NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3231, 15 June 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH.- ; [j London, June 13. n: It is reported that Italy has occupied ft Senhabit in Abyssinn, 1 |j Mr Gladstone, speaking''at St rr Austell, near Truro in Cornwall advocatedHoiiio Rule for Scotland, and n( Wales,and the disestablishment of i) tlio Chinch, B A terrible railway accident is reported from County Armagh, where y, two excursion trains, laden with 1207 a: Methodisi Sunday school children 0: collided. One of the trains was 'f divided whilst ascending an incline, and the forepart, consisting of an en- n gine aiid seveial carriages, ran back t] into the remaining cavtiuEjea of the p train. It is estimated that about 100 - are killed, and another hundred fire i| injured. • .. J In consequence of the fatal railway tl accident in Armagh four officials, ineluding tho driver, fireman, and guard t of the excursion train, have been I arrested for neglect, [ The Imperial Government has aut- B mitted tho name of Major-General t Lord W, Seymour as commandant of s the Victorian forces. 5 News lias reached here to the effect j that Stanley arrived Uriui on the Victoria-Nyanza on 2nd Docembef, ] with his following much radncod by ( starvation and fighting, He thereupon turned back and rejoined Emin Bey ] at Unyara. It is thought , Stanley j intended to proceed to the Insahila i provision depot, The will of the late Carl Rosa, operatic singer, has been proved j under LBO,OOO, . " " ] I The Inman Lino has offered to ' : concede the demands of the seamen ' 1 for an increase of wages to J/5 per i 1 month, but the proposal was not uc- '• cepted. The Seamen's Union demand ; I that the concession shall be universal. ; In consequence of the strike traffic with America is partly suspended, , ' Mr Garland, member of. the New 3 South Wales Parliament, has arrived r in London. He had a narrow escape t from sharing the fate of the victimsof « the Johnstown disaster. He was in- ' specting natural gaswells in the j vicinity during the day, hut hearing g that tlje reservoir was reported unsafe t he left at once. That same night the reservoir burst artd swept the inliabl ,f tants into eternity, Mr Garland [■ visited the various gaswells in Penn--i- sylvania and is convinced the wells d discovered at Narrowbeen, near '• Sydney, are identical with those of ® America, g Mrs Maybrick is being tried by the (1 Magistrate on the charge of poisoning 0 her husband, !•- "foreign. 'o Paris, Jnno 12, '■ The Prince and Princess of Wales 1 and their daughters visited the colonial section at the Exhibition yesierI) day, and expressed much gratification is at the New Zealand Court, The it Australian wool' exhibits were much fr admired. '' Constantinople, Juno, 13. The Porte has nominated a commission to inquire into the causes of Ie dissatisfaction in Crete, • n Berlin, Juno 13. 0 f The Duke of Edinburgh is on a in visit to this city, id Germany has informed the Swiss th Government that it regrets that no settlement of the Wohlgemuth frontier episode lias been arrived at, and Jj intimates that Germany reserves the right to take whatever measjires it re may deem necessary, st ( Belgrade, June 13. of It is stated a plot has been formed hero to depose tho young King Alexander.