Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 242, 15 February 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON A powerful company is being onwd here with a capital of £1,000,000, for the purpose of exteudiug the New Zealand frozen meat trade. The promoters of the Company offer producers improved terms m the sale of meat, and better moilities for placing the cargoes on the market. Two thousand carcases of frozen mutton from the Argentine Republic have been landed at Glasgow. Information has been received from Jamaica, a British colony in the West Indies, that three murders have taken place at Spanish Town, one of the principal towns in the island. In each instance the victim was mutilated in the same manner as the unfortunate women at Whiteqbapel, and in one case a oard, bearing the name of •• Jack the Ripper," was pinned to the clothes of the victim. No cause has been assigned for the foul detdt. News to hend from Burmah states that the British forces captured a stockade at Bhamo, defended by 900 Dacoits, losing 5 killed and 12 wounded only, in : the assnlt. A panic has been caused among the Australians residing m Great Britain owing to 500 of them having been summoned by the Income Commissioners for the tax on income It is reported that the authorities engaged the services of a spy for the purpose of gaining information as to the financial position of the Australians. >Serve them right. Before the Times -Parnell Commission to-day Major Lecaron unde rwent a severe cross-examination at the hands of Sir Ciiarles Russell, counsel for the Parn'Jlites, but his testimony was not shaken. The trial of Molloy, one of the Ii ivincibles, who was arrested last wee ik on a oharge of perjury, took place ttV day. Daniel Delaney, one of the men who were arrested for attempt ?• ing to murder a juryman in thii Hynes case, deposed that Molloy wast deeply involved in all plote with i which thelnvincibles were eonneoted, and also the plots to murder " Buck- . shot" Forster, the twelve jurymen, Judge Lawson, Anderson and the Crown Solicitor, who were concerned in the trial of Francis Hynes. Mr Ormskirk states that, although Mr Gladstone received the reports of Major Lecaron as to the. doings of the Invinoibles and Land League, he proposed to entrust the destiny of Ireland to the Land Leaguers. Mr Parnell has commenced an action against The Times in Dublin.