CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1790, 27 November 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

A DASTARDLY. OUTRAGE FURTHER PARTICULARS Sydney, November 25. The China mail brings particulars of the assassination of the Queen of Korea and thirteen of her ladies in waiting. The Japanese are said to be implicated. Some two hundred Korean soldiers forced an entrance into the Queen’s Palace, accompanied by the old Prince, who was not on good terms with the Queen. The assassins, after killing the women and one officer of the palace guard, many of whom were traitors, destroyed the’bodies by fire. TWO CHILDREN POISONED Sydney, November! 25. Mrs McNamara, of Wariolla, gave her two children a mixture of supposed honey and sulphur, and took some herself The children are dead, and the woman is seriously ill. It is believed that the sulphur was poisonous sheep dip. ALLEGED LIBEL. Sydney, November 25 Mr Kidd, ex-Postmaster-General, , has begun an action against W J. Collins, claiming £2,000 damages for alleged slander during the election campaign. Collins is alleged to bave nublically stated that Kidd allowed his friends to travel with his Parliamentary railway pass.

A CONDEMNED MAN’S STATEMENT Sydney, November 25.

Sheridan made a written statement, witnessed by his solicitor and the governor of the gaol, exnorating his partner Thomas. He also alleges that the latter knew nothing about the circumstances of the death of the woman Nicholls, and that Thomas had only been connected with the Institute a couple of weeks. Sheridan adds that Thomas entered into partnership in the full belief that he was a medical practitioneer, and that he remained so without being enlightened. •■"The confession also states that Nicholls wr.s only a patient received for treatment.