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Western Star, Issue 1354, 15 May 1889, Page 3

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HO MR AND FORKICr.N". ; [press association tki.kghams.] London, May 10. The Queen Charlotte Sound Gold Mining Company of'"New Zealand with a capital of £200,000, has been registered. Tt is expected the charge of murder, ou ! which Father M'Padden stands committed I for tria l , will be withdrawn. The charges against several others, who aro alleged to be implicated in tho death of Inspector Martin* will, however, be.gone on with, I Surrey County has refused t" allow Spofforth to play for Derbyshiio The theory at first set np that T)r Cronin, a friend of Major Lo Caron's, had been murdered at Chicago has been abandoned. The English wheat market is depressed ; the Continental is unchanged; while the American exhibits an upward . tendency. : Australian flour, ex store, averages 27s per : sack; of 2001bs; Now Zealand, ex store, 255, j for forward business. ..-•••; May 13. New Zealand hemp is quoted at £3G 5s to i 330105. ,' ; _ The N.Z. mails have been doli'vered in 35 j :ays from time of departure—the quickest I lime on record. . • ,' i The s.s. Bothwell Castle is loading wheat at Bombay for Sydney and Hobnrt. j The London Telegraph's Paris correspond- I ont states that Madame Melba is the greatest I Ophelia who has appeared on the operatic } stage since Madame Christine Nilsson, who j :, r avo a farewell concert in London last year. Mr W. Bright, second sou of the lato John Bright, sails for Australia on Thursday. New York, May 12. A cyclone pissod over the .Eastern States of America, doing great damage. In ono place, where it was being exhibited, Barnnm's show was partially wrecked. In Maryland twenty-five poisons wero blown from a bridge, and numerous deaths occurred. The projected fortifying of Vancouver Island has created a scare in Washington, it being alleged that it places the eastern coast of America absolutely at the mercy of the British in case of war. A. tram car loaded with passengers collided *vith a railway train on a .Ipvel crossing in Michigan. Six women wcrejkilled. • , ' ... . . jtKms, May 10. Madame Melba, a Melbourne cantatrice, •vhq is appearing in this city-in. the character of Ophelia,-was recalled three times during the progress of the of era. '* -.-:;. -, ••; -. ' ;'.>•,' Berlin,' May 11. .Over iOOjObO colliers are out on strike at Westphalia. Another collision has occurred between the military and strikers in which several of the latter were; killed, besides a number injured. The minersare bitterly'incensed against the military portion of Westphalia. Those on strike insist on the adoption of tho eight hours system. ..;.,•' Rome, May 10. . .Vesuvius is again in a state of activity, and a fresh eruption of laya is creating anxiety, The'ltalian Government have refused toextradite two murderers that came to Italy i'rOm .Pennsylvania.' ""'■' v ; ; Hongkong, May 11. 'lnformation reached'here that the Maridinas has been in collision off the Philippine Islands, and 60 persons drowned. .. . ■' ; ' : ■ INT E R'CO LONIAL. ••,!; i.i ■■ ...-• Sydney,'-May 11. .Sit' T. Esmonde and -Messrs J. Dillon and , Deasy; Irish delegates, arrive 1 here las- night and received a great ovation, immenso crowds turning out to meet them. ' " ■' Trouble is brewing among tho coal miners . at Newcastle. The men! working in the Waratah mine have passed a : resolution demanding an increase of 6d per ton in hewing rates, and as the proprietors do not feal inclined to agree to the request' a strike is feared. i •: ■ ■ Brisbane, May 13. Watson, a squatter, and Evans, a stockman, were attacked by blacks near Cooktown, Watson being speared to death and Evans severely wounded. The besp Remedy ior Indigestion.— ; Norton's Camomile Pills are confidently r.econimenJed as n Simple Remedy for Indigestion,' which is the cause of nearly all the 1 diseases to which we are subject. Norton's Pills, wilh justice called the " Natural Strengthener of the Stomach," act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient, are mild in then operation, and safe under any circumstance?. ' iiold in bottles, at Is lid, 2s" 9d, lis, by all .Medicine Vendors throughout the World. Lord Aberuiarle, the Waterloo vet- , oran, is a small spare man with bright eyes. He wears a small velvet skull cap. He is now eighty-nine years old, and is the sole survivor of the 84 officers who sat down at the Duke of Wellington's last Waterloo dinner. He gives a reception every year on the anniversary of that world's earthquake. 0-ie Box of Clarke's B 41 Pills is warranted o cure ail discharges from the Urinary Organs in either tox (acquire,l or consti l.uiional), Gravel, and Pains in the BackGuaranteed free from mercury. Sold in oxes. 4s fi.i each, by all Chemists aud Patent Vie li'-ine Veadors. Sole Proprietors : The Lin.-O'" and Midland Counties Drug'Company, Lincoln, England. Wliolesalo of all the Wholesale Houses

A number of persons hive been fined :\t Tiroaru for capturing fish by tha mo of dvnamite.

Last week a consignment of 1000 cases containing 24,000 preserved rabbits left Marlborough for England. ■

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