NEWS BY CABLE.
ENGLISH. London, September 20. It is reported that a woman working in one of the Whitechapol slaughter-houses, disguised as a man, is supposed to be Jack the Ripper. Tho total amount of donations to the strike fund amounted to £40,000, of which £24,000 came from Australia. Lard Brassey. has been' appointed to arbitrate between tho lightermen and masters. The former,it will be,remembered, stood out for six shillings а, day. The new screw gunboats, Lapwing, б,805 tons,and Ringdove, 0,805 tons, are being placed in commission for tho Australian naval station. AMERICAN. Chicago, Sept 20. C'uly iour jurors in the Cronnin case have at present passed unchallenged by either sido. Washington, September 20. . J. L. Sullivan, the pugilist, who was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for fighting Kilraiil, has appealed to Congress. New Yonn, September 20. By the foundering of a yacht on Lake Erie nine persons were drowned.
Australian.
Sydney, Sept. 21. The Telegraph this morning states that a man implicated in the murder of Dr Cronjn was a- passengerfrora San Francisco by. the Mariposo, ~- which arrived here on Wednesday night. The police, it appears,, received a cablegram from }hq American police- authorities, ordering them to wafoh the passengers, aud offering a reward of 825,Q0Q for the arrest of the suspected person, Upon tho arrival of the steamer the detectives went on board to make a search, and upon their approach the suspected individual locked his cabin door and declined to come out when ordered to do so. lie threatened to shoot anyone breaking in, and remained in a state of siege till Thursday, when he succeeded in eluding the vigilance qf tlip olljcers landscaped. ■ I Melrourne, £|ept. 21.
, A clerk in forge's papery .establishment, where the disastrous fire broke out on the evening of the 18th September, has confessed that he accidentally set fire to the place
by dropping a match, and that bo was unable to extinguish the fire. The Antartic Committee have received an offer from a well-known Norwegian whaler' to send two
steamers to the Antartic regions on an exploration cruise for a subsidy of six thousand ponudseach,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3316, 23 September 1889, Page 2
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354NEWS BY CABLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3316, 23 September 1889, Page 2
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