NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3018, 2 October 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

: >%j!\ ; Londoh, September' 29.. Itis reported that the'Czarewitoh is betrbthed to; Princess Maud, daughter of the Prinbe of Wales. ::. ' 'A torpedo,, book-containing secrets worth thousands of pounds: has been stolen from the torpedo sohool ship Vernon at Portsmouth. • Mr Gladstone has refused to; subscribe; towards the Scotch-Home Rule agitation, because he was afraid that suoh a movement: at the present juncture would, prejudice:' the prospects of Irish Home Rule. ;-.;' • "•■ ■ - September 80. : Right Hon. John Morley, speaking at Ipawioh, said that Mr: Chamber-' iain's soheme for tho Local Government of Ireland was more •dangerous to the union of the Kingdom! than the soheme propounded by Mr Qlad* stone.. , :. ' '■•'' ''■'. : ; The prospects.: of Mr :Afbrgan'B Welsh gold mine being a permanent' payable-field are considered to'be assured, and it is believed that it will pay 80 per-Cent., on the capital invested.; ,;-'. ; v:;V: ..-.'• The London press condemns Germany for her letha'rgy shown in des> patohing the projeoted expedition to relieve Eminßey;, It is pointed out that while the promoters are haggling ovor tho details officials are being murdered in evMy direction,- ; . Pabib, September 29.The Government have!;deoided- to •submit a Bill at the opening of' the next session on like lfitlr October, ! restricting the financial powers'ofth'e Senate and depriving, that body of the right to dissolve the Chamber.' "■'■■- Viehka, September 29. ■';'< .During the artillery praoiioe td; day, whioh waa: visited by the Emperor Francis Joseph,- the "officer in charge of the guns paid no attention to the order when 'cease firing' was sounded by the bugle, and the Emperor, who had gone to inspect the target, 'narrowly 'escaped;.being, struck by a projectile.'"-. ■': ' SAUKiu,;Septomber 29. /Another Egyptian battalion has" been ordered here to reinforce those holding the forts. The rebels continue to advance' in the'trenohes, despite the-heavy fire from the guns of the H.M.S. Gannet, Cairo, September 29. A large body of Dervishes have hemmed in the British garrison at Wady-Halfa, and daageris imminent, OsmanDigna has announced his fixed determination to get possession of tho place, and the. garrison is exhausted by. attacks every night. The post is expected to-fall, unless turther reinforoements are sent..

The WMtechapel Murders. London, September 30, At 2.20 this morning the body of a woman aged about 35, was discovered murdered, and completely' disembowelled, nearthe junction of Leadenhall and .Fencburch-atreets, Aldgate, The woman's nose was'severed from her face, An hour earlier the body of another woman, with her throat cut, bad been discovered in a back yard in Borner-atrcet, but as the body was not mutilated in any other way, it is not thought that this murder is of the same class as those reported-lately In consequent of the discovery of the mutilated body in Leadenhall-street, there is great excitement in the city to-day. Up to the present no arrests havobeen made.' ;. / It is said that the mutilations on the body of tho murdered woman in the Aldgate district, eclipse the horrors in connection with similar outrages in Whitechapel,- 1 > ' The man litzgerald who was arrested, and who confessed to having committed the murder at Birtley' is < pronounced insane.