NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3017, 1 October 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, September 27. The investigation of the White-, ohapel murdci'f) still continues, und it has been ascertained that ati American offeied the curator of a London hospital the sum of £2O for each specimen of the.uterus he could prooure for him. Tho apphcaut stated that his object in endeavoring to secure these specimens was in • order to issue an uctual specimen with each copy of a new: medical work to be. published shortly, and he desired that thej should be packed in glycerine to preserve. them. The curator refused to entertain the proposal,' Acting on the information of the coroner, the police arrested a man named Fitzgerald on a charge of murder, and lie has confessed to having committed tho latest crime. , September -27. The Orient Steamship Company have increased the freight on goods to the colony 20s per ton, thus making the rate 803 per ton. v' Sir John Lawes, the agricultural expert, considers it unlikely that wheat will , advance in price to any large extent. v September 28. The following are the latest frozen meat quotationsNewSouth Wales meat 4|d, New Zealand 6jjd. - Recent failures in the Yorkshire woollen trade have weakened tho demand for wool except for choice sorts, the .rates for which remain steady. , : 7 Two ; hundred" thousand English, Welsh, and- Scottish ■ coalminers are demanding'.tcn per cent advance on wages at present paid to them, : - Sydney, September 28. A sum of £5400 was distributed' to-day to the miners on strike,' fhej rate being il per head. . | • Suakim, September 26. The situation here is becoming very i grave, and it will require a largo force | to dislodge the rebels, who have i thrown up earthworks withiu 500 yds! of our forts. ;■ J Berlin, September 27. Prince Bismarck has determined to prosecute the publisbersof the extracts from the 'Emperor Frederick's diaiy, on the charge of revealing State secrets. . It is reported in the city that it has been decided that ;■(fount Herbert Bismarck will in future direct the foreign policy of Germany.. Prince Bismarck declares that the Emperor Frederick was not permitted to take pirt in tho political discussions in 1870,- as his father feared be wis indiscreet and would make disclosures to the English Court. He cites instances, of inaccurate entries in the Emperor Frederick's diary, extracts from which, Prince Bismarek asserts, were published in the interests of a revolution.