THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE LEPERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 388, 27 July 1889, Page 6

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE LEPERS.

The chief sensation in London for the < week ending June 22nd, was over the 1 Prince of Wales's leper. At a meeting hold \ufch the object of found- ' insr a leper hospital in London, the ' Prince in his speecli declared there was a leper employed in a London meat market. At this a fearful outciy was mado < by the butchers and columns of protests were crowded into the papers until the identity of the man was revealed. He proved to be a native Englishman, who had never been out of the country and who made a living peddling oxtaile. lie is an undoubted leper.

MORE MUIIDEBS OF WOMEN. A parcel containing the lower portion of a woman's body, cub m halves, was found in the Thames, at. Horeley Downs, on the morning of June Ith. Another pat eel, in which were a woman's thighs, was picked yip at Battersea. Both were wiapped in pieces of feminine clothing, on which the name Cosher was marked. The trunk and thisrhs were evidently portions of the same body. The remains had evidently been in the water ten days. A dispatch (June 7th) says the polico have learned that the unfortunate woman belonged to Oxford, and was named Fisher. She was a servant in London.

FROZEN MEAT. The cattle and fresh-meat interests ot T. C. and Joseph Eastman, of New York, and John Bell and Sons, of London, Glisgow, and Liverpool, were effected, June 18lh, and the stock of the new concern, known as Eastman's Limited, has been subscribed for in London. The capitalization is £4,500,000. The business in which Messrs John Bell and Sons are engaged is in selling meat shipped to Great Britain from abroad.

A TRAGIC OCCURRENCE. A sensational murder and attempted suicide occurred on June 22, in Lambeth, almost under the shadow of the palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Nab. Currah last year confided his daughter to the caie ofGeo. Letine, otherwise known as Goring, themanagerof the Letine Acrobatic Troupe. Miss Currah was young, beautiful, and a skilful performer on the bicycle. Some months ago the father was led to believe she was abused by Letine, and had him charged at Caidift" with cruelty to the girl. Letine was acquitted. The girl returned home, and died there a month later with consumption. The unhappy father brooded over the circumstances and became insane. Meeting Letine outside Lambeth Hall on the date above mentioned, he attacked him with a knife, stabbed him to death, and then attempted to blow out his own biains. He was picked up writhing, but not fatally injured from beside his , victim's corpse. He raves continually of his daughter's wrongs, and declares he is glad they are avenged.