NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2206, 26 May 1891, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

It is iumored that in Calcutta Lord Lausdowne is accustomed to ramble through the city after dark in disguise to learn what is thought about himself and his rule.

The Saturday half-holiday passed by the New Jersey legislature has caused some consternation in legal circleß, it being claimed that all sheriffs' and public sales held .on Saturday afternoon since March 9th, the date- on which the Bill was signed, are illegal.

The Illinois State Board of Health have decided to recognise do foreign .medical diploma that does not confer upon its possessor the right to practice medicine in the country in which it was granted. Statistics show that 29 per cent of university graduates in foreign institutions were rejected, and many of them came to this country and practised. Reports from various sections of New Jersey show that forest fires are doing immense damage to young timber. Ihe whole forest south of Pomona has been burned, People living on the edges of the town of Conoverton loßt their houses, their furniture beiDg removed to the open fields. Many farmhouses were destroyed. Hundreds of people are .fighting the fire. At Alto and Chiselhurst the whole country is covered with clouds of black smoke, There is much apprehension of the fate -of Baileytown, but it is believed that the experience of the people in fires of this character will serve to save.the town this time. Reports from Read ng, Pennsylvania, say that the fire on the eouth side of Blue Mountain is six miles long, and two wide. At Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, a million feet of valuable timber have already been destroyed, and it is reported that every sawmill on the mountains : between Bellefonte and Lewisburgh has been burned. At a meeting of the Dublin Tenants' Defence Association, a resolution was passed declaring, that, as Mr Paroell had not replied to Mr proposal to release the Paris fund for the benefit of the tenants, the whole sum amounting to £40,000. be immediately devoted to their relief. Sir Michael Davitt, when asked if he intended to make a long stay in the United States, replied that he was only going to California for a rest and to recruit his health.

The Roumanian Government have issued orders stopping the export of maize in consequence of the depletion of stocks. ■ i

THE DISASTER AT ROME. About seven o'clock on the morning ot April'23 a tremendous explosion ■hook the city of Borne to its founds tions,-spreading terror asd dismay on all sides. The people rushed affrighted 'from their "homes' into the streetsy houses recked, pictures fell from the walls, thousands of panes of glass were broken; everywhere crockery was shattered, furniture was overturned, chimneys crashed down upon the roofs, and, in some instances,! toppled over into the streets. The cupolas on Houses of Parliament immediately after the explosion shook, violently, and then collapsed with a, crash; which added still further to tfae| feeding of terror. The scenes iu the streets and in the houses after this, fearful explosion have possibly never before been equalled in the history of modern Europe. The thoroughfares. were strewn with bricks, stones,; splinters, and .other debris, hurled there by the force of the powerful; concussion. Doors, windows and, cupboards were burst ©pen ; rents and; crocks appeared in the walto; plaster! fell from the ceilings; peopl* were; thrown from their beds by the shock ;i and cries of terror filled the air as, thousands of families rushed out into' the streets. ,

~Wh«n something like order was. restored the cause of the explosion; became known. It was discovered; that an immense powder magazine in the Piazza del Fantleo, four kilometers! from Kome, had exploded, and that it had caused enormous damage to the neighboring fort. Previous to the, final explosion the officer in command heard a rumbling eound, and ordered the soldiers to leave the fort. A terrible disaster was thus averted. As it was several peasants who were in the neighborhood were killed; and ' A number of others were more or less

injured. The Vatican shook with jthe rest of the buildings, and several famous historical stained glass dowe were sh\ttered. The full amount of the damage is not known, but the loss is very severe. JACK TEIK RIPPER. (San Francisco mail.) A man and woman wore registered at a cheap hotel at New York on -the night of April 23rd as man and wife They immediately retired. As nothing i was seen of them in the morning the i door of their room was broken jin On the bed lay the woman coveted with blood. She bad been dead 'for hours. Her abdomen was ripped open with a dull broken table knife that lay in the blood. The viscera had been cut, and from appearances part of them was missing. The man had escaped. A very imperfect do scription of him was given to the police, and they went to work onj it with the utmost secrecy and speed. They, think that he is "Jack ihe Ripper." Ihe coroner made a haUy examination of th<3 body, and found that the woman had been dead a number of hours. He removed the clothes from her face and neck, and revealed a ghastly visage. The toague was cut out of her mouth and swollen; the eyes bulged from their sockets; the nose was flattened to tbe facej and about the neck was a circle of congealed blood. The appearance of the face convinced the coroner that the woman had first been strangled, and then cut. On turning over the body it was feuud that the murderer had left his mark. I'he broken end of a knife had been -used to make a large cross on tbe base of the spine. Professor Jennings and the assistant housekeeper, told the police all they. knew.about the case. Tbe housekeeper said that the murdered woman's companion was decidedly German in appearance, but she could not tell from his appearance how long he had been in this country. She said that he resembled a seafaring man. Mary Mnmton said that the woman was a well-known character around the neighborhood, but no one seems to know her, or where she lived, the police are scouring the city and vessels around the dock for the murderer.