CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4261, 4 November 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

r Loudon, November 2, | The Scotch express, travelling 1 southwards, camo into collision with a goods train at the Manor House siding, and all but two carriages were completely consumed by a fire which broke .out. Eight persons were killed and eleven injured, and it is feared several others perished in tho flames, The sufferers were taken to tho Thirsk Hospital. ■ The accident occurred during a fog, and when tho train was running a mile per minute. Lord Tweedalo and Huntley, who were asleep in the Pullman car, had a narrow escape. Fifty persons were injured by a collision on the Morsoy railway, In tho caso of Loader v. Smyth, the evidence shows that tho defendant, wife of Major-Goneral Smyth, accused her friend, the wife of Lieutenant Leader, of stealing and selling a diamond brooch. Ifrs Leader asserts

that the brooch was a present from a decoased 'officer, bonce the proceed-..-fogs for slander. The editor of the -Recently-established daily paper,' Tho Morning,' has been fined £IOO, and the publisher £SO for coinmeatmg on the case. Judgment was given to-day in the case in which it was sought to recover from one Maxwell, a Scotch farmer, tho Bum of £5,000, on a cheque given to the Marquis of Ailesbury for losses at baccarat, The defence was that *' Maxwell was drunk whon ho signed tho cheque, and tho Court upheld this Tiew, and believing the Marquis was aware of his condition at the time, dismissed the case with costs. Paris, November 2. The Eothscbilds have declined to | float the Russian loan, on the ground ■ of the cruel treatment to wbioh-tbe Jewish residents in Russia wero subjected, Vienna, November 2,_ During a panio in a church at Vingora twenty-five of the congregation were trampled to death, and many were injured, Sydney, November 3. 'Mil scene occurred in committee upon tho Electoral. Bill, recriminations arising between Mr Barton, the Attorney-General, and Mr Roe, one of the Labour members. The latter refused: to obey the chairman when called on to apologise, and was removed by the sergeant-at-arms, Subsequently howoyer, ho thought better of it, and made the necessary apology. Lohdon, November 1. It has been ascertained'that the murders at the Balrinadrimma police barraoks, in Ireland, were the act of a police constable, who subsequently committed suicide. Later, The constable who committed the murders at the Bulriqadtimma/ barracks wajinsane,...' ; ---

Sydney, November 2. Phillips, a teacher at the Engineering Teehnioal College, was killed this evening by an explosion ot gas, preparatory to experimenting with his class.