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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 115, 26 March 1892, Page 2

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Per s.s. Mararoa at Auckland.) A couple more servant girl murderers were unearthed in Berlin on the 23rd February They pursued the same plan as the Schneiders iv Vienna, murdering, for the purpose of robbery, their unfortunate victims, One woman, whose name is Buntrock, broke aown, and made a full confession. It is asserted in Court circles that the Queen and the Duke of Fife quarrelled, and that the Duke was cruelly snubbed by H r Majesr* for attempting to com» mence a conversation. John Soodall, the evangelist, has been lndentified by Mrs Siddellg as her assail* aut in a railway carnage. On February 26th a band of masked men went to the house of a woman named Mary Leppers, in the village of Mmmi, Austria, and forced their way into her bedroom. They bound her with cords, poured petroleum over her, and applied a match, and then calmly watched the horrible scene. The woman's shrieks and groans were blood-curdling; The motive assigned for the act is that the woman is suspected of murdering her husband. Professor McLeod, of McGill University, Montreal, reported on February 10th that he had discovered a monster new 6pot on the sun, and sent all the observers in the United States to the telescopes. Professor Wendell, of Boston, at once began to take viewa of the aun on white paper, and measured the spot to be 100,000 miles long, by 50,000 miles wide. He said the spot occupies one-seventh of the sun, and is the most mangificent display m the la9t twenty years. It will be immediately followed by magnetic disturbances on the earth, and we may expect a violent storm somewhere on the surface before long. The effects on the earth will begin to be manifest this summer, and the atmospherical disturbances will increase in intensity for the next two months. During this period there will be an abnormal increase in the number and intensity of the cyclones.