SHOCKING CALAMITY AT SEA.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 155, 28 June 1892, Page 2

SHOCKING CALAMITY AT SEA.

MR GLADSTONE'S INJURY. LORD CHURCHILL AND HOME RULE. RIOTS IN CORK. OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. London, June 27. It is feared that the jsteainer Vega, bound from Lisbon to New York, has been lnsfc by a collision in the Atlantic with all hands. She had 500 passengers. The mjurr to Mr Gladstone's eye is slight, and the patient doing well. He h'ipes to bo able to keep his Scottish engagements. Mr Glad.-tone is confined to his house, and is not so well as at first. Referring to the outrage at Chester, Mr Gladstone declares he never saw a woman throw with such spite and energy. The press unitedly deplore the outrage. Various reasons are assigned for it, and some say she threw it for luck. The. police hope to effect the arrest of the woman. Lord Randolph Churchill's manifesto vigorously denounces the insanity of Home Rule, which a Himalayan Range of obstacles forbid. Serious rioting is reported from Cork. Several houses were wrecked and many persons injured. Messrs W. O'Brien and M. Healey were attacked with stones, but escaped injury. Batgor was fourth in the quarter-mile hurdle handicap at Crewe yesterday. Messrs Swan and Smith, members of the English mission to Morocco, hoisted the British flag at the Consulate in Fez. despite the Sultan's prohibition. They formed an armed cordon round the flagstaff, m the face of an enraged mob, and the Sultan, fearing that bloodshed would ensue, finally gave his consent. Mr Balfo"ur has issued a manifesto in which ho succinctly reiterates the position with regard to Ireland from the Conservative point of yievr, aud replies to Mr Gladstone's Midlothian manifesto. The Irish- American Federation is aprailing to the members foi £30,000 to ir.eot the election exponse3 of the McCarthy party. Mr Stead states in the Kcview of liiTcws that the Pope will shortly issue an Encyclical asserting that the aiscovery •if America was divinely inspired, as an argument for the canonization of Columbus. St. FKTERiBPBG, Juno 27. Cholera has broken out in Baku and Tillis, in Asiatic Russia, and great mortality is reported. Paris. June 27, Two Anarchists now in custody have confessed to having taken part in the dynamite outrage on M. Very's restaurant. Their statement implicates two others who fled to London, and the French Government are applying for their extradition. Proposals are being put forward, both in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, to inflict penalties for duelling. This course has been taken in consequence of the anti-Semitic quarrels in the Army. Washington, June 26. A temporary Cabinet is being formed by the insurgents in Venezuela. Paul will probably be reinstated as President. It is reported from Bio de Janeiro that the Federal troops have defeated the Matto Grosso rebels with the loss of a thousand killed.