CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 29 December 1894, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The terrific gales which visited the British coast have been txpari enced in Holland, Belgium iand Hamburg. Greafc damage was dona and many lives lost.

Three fishing boats were wrecked on Lewis Island, Scotland, and 22 persons drowned. The gales wrecked the chief streets in Belfast.

Enormous damage has boen done in the northern part of Ireland, where all the town 3 - suffered severely. Four wrecks occurred near Liverpool, 40 of the officers and crews being drowned. The coastguard at Holyhead rescued 11 of the crew of tha barque Kirkiniehael by nnana of a Hoe and basket. Scores of chimney stacks and buildings in various parts of the country were blown down, killing many people. Up to the present the number of deaths in Great Britain by the gales has reaohed 105. The gale on the Mersey wrecked seven vessels, and 50 of those on ' board were drowned. ; At a fire in Chatham dockyard, 4 * Lord Charles Bereiiord was injured by some falling tiles. The latest bulletin regarding the condition of Lord Randolph Church' ill states that he is suffering from general paralysis, and that he ia in a highly critical state. The Anti-gambling League has instituted proceedings against the Jockey Club for keeping betting enclosures on Newmarkent Health.

The Bishop of Hereford, the Rigtit Rev James Atlay, is dead. Captain Younghusband, who was in command of the British expedition in the Pamir Plateau in August, 1892, advises that in order to render the Afghan frontier secure, Great Britain should open a direct route from Peshawur to Chitral, instead of the circuitous route by Gilgifc. He asserts that the thvee Powersinterested in the Pamirs are virtually in accord, and he does not expect any immediate trouble.

Captain Younghnsband, in referring to the proposal to evacuate Obifcral, states that Great. Britain ba9 built up a strong position there, that the ruler and the people .are friendly disposed to England, and that even with increased means of defence the danger of the invasion of India by way of Chitral has not been removed. , Lord Randolph Churchill ia m a. oomatose state. ■ : - The Royal Sooiety will not approach the -Government officially relative to the AntaretuLexpedition, but the movement will. not. be •!• lowed to remain in abayanoe.

Persistent reports a?e enmnt as to the exictenco of serious tension between the southern province! of Germany and Pius si a, owing to the Aggressive attitude displayed by the matter,