NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2737, 13 November 1894, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

rtii „ - ''°ld in Dublin on Ihe procession .. . . . October 7th in commemoration I Cli ti Oh'tries Stewart Parnell was the on record. In the Hue were political societies from all parts of the country, every county in Ireland being represented. Timothy Harrington, M.P , who organised the procession, Parnell’s brother and sister, John and William Redmond, and many other Parnellites were among tho-e present. At Glassnovin cemetery the paraders deposited hundreds of beautiful wreaths on Parnell’s grave. A feature of the day was thousands of women who wore ivy leaves on their br-asts or in their hair. Since the coming into operation of the new American tariff there has been an increase of population, an enhancement of land values and prosperity, and since wool has been placed on the free list an advance both in America and Europe of from 7i to 10 per cant. Preparations are being made to handle Australian and Sonth American wool received direct from the growers. The idea is to bring foreign and home grown wool into contact, not into competition. The free list will not affect domestic wool, as the grades received are higher, but manufacturers will have an opportunity of making another grade of goods.

A terrible double tragedy of “ Jack the Ripper” order was reported from Amraa, Austria, uot far from Innsbruck, on September 24. On Friday, 21st, a young and pretty waitress, of Amras, went away from her employer’s residence to witness a religious process! n. While on her return home the girl was murdered, and the only clue to the assassin is a knife picked up near the body Near the spot where the waitress was killed the body of another woman, naked and slashed with a knife, was found on the 24th, In addition, another woman belonging to the same neighborhood is missing. A strong detachment of gendarmes and two companies of riflemen are scouring the country around Amras, but all efforts to arrest the murderer have been unsuccessful. A London despatch of September 23 says ; “Mr d’Orsey Moban, the American Consular Agent, has just returned from the Congo, and tells the story of the murder of Emin Pasha, as learned by him in an interview with one of the murderers before the latter’s execution. Emin had addressed a request to Kibengo, Sultan of Kirnudu, for permission to pass through the territory. The request was granted, but the Sultan sent orders to one of his vassals to assassinate the explorer. The said emissaries found Emin in his tent, and notified him that they had orders to kill him. He warned them his death would be terribly avenged by his white brothers. Heedless of bis protestations the four murderers laid violent hands on him. One held his head, another his arms, a third his feet, while a fourth dealt the fatal blow. Emin’s men, dispersed in the surrounding hills, were unaware of his murder. Queen Victoria has personally interested herself to stop the proposed alliance between Miss Anna Gould (the heiress of millions, and daughter of the late J. Gould, of New York) and Prince Francis Battenburg, the penniless scion of the Battenburg children, by a morganatic marriage, to one of whom H.M. Princess Beatrice, the Queen’s daughter, is married. The prospect, however, of giving to her daughter a plebian sister-in-law has aroused her Majesty to take prompt action, and Prince Francis has been withdrawn from Paris, but uot until he had made a condition that a suitable marriage should be arranged for him elsewhere. Meanwhile there have been three highly-born aspirants for the hand of Miss Gould, but she favors none of them. She has expressed the belief that she is sought for her money, and has declared her intention not to marry unless convinced to the contrary. It is probable that both the young lady and her brother Howard will sail from Loudon for New York on October 20th, and leave the prince lamenting.