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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 271, 24 March 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

MR GLADSTONE'S FAREWELL TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. FATAL EXPLOSION. 12 PEOPLE KILLED. j i ANOTHER "JACK THE RIPPER' 1 i ATROCITY. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). London. March 22. Lord Lubbock has made a start in forming the Brittanic League on the lines of Sir Chas. Tupper's j>roposal. An invitation has been sent to the Colonial Agents-General to join in the movement, but the latter will refer the question to their respective Governments before deciding. Dr Nettlesliip certifies that Mr Gladstone lias a cataract on both eyes. Mr Gladstone, in a letter to Mr John Cowan, Chairman of his Midlothian Committee, virtual] . bids a stately and patriotic farewell to his constituents, and warns him that the Democracy are entering on a period of great moral danger, and had better beware of temptation. He urges them to give perseverance to the interests of the whole instead of a part of the com urnnity. The Rev. Thna Sftt geon has beon elected to the Tabernacle, Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Edinburgh, taunted Lord Rosebery with putting his neck under the heel of the Irish by apologising when the Irish tigers raved. New York, March 21. A statement has been received here that at a town in Now York State, the body of a girl of 11 years of age was mutilated in a similar manner to those of the victims of "Jack the Ripper," the murderer then boiling the remains. Rio de Janiero, March 22. President Peixnto has .-ipnl.igiaed fur arresting a number of British blm-juckets Madrid, March 22 A tremendous explosion occurred at Santander, while a party were engeged removing the dynamite from a hulk wrecked in November last. Twelve per sons were killed and 130 injured. Heklin. Morcli 23. Count Von Caprivi. in the Reichstag, stated that Emperor William had concluded the Russian Commercial Treaty, believing that the coming ceutury would demand a coalition of nations in Europe to meet possible events which the nations would be unable to stand singly. Bho.vsh,*. M»rch 23 News haw been received that the Belgian expedition has seized the road leading to Lake Tanganyika, and defeated the Arabs. Washington, Mircli 22. The Semite Committee consider that the treaty between the United States and China has restricted admission of the Chinese into America, Thf American Chinese treaty proposes that the Atnoricaus going to China should be ph"t<>gr&phed and registered similar to the Chinese visiting America.