NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 123, 6 September 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

CHOLERA IN ENGLAND. London, September 3. A fatal case of Asiatic cholera has occurred at Grimsby. The victim was a man employed in the demolition of an old cholera hospital ship. PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR. St. Petersburg, September 4. A widespread plot against the Czar has been discovered at Moscow. The leaders have been arrested, and many bombs and arms have been seized. A HORRIBLE FIND. Sydney, September 8. A case, the external appearance of which indicated that it contained ordinary merchandise, was found near the water frontage at Woolloomooloo, emitting a strong smell of carbolic acid and decomposing animal matter. The police opened it, and found the body of a young woman. The abdomen had been cut open and sewn up again, apparently by a practised hand. The Government Pathologist states that the woman was evidently delivered of a child by an operation made on rare occasions, when natural accouchement is impossible. She had apparently been dead between 20 and 80 hours. The body had been jammed into the box, and firmly fixed by battens. The theory is advanced that someone skilled in anatomy, without being a regularly qualified surgeon, did the deed; that the woman died, and the operator, being frightened, took this means to get rid of the body. The intention was evidently to throw the box into the water, but high gates barred the way, and the box was left in aa unfrequented part of the street. A woman in the neighborhood saw a buggy drive up, and a box taken out, apparently by several men, who then drove off. Later. Thos. Merelith Sheridan, a chemist, principal of the British Medical Institute, aud another man named Edward Thomas have been arrested at the Institute rooms in connection with the mystery. Detectives have discovered that the box was purchased at a city warehouse on Saturday morning, and have traced it to Sheridan’s rooms, where, it is alleged, a number of instruments have been seized stained with blood, and giving other indications that they had been used in the performance of an operation. The signs of the recent presence of a decaying body were also found. The body of the victim has been identified as that of Jessie Nicholls, aged 23, the unmarried daughter of a farmer residing at Mulgrove, near Windsor. At the inquest, the mother gave evidence that the daughter left her home on Tuesday morning with the alleged intention of posting a letter, and never returned, and her last movements were unknown. Sydney, September 4. Sheridan, who has been arrested in conueciiou with the discovery of the mutilated body of the girl Jessie Nicholls, at Woolloomoolloo, packed in a box, has already served a long sentence for an offeuce of a similar nature. This was about ten years ago, when he was convicted at the

Darlinghurst Court on a charge of being connected with an illegal operation, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. He has not been out of goal very long, and has occupied for a few mouths only the place in Elizabeth Street known as the British Medical Institute. Judging by the instruments, drugs and documents found in the place an illegal medical business of an extensive nature has been conducted there. MEAT AND PRODUCE EXPORT. Melbourne, September 4. The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon J. W. Taverner, has communicated with the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies, with the view of obtaining their opinions as to the formation of a trust for the development of the meat and produce export trade. The proposal is to empower the trust to levy a tax of 2s per hundred sheep and per score of cattle for the purpose of erecting freezing works in Melbourne and other large centres, the money to be raised by the Government on guaranteed debentures and repaid out of the proceeds of the tax. The majority of the societies are opposed to the scheme for various reasons, and others are doubtful of its feasibility. London, September 3. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile B debentures have fallen 4J, and are now quoted at 25J. A debentures were quoted at 73L Mr Chamberlain said it would require an Act of Parliament to enable trust funds to be invested in colonial stocks. He had received requests from the colonies in favor of the proposal.