LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 48, 29 September 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

i » i SUPPOSED CLUE TO THE WHITECAPEL MURDERS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (per united prkss association.) London. September 27The investigation of the Whitechapel murders still continues, and it has been ascertained that an American offered the curator of a London hospital the sum of £20 for each specimen of the uterus he could procure for him. The applicant stated that his object in epdeavoring to procure these specimens was in order to issue the actual specimens with a copy of a«new medical work to be published shortly, and he desired that they should be packed in glycerine to preserve them. The curator refused to entertain the proposal. Acting on the information of one of the coroners, thep >l'ce arrested a man named Fitzgerald on a charge of murder, and he has confessed? to having committed the latest crime. At the wool auctions to-day, 12,000 bales were sold. Berlin, September 27. Prince Bismarck has determined to prosecute the publishers of the extracts from the Emperor Frederick's dairy on a charge of revealing secrets. The Renew, which is publishing the late Emperor's diary, has been directed to stop its circulation. Public opinion is divided and there is much excitement over the publication and its consequent revelations. It has been rumoured that that portion of the diary bearing on the war of 1866 will appear short y. Zanzibab, September 27. The rising against the Europeans has I extended along the entire coast of the i Zanzibar district. Several German officials were murdered at Lindi Bay, north of Cape Delagado. Paris, September 27. The men on strike at Etienne attacked the working coal miners, and it was not till the police charged the note t a with drawn swords that they dispersed.