British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 April 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign.

[electhic telegraph, copyright.'] L l'Eli l'itiiSli ASSOCIATION, i (Received This Day 9 a.m.) AN EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT. Sydney, This Day. An alarming and extraordinary accident happened to the mail train near Goulburn. A connecting rod on the engine broke and fell on the line. The first carriage missed it, but tho second struck it ami was derailed. The driver was unaware of the trouble and the derailed carriage was dragged at tho rate of forty miles an hour for two miles to Jqppa Junction, where the couplings broke. The front wheels of the second carriage in some marvellous manner here took the up line and the back wheels the down line and the carriage ran a distance of sixty yards broadside on before it stopped on tho middle of a bridge over a creek. The remainder of the train consisting of six

enrriages and a brake van con-

tain ing many passengers struck the catch points and moved down the incline towards the dead end. A terrific . smash appeared imminent when something caused the couplings between the front and rear carriages to bre-ak thus operating the Wosfinghouse brake. The carriage came to a sudden standstill and nobody was hurt. ANOTHER ACCrDENT. An accident occurred at the Central Railway station. Empty carriages were shunted into a dead end and two smashed to matchwood. The platform sustained damage- to value of £1000. AND ANOTHER, Brisbane, This Day. A train smash took place on the Gaj'ndah line. Several cattle trucks left the line and two fell over a bridge into a creek. All the cattle were killed, and serious damage was done to the line, the bridge and rolling stock. (Received This Day 9.30 a.m.) A TERCENTARY. London, April 19. The Speaker and many members of the House of Commons attended a special service in St. Margaret's, Westminster, to-day, to celebrate the Tercentenary of St. Margaret's connection with the House of Commons. ' DEPORTED LABOUR LEADERS. Lorol Willoughby Do Broke presided at Bournemouth to welcome two South African deported Labour leaders as a protest against any British subject being deported without trial. Lorcl Hugh Cecil telegraphed that h e was unable to attend, but disapproved of the illegal anl tyrannical deportations. POSTPONED. Captain SUiekhouse, the Antarctic explorer, has postponed his departure till November, und possibly till 1915. EPIDEMIC; OF FIRES. London, April 19. The epidemic of fires continues. Over twenty have occurred in two days, including timber yards at Wednesbury, resulting in damage to the extent of £ GO, 000. The tar distillery at Bradbury and tinplat'c works in Glamorganshire were also burnt. OBITUARY. "Caesar,"' King Edward's favourite dog. CATHOLICS SURPRISED. The Observer's Rome- correspondent states that Monsignor Cerrette's appointment surprised Catholic circles. •"* A newspaper called "Rome" slates that the late Cardinal Moran at the last conclave impressed Pius X with the necessity of <lecontralising 'the church in the most (lisiant colonics. Ho suggested a primate for Australia in preference to a Papal legate. The Pope decided instead that an apostolic delegate shall be the connecting link. HARMONY. A conference between Count Borchtold, the Austrian Foreign Minister, and M. San (luilane, the Italian Foreign .Minister, at Abbozia, demonstrated the complete harmony in their views as exemplified during the Balkan cri-

IJocoivfd TliisDny. 11 a.m.) Paris, April ID.

Two aeroplanes at the Hue Aorodi'oinc, piloiod respectively by Deroye and Bidof., collided and ornshod to the ground. Doroy's gasoline engine exploded firing the machine. Deroyc and n passenger named Dalbin were burned io dentil and Bidoi nnd his passenger sustained fractured lnnbs.