GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4981, 21 March 1895, Page 2

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

i 1 ' (Received March 21,1 a.m.) s Loxdox, March 20. An official bulletin states that Lord Rosebery is suffering considers ably from the effects of insomnia, 1 and, despite the change of air, the ' ailment is seriously retarding his '■ recovery, J The death roll of the influenza epidemic in London during the past j week numbers upwards of 350 per--0 sons. 1 The Raspberry pulp sent from Melbourne by the OrnUiz sold at £2B j per ton. I Biuisms, March 19. i, The Belgian Court has sentenced Baron Sternberg, the Anarchist I leader, to imprisonment for life for s stealing explosives, t Tokio, March 19, f The Premier of Japan gave Li ° Hung Chang a- very cordial reception jj on bis arrival. I ( (Received March 21,10.30 a.m.) 3 Loxeo.v, March 20. Forty-two of the Gulf of Bothnia's cattle were dead before reaching 3 Port Said. J j Owing to Mr Campbell-Banner-t man declining the Speakership, the Opposition will nominate Sir Mat- , thew White Ridley, It is expected j that the Government will run Mr i W. C. Gully, Q.C., member for Car--1 lisle, | Commercial correspondence in ' The Times on the United States, reports that trade ismondiDgaml con- ; fidenco increasing, (Received March 21,10,50 a.m.) ' Calcutta, March 21. 1 The rulerof Cashmere is preparing three Brigades to expel Umra Khan from Chitral. Robertson, the British agent, is shut up with a small guard in a Chitral fort, The Indian Government lias issued a proclama, tion, stating that the expedition i 8 not hostile to the people of Chitral, but implies that the country will be permanently occupied and Umra punished in order to preveut future aggressions. New York, March 20. A Spanish warship has sunk an American sloop, running arms into Cuba. Lima, March 20. Three days' fighting have taken place between the insurgent and Government troops in the streets of Lima. Madrid, March 20, Several editors of the Barcelona papers have been arrested, and will be tried by court martial, Many duels are impending at Madrid between the journalists and army 1 officers, Thirty bodies bave been recovered • from the wreck of the Reina Regente, ' Yesterday a sensational telegram was received telling us that the decomposed J body of a woman named Young had been ' discoveredinahouscmSoutliMelbourno £ and that the circumstances pointed to ] murder. Now comes a further telegram: 1 It mw Colo's body that was found in , the house in South Melbourne, aud not „ the body of the woman Young. The i police arc satisfied it is not a .case of inurdci'. The jiost-motfcm examination c njiowod that the' head had beon : gnairtd toy fats." This is certninly a'very ' nice little muddle oil the part of'some- g body/' ! ' ! ; >•' |