Release of Mr Gray.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4505, 2 October 1882, Page 3

Release of Mr Gray.

Anti-Jewish Riots in Hungary. Small-pox on an Orient Steamer. The New Lord Mayor of London. [Reuter's Telegrams.] LBooeivcd Oct. 2, at 12.45 a.m. | LONDON, Sept. 30. Government baa issued a notification announcing the existence of a small-pox epidemic at Capetown, and declaring the Capo to be an infected district. Mr E. D. Gray, M.P. for Carlow, who was sentenced in August last to three months' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of £5700 for publishing in the Freeman's Journal certain artioles reflecting upon the Judges and jurymen engaged in the recent agrarian murder trial, has been released from custody. The Australian cricketers sailed for New York by the steamship Alaska today. VIENNA, Sept. 30, Serious Anti-Jewish riots have occurred at Prerburg, a town in Hungary about 35 miles east of this city, and containing 46,000 inhabitants, of whom 700 are Jews. The emeute lasted a considerable time, the mob defying the authorities. Martial law was proclaimed, and is still enforced in the district. [Argus Special per United Pbess Association.] [Eeoeivod Sept. 30. at 5.7 p.m. | A young man named Bechag, the son of a Sydney medical man, was one of the passengers by the Potosi, but on arriving at Plymouth he was found to have been attacked by small-pox, and was accordingly taken ashore to the Hospital there. The 6teamer was then admitted to pratique. Henry Edmund Knight, Alderman for Cripplegate Ward, is the Lord Mayor elect of London. He was Sheriff in 1876.