GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 38, 23 October 1888, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright TPEIt UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London. October 20. Further parts of th<? human body dis* covered a fortnight ago at Whitehall, hAve -recently come into the possession of the police, They bear evidence that a terrible murder had been committed. The corp-e was dismembered aud so disfigured that indentififiation is impossible. Tallow —Best mutton, 29s to 29s 6*d ; best heef, 28s. The stock on hand is lIO.tMM) casks. Hides 4d to _£d. Iron (Gospel Oak brand) Ll7 10s. The official report of tho murder of Major Barttelot has been received by the Mouse authorities. It states that Major Barttelot was attempting to stop the incessant drumming carried on by some men belonging to his party when one of them suddenly turned on him and : shot him dead.

In speaking at Belfast last night the Marquis of Hartington urged the Unionists and Conservatives to fight the elections to tho House of Commons unitedly. The successor to Sir Wm Jervois as Governor of JNew Zealand is still kept a sieerect. but it is believed that the gentleman appointed is a Duke, whose name name has uot been permitted to transpire. The action of The Times in omitting the name of Davitt from the charges presented to the Parnell commission is regarded by the Irish party as peculiar and unexplainable.

A. J. Balfour, Secretary for Ireland, speaking at Manchester, showed that the Irish policy adopted by the present Government had led to reducing crime aud outrage in Ireland, and asserted that the provisions of the Crimes Aot were not so rigid ljr enforced as the coercion measures taken by he Gladstone Government. Obituary— Rear»Admir»l Shortland (retired). Berlin-, October 20. The Royal Palace at Potsdam was to day draped in crape ou the occasion of the anniversary of the late Emperor's birthday. A deputation of the leading citizens of Borlin waited ou the Dowager Empress Victoria to day and informed her that the civic authorities had deoidI ed to establish, oa an extensive scale, a benevolent institution to perpetuate the I memory of the late Emperor Frederick.