NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2798, 14 January 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

'■•.•' ■ v ; ■• LpNDMt, January 12. :; : ;§S| ■"•. Mr HealyiM.P,,has to ;.a fortnight's imprisonment : 'stoning : .'at Tralep, ■-' ;S ;:ft| f; • Lord George HamilfiJlf Fh'st ) Lordf | of the Admiralty, spelSmg : at \Te6Vf | dington last;• night, ; promised that &0t Colonial Naval Defence BiUwould be;;;| introduced next session. ; . .'■ : - ; '' ■ ->r|| \ Speaking at Liverpool, '■ Lord Balis^ % bury said that the ass|rtm;that;tlifi|| Cabinet really favored Home Rule MM Ireland, was without foundation.; Thei;v| greatest cruelty of which Englandliad|| been guilty towards Ireland" was ttie! || vacillating policy of successive Govern; ments. •.. . ; ■ .',-';■■• : }"M \[,[ - Paris, January 12.;£| The judge who heard the. chargesJ;J preferred agamafc "iM .Wilson has beenfeSi degraded for unfair treatment in trying v^; to entrap the'acoused. : y.',:..: y M Durban, January. vi| News has teached here that is imminent between, the Zulu- chiefs:*; Dinizulu and UsibepuJ wlio Were cause of the recent disturoHice;hv.yg Zululand. : A force of dragoons have been Ordered to;proceed from here to :.;J the seat of the trouble. ." ' : : :^; FEAEFUL RAILWAI(>COLLISION f TERRIBLE'SUFFERING,:;;': | \ Philadelphia, January 11./; j< A terrible railway disaster occurred % near Wyoming, in Luzerne County,;; Pennsylvania yesterday. A passenger train, crowded with.'.'; .passengers, was run into by a goods ■■> train, The carriages of the foriner | were swashed to pieces, and the : ■ \ wreckage was fired by the stoves used ; for warming the compartments. • / v [ The most appalling scenes were \ I witnessed. A great many, beingunable to extricate themselves from - the. wreckage wero burned to death, ; and a number of those who did get ; ; free were frozen to death, fhe weather : ; being bitterly cold at the time. The scene was so horrible that the conductor of the train' lost his reason, y

A DENSE FOG: Lonoon, vfenuary 11. The dense fog wffla prevailed throughout the greater portion of the 1 United Kingdom to-day seriously interfered with business, and several accidents and fatalities have been reported. The steamers plying between Folkestone and Boulogne had to cease running in consequence of the fog. CRIMINAL ASSAULT BY A CLERGYMAN. ' Londoh, January 12. The Rev Mordaunfc Lowther, a cousin of the Earl of Lonsdale, was summoned for criminal assault, but did not appear when called on. He was subsequently discovered in his bedroom with his brains blown out, .