NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3282, 14 August 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

■ ENGLISH. London, August G. It is generally assumed that the escape of the Canadian sealing schooner Black Diamond was connived by the United States authorities, the seizure having been condemned as a violation of international rights and the fisheries treaty,

A number of excited Irishmen mobbed a train conveying Burke, who baa been extradioted from Winnipeg, in Canada, to Chicargo for trial on a charge of murdering Dr Cronin.

London, August G,

Mrs Annie Besant, the accomplished literary colleagtio of Mr Charles Bradlaugh, M.P., has joined the Theosophical Society, renouncing her past atheism, so far as to adopt a subtle form of Pantheism. This action is likely to lead to a split in the Bradlaugh Materialistic camp, MRS. MAY BRICK SENTENCED TO DEATH. Mrs Maybrick, charged with poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, cottonbroker, of Liverpool, has been found guilty of murder, though expert evidence went to prove that death did not ensue from poisoning.

The evidence adduced showed that she had been a constat purchaser of fly papers, and the inference was that, knowing these contained arsenic, she scraped off the coating and gave, it to her husband in his food and medicine. Evidence also showed that she had a parcel of arsonic in her possession, and that sho had been remonstrated with for tampering with her husband's medicine bottle by Mr Michael Mavbrick, a brother of the deceased.

The verdict of the jury caused some sensation and surprise in the Court, and there was some slight hissing, The prisoner when called upon to make auy statement she wished before sentence was passed, admitted improper familiarities wjth A, Brierley, but averred most strenuously that she was innocent of the murder of her husband,- She wassentenced to death, but it is expected that she will bp reprieved.. Sir Charles Russell's fee for defending the accused was £llOO. The 'limes expresses grave doubts as to the guilt of the condemned womau, and endeavors are being made to stay her execution, Sir James Ktz-James Stephens, the Judge who sentenced the prisoner to death, was hooted as he left the Court, and thousands followed the prison van conveying the prisoner to the condemned cell, AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, August 7. William Thompson, convicted of embezzling and fopging to the amount of LIG2S in the Colonial Bank at Cari'uglen, of whieh'he was' manager, was sentenced to-day to five yoap' hard labour, yifj! terms of solitary confinement.