COLONISTS AT HOME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1298, 26 July 1886, Page 2

COLONISTS AT HOME.

Naval Review.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.] London, July 23

A party of guests numbering over Soo ladies and gentlemen started today for Portsmouth to attend the Naval manoeuvres, organised in honor of the colonist?. T > , t-i-ial trains

were despatched, and when the]second had reached the dock yard it ran off the rails. Three carriages were overturned, and several passengers injured, including Sir William Dobson, Chief Justice of Tasmania, who was somewhat severely bruised. No other colonials were injured by the accident. London, July 24.

Later accounts modify those previously received regarding the railway accident at Portsmouth. It is now shown that it was not a train that was derailed, but a truck conveying visitors round the dockyard. This overturned and caused injury to the occupants. A large party of Colonial guests were entertained to-day at Portsmouth on board the troopships Euphrates and Orontes. The Reserve Squadron subsequently formed an extended line, and the Queen, in the Royal yacht, passed by, her Majesty being loudly cheered. The day’s proceedings terminated with an attack by a torpedo vessel on the turrent-ship Colossus and a grand sub marine explosion,

London, July 25.

Among those injured by the truck accident at Plymouth dockyard is Captain Blackshaw, of New South Wales and of the competitions at the Wimbleton meeting who received rather severe contusions to the head.