CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1253, 22 January 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[kivtbk'b tblkgbams]. BV ELKCIBIC TELEGRAPH.-<COPYRIGHT,) LONDON, J*n. 20. News w*a received here from Hamburg that the Hamburg. American Co. 's steamship Cambria has been lost in the North Sea, having sunk after a collision with another vessel. 39 passengers and crew reached Coxhaven at the mouth of the Elbe in ship’s boats. The Marqui. of Hartington, M.P., for North-east Lanaaahire, and Secretary of State for War, in a speech at Manchester last night, .tated that the present Government would never grant a law granting autonomy to Ireland, although It was proposed to grant the Irish people a certain measure of self-government. January 21. The steamship Cambria was bound from Hamburg to New York; there were 190 souls on board when she sailed. Up to the present only 50 have been saved ; the worst is feared us to the fate of the remainder, NEW”YORK, Jen. 21. Intelligence is to hand of a serious railway accident on the overland line between San I Francisco and Omaha. The train bound for j the former place slipped while ascending a | steep gradient and rolled over the embank- ; ment. The engine and all the carriages j were shattered to pieces. So far as at pre- ! sent is known twenty passengers have been I killed and a number of others are seriously j injured, BERLIN. Jan. 21. j The death is announced to-day of Prince I Frederick Charles, son of the second broI ther of the Emperor William, born 1801. I (? 1828)