LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 78, 5 January 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (per press association.) London. Jsinu-iry 1. A girl 10 years of age has been o *- raged, and murdered at Youthbridgi, Somersetshire. The body was shockingly mutilated. No arrests have been made, Mr Matthews, the Home Secretary, refused to reprieve the two lads who brutally murdered an overseer at Tunbridge Wells, and they were repentant at the last. The Pall Mall Gazette says the Queen recently sent a present of JG2S to Miss Wiedemann, the plaintiff in the breach of promise against the heir to the Earldom of Orford. The English Government view the visit of Mr Gladstone to the Vatican with disfavor. The name of the Bradford murder victim was Gill, which gave rise to the supposition that the child was a girl. At the inquest the police are endeavoring to prove that the accused Burnett and the boy were delivering milk when the former decoyed him into the stables and there committed the crime. January 4. It is rumoured that the Princess Louise of Wales is engaged to Lord Fife. It is expected that the Committee of National Defence will recommend the immediate construction of many ironclads and fast cruisers for the purpose of bringing up the Navy to an adequate strength. The following are the latest quotations for frozen meat : — Australian mutton, 3£d; New Zealand mutton, 3£d ; beef, 3£d to 4d. Money is declining, owing to the abundant supplies. A lad named Stevenson, 19 years of age, stabbed a Glasgow prostitute in the neck and abdomen. The woman was not killed, but is in a precarious condition. The culprit was remanded. He admitted that the desire to imitate Jack the Ripper had induced him to commit the crime. Berlin, Jannare 4 Lieut. Wissman has been invested with the powers of the Imperial Commissionary to suppress the rising in Zanzibar. Melbourne, This Day. At a meeting of the Royal Standard Investment Company Mr W. J. Larnach, of Dunedin, charged the Directors with buying property £320,000 in excess of its value. . .