CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 392, 10 August 1889, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

London, August 5. An analyst attached to the Home Office, who has been engaged investigating the Maybrick case, states tha* the death of Mr Maybrick was not caused by arsenical poison. The result of his investigations showed that death resulted from gastroenteritis. The prisoner, Mrs Maybrick, who is charged with poisoning her husband, stated that she purchased fly-papers for the purpose of making a facewash the night before Mr Maybrick died. Her husband implored her to give him the powder, and she refused until he declared it would do no harm in his food. She then placed the powder in a tin of meat juice. She then left home, and when she returned her husband was asleep. He had never tasted the contents of the tin, and she was unaware that they were arsenical until after his death had taken place. Sir W. Ewart, Bart, member of the House of Commons for Belfast North, died to-day. The deceased was Mayor of Belfast in 1859 and represented that city in 1878. He was a merchant and linen manufacturer, and in 1864 he was one of the deputation for Belfast which negotiated a Treaty of Commerce with France. He was educated at the Belfast Acadance and was 72 years of age. He was a " Jubilee Baronet/

Victoria, 8.C., August 5. The Canadian fishing schooner Black Diamond, which was recently captured by an American man-o-war on prohibited water in Behring Straits, escaped from her consort, and has arrived at Victoria with an American prize master, who had been placed on board.

Sydney, August 6. Captain Hansby, master of the steamer Dupleix, and formerly master of the Union Company's steamer Hawea, which was lost at New Plymouth, was entering a tramcar to-day, when he fell, and was crushed to death by the wheels.