. Tie same correspondent states that at the Dquest on the body of tbe last victim of tie London murders, Doctor B ix'er I gaveit as his opinion that there wns every reasoi to believe that the murders were comnitted for the purpose of obtaining specinens of portions of the human body, They vere the work, not of a lunatic, but of a radical student, who was a surgeon, for thi body was cut up m a way thnt ehowel that the assassin knew exactly where-o find the organ he wanted. No meaniiuless cuts were observable, nnd this allied not to one, but to all of the victims THE MANAPOURI. Melbourne, Oct. 31. Sailei — Mannpnuri, fur the Bluff. SEVERE FROST. A severe frost, the most destructive for twenty .'ears, waß experienced last night. Great dimage has been done to the vineyards m tbe Mansfield district. RAIN WANTED. Rain io badly wanted m the Ru'herglen district, or the crops will be rained.