CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5120, 15 June 1885, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

f Seuthk's Telegrams] [R.ceived June 15,11 a.m.] GLADSTONE'S^ DESIGNATION ACCEPTED. Lord Salisbury to form a New Ministry. London, June 12 (evening). It is announced that Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to accept the resignation of Mr Gladstone and his colleagues, and that Lord Salisbury, who is at present at Balmoral, has been sum' nioned to undertake the formation of a new Ministry.

London, June 12. The Marquis of Salisbury has been summoned to Balmoral by Her Majesty the Queen. The Eight Key. Dr. Webber, Bishop of Brisbane, was consecrated to-day at St. Paul's Cathedral by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by a large number of prominent clergy. The ceremony was witnessed by a large and imposing congregation. Pabis, June 13. Terrible Accident-200 Persons Killed. News is to hand from Thiers, a town in the department of Puy de Dome, of a shocking accident which occurred there to-day. A large number of people were assembled in the local court-house, when the staircase of the building collapsed, precipitating the occupants to the ground. Fully 200 persons are known to have been killed or seriously injured by the disaster. Madbid, June 12. Reports from the south of Spain show that the cholera is increasing in virulence, and has already extended over a consider* able area.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London, June 11. Official papers have been issued which define the difficulty there is in the way of creating a colonial navy. The North German Gazette, in an article on' the Samoan question, considers the claims put forward by New Zealand in regard to that island are untenable. London, June 10. The tenders for the Great Northern Bail way bridge over the river Hawkesbury (New South Wales), have been referred to a committee of civil engineers, consisting of Messrs Barlow, Berkley, and Galton.