ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL 'GOSSIP.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8064, 13 December 1892, Page 2

ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL 'GOSSIP.

From our English and American news> paper files receivod by the San Francisco mail «o extract the following items of uowb : — '

The body of a young woman, cut into 12 pieces, was discovered Ootober 30, in an empty house, in tho Buo Bozzaris, near Pore iles Buttes, Chaumont. ' Tho head was out off add could not be found. Two men ■were arrested. The murder was evidently tho work of a practised hand, tho dissection of'lho body being skilfully performed, a fact which gives colour to the belief that the work was done by a surgeon or a butcher. Bloodstains found 300 yards distant, in a waste ires, of ground, form the only real clue yet obtained. ' At a meeting of the North of England Liberal Association, November 3, a significant demonstration of discontent at Gladstone'* 1 Home Rule policj was made. Lord Northfifld, who presided, announced that he resigned tho presidency of the Association, saying that the recent Conservative victories in the by-elections were due to tho objections many Liberals satortaiu for Homo Rule. Hon. Charles Tufton said he vrould not contest v teat against tho couduct

of the Liberal leaders. The meeting dtoided to send a strong protest to the National Liberal Federation.

A sensation was created io. Vienna, on October 18, by the disoovery that there hat existed for » long time, in Austrian Galioia, a regularly organised band of kidnappers, who have it their business to supply the demands ot wealthy Turks in Constantinople witu white a'aves. The gang wet composed of men add women who bare made lares sums of money through its traffic in young girls. If they oould not persuade the girls to accompany them by : glowing descriptions of floe clothes, lives of leisure and plentj of monsy, they wonld kidnap them. How nmny girls feli iuto the trap will never be known, bub the number is certainly large, for, since the disoovarr . of operations, sixty victims have been released. The stories told by some of the girls of their treatment are horrible enongh to be almott inoredible. Twenty-seven member* of the gang have been arrested, and are awaiting trial.