NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2410, 11 October 1892, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Captain Francis Saunders, a member of the Lyric Club, London, and formerly an officer in the British army, was arrested on the Indian steamer at Liverpool, on August 27th, on a charge of having forged the name of the Earl of Londesbprough to a cheque of £3700. It is believed that the forgeries perpetrated by Saunders amount to £200,000. The Earl of Londesborough is married to a daughter of the Duke of Beaufort. A sensational tragedy took place in Plumpton Cemetery on August 27th. While two women were placing a wreath on the grave of a friend, they were alarmed at hearing a shot near them. They saw nothing however, and started for home, but had not gone a dozen steps before there was another shot, and one of them fell to the ground fatally wounded. The assassin then came into view from behind a tombstone, and fired at the other woman who fell dead with a bullet through her heart. The murderer immediately afterwards shot himself through the abdomen and throat without making any statement as to the motive for the crime. The woman who was first shot hovered between life and death for some time, unable to make any explanation of the tragedy, and finally died. A petition from the United States for the release of Mrs Maybrick, was forwarded to Queen Victoria on August 20. The document is signed by Mrs President Harrison, Mrs James G. Blaine, and other American ladies. According to the usupl course the Queen will forward the petition to the Home Secretary. _ An important witness in this case is said to have died recently in Capetown, after confessing to having committed perjury on the trial. The Home Secretary, Mr Asquith, has declined to advise the Queen on the subject. The Standard Henry George's paper published in New York, suspended on September sth. Its "progress"' had gradually been forwards " poverty " for a year past. W. H. Rocap, a Philadelphia amateur athlete, proposed a fund of 10,000 dois for Sullivan, to be raised by popular subscription. Many friends of Sullivan now express the belief that the exchampion was drugged in the Now Orleans fight, but all the Hamo there is but a slight chance of the amount stated being raised for his benefit. Daniel Bandmann, the German actor, well known in Australia, appears to be a trigamist. Miss Louise Beaudet dissolved partnership with, km, :\nd ia now suing for an equal interest in a Montana ranche which she claims Baudmann bought in part with her money in 1885. In face of this the aeor married the othov day a Califoniian girl named Mary Kelly, and on August 24th a letter was received from Bandmaun's first wife by the editor of a New \ork paper and published. His original wife is Miss Millicout Palmer, a London girl at present in Surrey, whom he married in 18G0 and deserted in 1884, and her infant son and daughter. Three wives and a lawsuit are heavy odds against a man in the battle of life. A single American brig, Majestic, arrived in the Royal roads, Victoria, B.C. on August 31st, bringing Captains McLood, Daley, Keefe, and Eturman. who were released from prison life at Petropaulovsky, where with eighty-four seamen and hunters they wore turned loose to starve and find a living as they could. The Russians confiscated the schooners, and, it is said, destroyed them. Russia is actively assorting jiU'isdoilion in the Bearing Son,, and complicating tho question us between Great Britain and the United States on tho same subject. When Captain McLcod, of the Victoria schooner Ariel, protested to Commander De Levion, of the Russian gunboat, that they had taken no souls In Russian waters, that officer sworo violently, and declared he was going to take every sealing schooner he came across, whether it was within one mile of Russian territory or 1000 miles, it made no difference James M. Brown, of Fart Worth, Texas, a, prominent Turf man and millionaire, shot M'Dowcll and John ! Powell (two policenion) in a disturbance ! on Garfiolvi racecourse on September 10. | Before dying M'Dowell shot Brown '. through thy lungs, and he, also is doomed.

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