London.

Manawatu Herald, 5 November 1892, Page 2

London.

The United Sttttes Government is urging the release of Gallagher and other dynamiters. The Cabinet ia at present discussing the Home Eule scheme. It is reported that Lords Rosebery and Kiinberley and Sir W. V. Harcourt claim that the Queen should have the power of vetoing the laws passed by an Irish Parliament, on the advice I of the Imperial Government. ! Mr Gladstone has declined an invitation to the Lord Mayor's banquet, on the plea of ill health. The Balrinadrimma police barracks were attacked, and two policemen, a woman and a child were murdered. i It has been ascertained that it was I the act of a constable who subse- ' quently committed suicide. i The action Leader v. Smyth, for the recovery of jewels, is being heard in the Court of Queen's Bench, and is exciting much attention, in con-

sequence, of its remarkable similarity to Mrs Osborne's case. The evidence shows that the . defendant, wife of AtaJ r-General Sniyth, accused her friend, the wife of Lieutenant Leader, of stealing and selling a diamond brooch. Mrs Leader asserts that the brooch was a present from a deceased officer, hence the slander The sur^ivdrs of the Rouniariia nialte serious charges of negligence against the officers of rne vessel. Mr Arnold Moriey, PostmasterGeneral, has definately refused to renew the Imperial contribution to the cost of the San Francisco mail contract; The troopship, Crocodile* with 1150 passengers 6n board, narrowly escaped being wrecked on the Isle of White during a fog: The warship Howe striick on a reef at Ferrol. in Spain, and is in a dangerous position. The Scotch express, travelling southwards, came into collision with a goods train at Manor House siding and all but two carriages were completely consumed by fire which broke Outi The accident occurred during a fog at 4 o'clock in the morning when the train was running a mile per minute. Over a hundred passengers were in the train. Several of these had booked for Australia by the steamer Oratava. Altogether thirteen persons were killed.