CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 130, 3 June 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE REREDOS IN ST. PAUL'S. A GREAT SABBATARIAN REFORM. MURDER OF A BANK MANAGER. SMALLPOX IN ZANZIBAR.

BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT. LUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, Ist June. The freedom of the City of London has been conferred on Prince Georee. The Sugar Bounties Commission have Eigned their report, and the proceedings are now closed. The Court of Queen's Bench has delivered judgment in the appeal case concerning the erection of the reredos inSt Paul's Cathedral. Representations having been made in objeotion to certain features of the reredos, the Bishop of London vetoed the prosecution, but the Court has ordered the Bishop to rehear the complaint. At the inquest on the body of James Maybrick, Mr. Bateson, of Virginia, stated that he was intimate with the deceased on the voyage to England. Maybrick. he said, was in the habit of taking arsenic, and the doctor had warned him of the danger of the practice. The London County Council has decided, by a majority of 60 to 9. in favour of opening museums and art galleries to the publio on Sundays. Dublin, Ist June. News was received here to-day that the manager and assistant of the branoh of the Provincial Bank at Ballymena. in County Antrim, had been found shot dead on the public road. It was at first thought that both had been murdered and the culprit had made off, but Bubsequont information proved that the- two men having quarrelled, the assistant manager, out of revenge, shot the manager, and then committed suicide. Zanzibar, Ist June. Smallpox in a moat virulent form has broken out among the native troops under the command of Captain Wissman, and numerous deaths aro reported.