NEWS BY CABLE.
ENGLISH.
, London, August 9. Later news of the Maybrick case shows that although the Mr Justice Stephen's summming up was favourable on the first portion the conclusion was decidedly adverse. The feeling is so strong in Liverpool that it is deemed advisable to afford Mr Justice Stephens police protection, He is now guarded by 150 polico. Mrs Maybrick attributes the, verdict to the Judge's strictures on her infidelity.
The petitions in favour of a reprieve are extensively signed, and include the signatures of the leading barristers and merchants of Liverpool. In the petition . forwarded to the House of Commons, the petitioners mado a strong point of the divergence of the mcdioal ovldonoe,
Mr Matthews stated in the House of Commons that the petitions would receive full consideration. He remarked upon the outrage to Mr Justice Stephen thatit was un-English to mob a Judge for doing his duty,' This remark was loudly cheered.
FOREIGN. OoNSTANTINOELK, August B.' The Porte lias issued a proclamation declaring Crete to be in a state of siege. The Powers have replied to a note from Greece, and have given an assurance that they will quell the insurrection in Crete,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3285, 17 August 1889, Page 2
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196NEWS BY CABLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3285, 17 August 1889, Page 2
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