CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4497, 15 August 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British a n d Foreign

London, August 12. News has b?en received that ■ Ernest 11., Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Goths, has suffered a fit of apoplexy, and that his condition causes the utmost anxiety to Lis friends. The Duke is S9venty-five years of age. His heir presumptive is theDnkeof Edinburgh, The Unionist Party in the House of Commons regards unfavourably Air Gladstone's proposal for a joint conference to discuss the schedules of the Home Eule Bill and the redistribution of tho Irish seatsat Westminister, Speaking at Rugby upon the new olause relative to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, Sir Chas. .Russell strongly opposed it. In the discussion of the question, Mr Balfour asked why the IrishExeoutive shoujd he granted a power which the British' Government did not possess. Mr Gladstone said the question involved imperial concerns. • It is understood that the Whips reported that a division would be dangerous.

~ Mr Courtney moved that members . of the Irish Executive should be al» r lowed to., speak in both Houses, but r not have power to vote, > . The Premier regarded 'he ianovaJ tion with Buspioio::, and thought they t bad better leave it to the Irish Parlia- " aent to settle. "... " , The proposal was'negatived, , Colonel Colrille and two other 1 officers have started from Uganda to ' ootnmand the Soudanese, ' ; MessrsTillotj. Mann, and Havdie; on behalf of the Vigilance Committee, are appealing for/funds to asßißt tbe miners oi( strike,'.. , 4 traib crammed with holidaymakers ran off the rails at Llautrissent, in Glamorganshire, yesterday, • "Throe carriages rolled 6Q yards down an embankment. The passenger? were, wedged. in the wreckage; and a heartrending scene oocurred. , Fifteen persons were killed and 50 injured, , \ HiM.Si Triumph;has arrived at Portsmouth with the survivors of the Victoria disaster on: board, , : : Many affecting scenes were wit- 1 nessed when the men landed, '■'■•.■■".■'JfeiGßADß', AugUst 12. ; .The advent of the Radical Party to '. ipowerhasledto a great, increase of '. onroein l the ; qoi}nVy v and . to; polilioal. motives" have i ibfeitecOrdod in four wioqihs,.. "1