CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3290, 1 December 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

( UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

NEW YORK, NoTember 80.

Fifteen hundred strikers at Homestead, whose places have been filled fay nonunionists, are suffering great privations. LONDON, November 80.

The eleotion for the Hexham Mat (Northumberland) haa been declared Trod, owing to corrnpt practices.

Mr. Fallan has been unseated for Booth ifeath, on the gronnda of corrupt pr»oticef f and a fresh election will take plae*.

Tbe officers of H.M.S. Howe have been acquitted of blame in the groondiog. of tbe vessel.

Tbe wool sales are firm, and oombing sorts are selling at high prices.

Dr. Baroado has been fined £25 for contempt of Court in publishing an article commenting on a case which is pending* Tbe case bas reference to alleged neglect on tbe part of tbe dootor to dispose of the custody of a boy on a Canadian farm.

MELBOURNE, November 80.

Two arms which have been out off below the elbow have been found in one of the publio Parks wrapped in newspapers. They evidently belong to the same body from which tbe legs recently found were removed. They present the appearanoe of having been unscientifically hacked off and are considerably wounded, giving tbe impression that a weapon of some kind had been foroibly torn from them. The state of the hands show signs that the viotim belonged to the laboring class. The police are still without a clue.