CABLE NEWS.
(reuter’s telegrams.) London, April 5. The Kight Hon. John Bright is suffering from slight congestion of the lungs. Further parleying, which has been proceeding between the representatives of England and Spain, with a view to conclusion of the fresh commercial treaty has proved fruilles, and negotiations have now ceased. TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE—I2O PERSONS DROWNED. Telegrams are to hand announcing that the steamship Daniel Steinman, 1,790 tons, from Antwerp, became a total wreck on the coast of Nova Scotia, and 120 persons have been drowned. Charles Bead, the well known novelist and dramatist, is reported to be in a dying state. Intelligence has been received from Karsala, a town in the Soudan, near the frontier of Abyssinia, that the garrison there is in a critical position, and that the Governor of the town has appealed to the British Government for aid.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 101, 7 April 1884, Page 2
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145CABLE NEWS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 101, 7 April 1884, Page 2
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