THE FRISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3334, 14 October 1889, Page 2

THE FRISCO MAIL.

General summary with dates to September 22. ' t'he Engljdj Admirals made their report's on tfio : receijt jjjanccuyres of tlie British fleet on September ifitlv. They find that the machinery of their i best vessels ami of the torpedo boats

was constantly in'need of repair, and tho rate of speed attaiued fell far below what is considered necessary for effective work. Almost all the fast cruisers failed to steam up to their nominal speed, or to maintain the maximum stain pressure when it was reached, In winding up their criticism on the machinery trials, the Admirals say that, in view of tho failure of ordinf.ry boilers at high steam pressure, experiments as to the practical employment of tubular, or coil high pressure boilers, will be followed with increased interest. The Protestant Alliance, has resolved to strenuously oppose tho Government's proposals to establish a Catholic University in Ireland. ' Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech at Birmingham, on September 2, advised tho Government before introducing an Irish Land Bill, to submit to Parliament a resolution declaring Ireland equally with England and Scotland entitled to a denominational endowment for educational purposes. In reference to this subject Michael Davitt writes to the Pall Mall Gazette denouncing the abandonment of a singlo plauk of the Home Rule platform for a mess of Catholic university pottage. He declares that the stand taken upon tho question, together

with tho vote of the Irish members on tho Royal grants, is a sorry exhibition of Parliamentary, opportunism.

The following despatch was received from St Paul, Minnesota, undor date August 2G:—"A young Australian named Cbas. L. Watson, employed during the last three months as a common labourer in this city, lias to-day received news of tho death of his father J, B. Watson, known to fame as an Australian Bonanza King, by which ho succoods to an inheritance of tlireo million pounds sterling. Young Watson and

his family had been at loggerheads on accounts of his marriage with an actress, who died recently while filling an engagement in a San Francisco variety theatre.- The fortune consists of mining property, includiug the famous Bendigo mine at Ballarat, and several business blocks in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland." Watson is reported to have sailed for Sydney from San Francisco by the steamer on September 21st, but his name does not appear in the passenger list of the Zealandia, which left for Sydney, via Auckland, on that date, and the officers of the Zealandia, in reply to questions asked whilst jtho vessel was in Auckland Harbour, saidthey knew of no such per son being on board.

The Irish Catholic of September 14th publishes the forecast of Balfour's Bill for tho establishment of a Catholic University in Ireland. It says the Eoyal University will not bo abolished because it is required for nonconformists and others unable to avail themselves of the advantages afforded by Trinity College; but the establishment will be largely reduced. With a view to the conciliation of Ulster, Queen's Colloge, Belfast, will be maintained, and empowered to confer degreos. The annual saving from the extinction of the Queen's College at Cork aud tho Queen's College at Galway, combined with the saving by tho retrenchment at the Eoyal University, is expected partially to meet the cost of the oudowmont of tho now university.

The boat race between Soarle and O'Connor was witnessed by 30,000 persons. The New York Times' London cable, September 9th, says: O'Connor was beaten to-day as completely with seoming ease as if he had been an amateur, although in fact his time of course was the best ever made, His competitor seemed at' every stage after Dorsotville had been passed to be sculling slowly, so obvious was Searle's superiority. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that Searle had greater strength, a better stylo, and iinor mastery of the art than any of his predecessors in the championship, He too may go off as Hanlan did, but to-night there could probably be found more money hero to back him against tho world than has ever been ready to put on any other sculler, Soarle's stroke was slow and machine like, witli a dragging sweep somowhat novel in the mechanical deliberation, curiously contrasted with O'Connor's nervous pulling. He could have won by much inoro than 20soo if he had chosen, for visible ho took it oasy, and was notably fresh at tho finish, whereas O'Connor was dead beat before tho race was nearly finished.

Jack the Ripper. A despatch from London, September 10th, Bays that Jack the Hipper is making good his threats. Shortly after live o'clock a.m. tlio police found the body of a public woman under the railway arch of Cablestreet, in the Whiteckapol district, Tlio remains showed the usual fiendish work of Jack the Eippcr. Iho hoad and arms had beon cut off and carried away, tho stomach ripped open, ami the intestines were lying on the ground, The usual police precautions were taken, but without discovery. The region is so oarefully guarded that policemen pass the spot every fifteen minutes. Tho physicians who examined the body state that tho murder and mutilation must havo occupied nearly an hour. It is surmised that the murderer carried off the head and arms in a bag. The crime was committed 200 yds from the spot in Beruors-lano where Elizabeth Stribe was similarly murdered on September 20th, 1888. There is no clue to tho murderer.

Another account says the body of the present victim was found at Backchurch lane, the extrome south end of Whitechapol. The arms had been skilfully amputated, and tho body completely disembowled. No blood was 'found either on the ground or on the body, which shows that the crime ; was committed at some other place and the body afterward carried whero found. Thrco sailors sleeping under an arch close by were arrested, but were discharged, as there was no evidence against them. The woman was a street walker about 30 years of age, and evidently a hard drinker. Her name was gaid to be Lydia Hart.

A story was sot afloat that'the| dismembered corpse was not Jack the Kipper's work, but that some medical students had conveyed it to the place where it was discovered from a surgical amphitheatre in the neighborhood as a ghastly joke. This however, did not obtain credence, A letter signed'! Jack the Kipper" was received by a local news agency in Jjondon on September 17th, threatening another Whitcchapel murder in about a week from that date. Lawson Taifc, the eminent gynecologist, in an interview on the 20th September, said he was of opinion that the Whitechapel and Battersea murders were committed by some criminal, \j'hq js probably a lunatic employed iu soino siauglitohouse, and subject to fits ol epileptic furore,