NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3135, 21 February 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, February 18, 1 It would Beem .tlifiti llio tmtrdor epidemio which prevailed m the latter part of the year in tho neighborhood of Wliitechapel, and was i attributed to "Jack the Ripper," has i broken out in the West - Indies and vicinity. The last victim in Whitechapel was killed in November last; and in the following month, four negress prostitutes wo killed in Jamaica; Attached to the .body of the fourth victim was a paper signed, ''Jackthe.Kipper." The murderer then appears to have proceeded; to Nicaragua, where during, the month of January ; six similar atrocities -were committed.

Mr I'. I. Bayard, United States Secretary of State, advocates proclaiming the neutrality of the Suezand Panama Canals and Samoa.

Mr Henry George will shortly visit Australia.

MrT. M. Healy, S.P.J who was engaged for the defence of Mi W. O'Brien, charged ,with inching was ejectodfrom the Court-at Tralee for insulting Colonel Turner,, whom-., he called a, "sneak."- The trial baa been adjourned in consequence.,' February 19,

lord Carnarvon, writing to-. ; the Time?, complains of the inadequacy of the Artillery, and the Imperial coaling stations at home and 'abroad. He states that the colony of Victoria has achieving more in the direction of securing modern guns and the newest implements of war than England. . ' The Hague, February 19, King William has suffered another relapse. Washington, February 18.

Congress has passed the Bill providing for a refund of the war taxes, by which 2(1,000,000 dollars of surplus will be divided amongst the States,

Hong Kong, February 18, A new Chinese Resident has been appointed -to Thibet.,. New 1!ork, February 18. Mrs Friend, the promoter of Friend's Electrio Sugar Company, has been arrested in llichigan. The company, upon investigation in January kst, proved to be mythical, and Mrs Friend disappeared from the city upon detection of the fraud.