ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 98, 1 May 1883, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

(Mail Steamer at Auckland.) SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. 25 LIVES LOST. FATALITY AT SEA. [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, This Day. The Glasgow express, from Edinborough, on March 18, telescoped a train from Glasgow, at the new Central Station. Twenty-five persons were killed, and many injured. The ship Dunstaff, from Calcutta, via Dundee, was wrecked on the coast of Aberdeenshire on March 17th. Fifteen men, besides a number of women and children, were drowned. Lord E. G. Fitzmaurice denied in the House of Commons on the 19th inst that Government had ev<n proposed to appoint a British resident at the Vatican. The Fenian sympathisers find hopeful augury in the fact that Her Majesty should have fallen on St. Patrick's Day. Business in London and Paris was reported on March 12 as extremely dull, and an immense number of laborers are out of work in both cities. Victor Gully, notorious as having been charged with poisoning Dr Luncey Bravo, a barrister, of Batham, in Surrey, in April, 1876, died on April 3rd. Madame Charlenon was murdered by her husband in Paris, on April sth. The family had become notorious through the recent sensation at a seduction trial. The husband gave as a reason for the act that he was tired of seeing his wife's name in print. The powder depot at Passocoros, Italy, exploded on April sth, killing forty persons, and injuring many more. The explosion was caused by a workman carelessly throwing a match near some 2 cwt. of gunpowder. | A meeting of Irish, Scotch, and English members of Parliament was held in London on March 13, at which it was decided to form a political commitfce, with a view to shaping public opinion in regard to Irish reform*