THE TREATY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 5

THE TREATY.

Berlin, June 15 | The Samoan Government will shortly beinvited to declare its adhesion to the treaty entered into between Great Britain, America and Germany. Several of the provisions of the treaty will bo permitted to operate before the treaty is ratified.

London, June 12. A tkkrible railway accident is reported from County Armagh, where two excursion trains laden with twelve hundred Methodist Sunday-achool children collided. One of the trains was divided, and whilst descending an incline the fore part, consisting of the engine and several carriages ran back into the remaining carriages of the train. It is estimated that about one hundred children were killed, and another hundred injured. Four railway officials including the driver fireman, and guard, of the train, have been arrested for alleged negligence in not having taken proper precautions to ensure the safety of the passengers.

Glasgow, June 14. A thousand dock labourers, connected with the combination of labour unions, now demanding increased wages and other concessions for seamen employed on Atlantic liners, patrolled Glasgow to-day, and intimidated " black-legs " who had taken the places of some of the men out on strike. The Lord Provost of Glasgow declines to attend the ceremony of conferring the freedom of the city of Edinburgh upon Mr Parnell.

Berlin, June 13. At the Samoan Conference further concessions have been granted to the United States. It is probable that the Conference will decide to restore Malietoa. The Conference will now shortly conclude its sittings.

Nkw STork, June 14. St. James's Cathedral at Brooklyn has been destroyed hy lightning. Mr J. C. Blame, Secretary of State for the United States of America, disapproves of the agreement proposed for settlement of the Samoan affairs by the Conference at Berlin, and has made a request that it should be re-considered.

SxTAKiM,"June 14. ' Small-pox is ravaging- amongst the Dervishes encamped in the vicinity of this city.

Melbourne, June 14. The " Age," in a strong article this morning, says : —" The republication o* the 'Age' article, challenging John Dillon, one of the Irish delegates now in Australia, to account tor the disposal of the League funds, by the London ' Times/ will act as a ■ timely corrective to the false and misleading reports as to the growing success 'of the mission in Australia, with which Mr Dillon gulls his dupes in Ireland, and will convince the \ people of England that we are not such fools in the colonies as Mr Dillon represents us. While readily admitting that the Irish people are suffering cruelly from oppression and neglect, we in Australia have no sympathy with organisations employing assassins and dynamiters to get rid of political opnonents, and which grow fat by trading upon the ignorance of their friends."

London, June 15. I A recent arrival reports having passed the barque Staffa on fire on the Atlantic Ocean. The vessel had been abandoned, and there was no sign of any of the officers or crew. The Stafla is a wooden barque of 921 tons gross register, at latest advices in charge of Captain Feltene. She was built by Gingras, of Qusbec, in May 1861, and she is owned by G. Windram, of Liverpool. The senior magistrate of Edinburgh wiU perform the ceremony of conferring the freedom of the city upon Mr Parnell.