CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 121, 28 April 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

COLLISION IN Ti-iU CHANNEL. HEAVY SNOWFALL IN AMERICA. THE MAILS DELAYED. HER MAJESTY'S HEALTH. RUMORED DISCOVERY OP . "NUMBER ONE." ILLNESS OF THB QUEEN OF MAD&GA&CAR. (SPECIAL TO UNITED PEBSS ASSOCIATION.) (REUTfitt'S TELEGRAMS. ) . London, April 26. A collision, attended with set-ions loss of life, took place m the English Channel at midnight on Tuesday between the ship British Commerce 1417 tons, bound from London to MLebourne, and the ship County Aberdeen! 1365> tons, from Calcutta to London. The British Commerce was cut down below the water line, and sank almost immediately, only Captain Jones and the boatswain being saved. These two managed to clamber on board the Aberdeen. The number of lives lost was twenty-five. The County Aberdeen was severely damaged, and was towed into Portsmouth to undergo repairs. The accident is attributed to the weather whish was very thick at the time, Both vessels had general cargoes. A heavy snowfall m the state of Wyoming, has completely blocked the Union-Pacific Railway, and m consequence the homeward San Francisco m«ils have been delayed. The Queen's medical advisers fear that some months will elapse before Her Majesty will have completely/recovered from the effects of her recent accident. In the House of Lords, Earl Gxanyille, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, stated that he considered it premature to negotiate with the American Government respecting the freedom of the Panama. Canal. The French Chamber oi Deputies has accepted M. Tirard's scheme for the'con version of the 5 per cent. Rentes into new securities, at 4J percent. Jules Sandeau, the well-known French novelist, is dead ; aged 72. It is understood that the English Government have requested the Ameri? can Government to extradite the com" mercial traveller named Tynan, believed to be " N umber One," and who is at present residing m New York, : ; A deputation of merchants have interviewed Earl Granville, urging upon him the. necessity for doubling, the facilities of traffic through s the Suez Canal. .The Queen of Madagascar is seriously ill, and not expected to recover. The strike among the Vienna bakers has been settled. The Canadian Land Companies offer to locate ten thousand Irish families m the country if the English (ioverment agree to lending. a million of money. EarlDufferin has been instructed to strongly protest against the Sultan's 1 i misruling of Armenia.