BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume C, Issue 11725, 1 November 1898, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association— By Electric T elegraph—Copyright. DOCKS AT GIBRALTAR. LONDON, Oct. 30. The British Government has completed arrangements for the construction of docks at Gibraltar, at a cost of three millions sterling. LORD KITCHENER. LONDON, Oct. 31. Lord Kitabener is on a visit to the Queen at Balmoral. RITUALISM. Lord- Salisbury, replying to an address from the Conservative; Union, sympathised deeply with the protest .against Ritualism. He considered that anyone not prepared to abide by the prayer-book ought not to hold office in the church. CHRISTCHURCH ALE. At the Brewers’ Exhibition, samples of Christchurch ale were exhibited. A FRENCH JACK THE RIPPER. PARIS, Oct. 30. Vacker, the French murderer who was arrested at Lyons last year, when he confessed to killing eight women under circumstances similar to those employed by the infamous Jack the Ripper in London, has been sentenced'to death at Bourgeubresse, in the Department of Ain, for murdering peasants. Yacher shammed madness, and alleged that his blood was vitiated by a hydrophobia nostrum invented by his parents. THE KHYBER PASS. BOMBAY,"Oct. 31. The Afridis have accepted the terms with regard to the occupancy of the Khy’ber Pass.