CABLE NEWS.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 209, 5 December 1896, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

•+• London, Decern' er 3.—Tiie Daily New* states that the Porte hasdishanded eight battalions and reduced the pay of the military 25 per v 'lit. Pr Jameson was release I from IT«»I----loway prison yesterday and driven to a private Sanatorium. Sydney, December 3.—The interest in the Glenbrook mystery is becoming more acute since Butler's movements have been placed beyond doubt. Yesterday it readied a climax when the news was wired through announcing tho discovery of the body of young Preston buried two feet under ground, about U miles from Linden. A police officer will probably leave bv the Miowera on the 12th in*t. to intercept Butler. Tho police tnerolv uncovered the back of tho Lend of Preston Iving face downwnrds. Tlio bodv wi 1 not bo completely exhumed until the coroner arrives. Later Tho body of Preston ws found in a lonely gully close to the mouth of a cave. But little care seems to iiave been taken in burying it. The grm-e wns arranged in such a wav that the water from the overhanging rocks would drop into it and thus cmi«p rapid deenv. The supposed tracks of Butlor and We'ler linve been picked up and further discoveries are expected to-day. A suggestion lias been mndo to despatch a steamer from one of the southern ports in New Zealand to intercept the sailing vessel Swan Hilda. Pkrtu. December 4.—An Afghan camel-driver rnn amok at "Fremaiitle to-day and split open the he->d. of a man named Griffiths with nn axe killing him instantly. He -wounded two othf-r men, but wn« at length overpowered and arrested.