The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-10-13 00:00:00

A SINGULAR ARREST FOR MURDER,

Much sensation was caused the other day by the
arrest at Berre, in the South of France, of an Italian
who had long resided in that village, and who was
much respected for his charitableness and blameless
mode of life. The arrest was made on the charge of
murder, and from what had since been made known by
the polies the facts of the case would appear to be as
follows :—Twenty•three years ago this Italian killed
his wife in a fit of passion or jealousy, and fled the
country. He was sentenced to penal servitude for life
in contumackon, but had since found employment in
France, and bad amassed a considerable fortune, He
lived unsuspected at Berre, and had become very
popular. One of his nephews, however, happened to
discover his whereabouts, and being in want of money
came to Berre, and threatened to denounce his uncle
unless the latter paid him a large sum. Upon his
uncle refusing to comply with his demand, he went to
the gendarmerie and disclosed the facts of the case.
There was no choice but to arrest the uncle, though in
France after a lapse of twenty years a sentence pro-
nounced in coniumaciam becomes null and void, and no
fresh prosecution canbe instituted. Butja. Joy. the
limit is thirty years; and as the Italian Government
has applied for the man's extradition, ;the only hope,
of his escaping is the possible clemency of E:ing
Humbert.
LEGISLATION IN NEW SOUTH .WAIJES
A Re'uter's telegram, !dated (Sydney, October 90
says

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j Parliament was opened to•day by the Governor,
who, in his speech on the occasion, announced the
introduction of a Bill regulating the sale and occu-
pation of public lands. Among other important;
measures Were Bills deating.yit#., the 4w,. of 1)-kok
r,
contempt. of court, local goi,ernmiiitfilie rignlatitYt
of the civil service, and the amendment 'at ih
bankruptcy laws. His Earcellency stated that in
response to the invitation issued representatives of
all the Australasian colonies had agreed that a con-
ference should assemble in Sydney at the end of
November to consider the great question of fedration
and annexation. • Rantety aoiiti .i'i4i9.
Oil
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rapid progress in ..the 'itetartip4A - . een hundred .
- were already open for tra i. • t.*tAllttriore Were
course of donstruction in :Tuff ' - Itiee4rorik The
of the large railvaniexAe istOnelittO.thp interkk,,,
4ets to &Vele*, the rtanaircie, of the:030144, AlargA;
'.number of trial autveystifhtfheeteettierid to be iiiide
~, with a view taitheconatrpOprioNight4ailtriar Which
would act-lia faders to the „lbw --:,
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. TB EMIGRATION RETURNS. ,
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- The monthly emigration Return, of the Board of
Trade shows that during September, 30,750 persons of
British origin, against 27,77 In In the Corresponding
,month of 1.882, lift the United Kingdom for Places'
Hout of Europe. Of these, 20,064 were English, 7,336
, Irish, and 3,35q13c0tch.
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To the United States there proceeded 19,107, to
British North America 3,077, to Australasia 7,293, and
to all ther places 1,273. In the same time 37,246
foreigners,, against 34;957 in the corresponding month
last year, left British ports. , '- '

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This makes a total for the nine months ended Sep-
tember of 146,713 English emigrants, 95,906 Irish emi-
grants, and 26,141 Scotch emigrants, an increase in
each case except the last•named.

The total number has been 336,149, against 353,426
for the first nine months last year.