LATE MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 303, 25 May 1889, Page 3

LATE MAIL NEWS.

lead fetfa iABFAMT. MMMcaOT BOSCT ' A prize fight at Seattle, America, between twp well-known; pugilists,; Scott /and,Britton, has had a sensational and- 'disastrous termination"■Britton claimed the fight' on a foul, but the referee disallowed the,-claim., gicensed Britton's supporters and ■s, who broke into the ring, and 'k desperate contest With W s of Scott-, , Thp fight was,, long iand fiefeb, the' edmbatanti soon 'abandoning fiste fOT firearms. One of the seconds was fatally wounded by a Bshot, and several other were’ ‘bf bullets, ce being informed of what was going made many arresU.’ :, - 83 >WOZK f ! „ ,A CIHME. ■ « l - t\ A truly horrible crime has been perpetrated at Szfll, Hungary. , ' , ’A“ Lnall wine ' grower found liis stock diminishing, and hid himself in : the cellar.to discover the thieves.; He gaff six tramps enter the premises, and, kfter copious libations, they prepared to take the eask away with them. At fhis juncture hecama.outpf his hiding place and attempted to remonstrate With tjiepq./ They seized Hm,-however, but him under the wine press, and Crushed him to death.’ "A man who happened to look in and see what was goingbn Was forced by the sirwretdifei. to drink fhb victim’s'blood; 'which wqs ' presented x t? Kim bs wine. Eventually $e managed io sbp out,, and, bolting : the cellar door, ran off for assistance to the neighboring village. The authors qf ;tijs.d>cinous crime were captured id a" state dr helpless ihtoxi-Catiom-n iTi'ii'• JI I ii ( ::’:’i r J;.; .iiri<

, M cnDEUANDMUTir, A«ION. A murden only equalled in ferocity 4ytke Bradford tragedy was perpetrated 1 on the moor in the,outskirts of Hamburg ofi'SundayieVentag; "April 7, the victim being a ybulfi of 10 years, tKs ftead tindlirtrW were torn-from tjie trunk, which-was disembowelled. The murderer, a man of 30, was sur-priaeiiby-several;pwons, bqb Aawg • a start, and wearing shoes, he got away for tne tnfie. As an Accurate ad'gbtiVtioii bf hik'dppe&tdhoe had been circulated, and mounted hussars are securing the fibig’ibrtrbtfdd, ft is hardlv likely that he can escape. It-As strongly suspected ■ that '‘the 1 monster is the itiati Who recently Unfewatt* MB REES'S SCHEME. I The tbhdbiT corresponded of >ihe Auckland Stay Rees’s Colonisation Company is, I fear, comiletely ‘‘ Up trftoe. I called aA the ffices of the Company, in Victoria f mind. At first he would give no formation whatever, but I softened &e whole story. Throughout his it Appears Mr Rees bas' nefer lieally achieved any practical success. All sorts; and cquditionaqf mqn, from die Marquis of Lome downwards listened Tfespbetf u«rto ! the NeW Zeafiever been able to “ enthuse people sufficiently to induce them to put their duiring a moderate/amOMPt of money, itis possible (moreparticularly at first) .He might have got it, but his proposals were »o vast, so vague;, .and ,%o. qjpgqi., sive they scarfed; practical men. A few weeksagbiW: W>F fc , b - jubilantly conudept (said Mr Cracknell) that he would be able to persiaade: the' Canny’ Scotch societies to invest at least £25,000 in Js company.-GAWellrfhei/hHs foiled. These societies,” Mr Rees writes to r Cracknell, “ received me most hospitqhfe.jrod:.BStafeet;‘P.gsXf.r®i?4 AU the speakers expressed themselves Very much interestedritt my proposals, if fear though it,will b<? impossible to persuade them to take any practical step;!’ The <failure ' of;thia faun.Mr, Cracknell seamed to regard as giving t|ie final coup de grace to W. L. Rees s projects.

I AR .ptOGGTNd A : 'WOMAN. ] From the Transvaal Advertiser we learn .(saya;:tha.'London.:New») that Woman flogging , in- the- ,Transvaal .is still allowed by law. It appears that recently a woriian was sentenced to be the tenth lash the wfeman faihted.' , A llttle.water thrownM her face revived her, and the remaining five lasheawere diven aft^ I 'which :i shA again f linted. This punishment was inflicted I ecause the woman . ue?d obscene language in the public streets. If Bi<m foAteicfo werdto.bfe imposed fta London for jly of executioners' arid gaolers to c arty out the sentences would have to He largely increased.