CAPE NEW.

Evening Star, Issue 8770, 10 March 1892, Page 2

CAPE NEW.

[By the Dome.]

A serious railway collision occurred about fourteen miles from King William Town. The train, which left East London at 1.20 p.m. for Cape Town, came into collision with an engine on the way from Toiae River to East London, both running at full speed when the aooident happened, and at a spot where the drivers could not observe either engine approaching. Four lady passengers were seriously hurt. Driver Squires, of the engine coming from Toise River, was so seriously hurt that he died soon afterwards. The stoker jumped off and escaped. The driver of the engine of the passenger train was slightly hurt. The stoker on this engine also jumped off, but was not so fortunate as his brother stoker.

At the Cape Town Police Court Abraham Qedera (colored) and' Alfred Morris alias Cookie (white) were oharged with the murder of Delia Hop, Weela tquare. The woman, whose skull was fractured, did not die until some time afterwards in the New Somerset Hospital, whither she had been removed. Before her death Hop made a statement incriminating Motris. Ceders was arrested on the strength of other evidenoe. William Johannes Solomon, a oolored boy, stated that he heard a woman crying in an adjoining house. Accompanied by another boy named Jimmy he climbed on to the roof, where he could command a view of the square. He stood behind a chimney, and Jimmy stood on a water tank. From the roof be saw Ceders come out of the house, No. 7, with an axe in his hand, and stand in the doorway. The man's faoe was smeared with blood, and the boy heard him say «» Vrek nou, ek het virjougekopt" (die now, I've chopped you). He noticed that the axe was alao covered with blood.

Daring the abaenoe of the landlord (his spouse was laid up with the influenza) someone quietly walked into the private receaaee of one 'of the bebtknown local holstelries in Cape Town and quietly walked off with about L 250, which was unfortunately the greater pa rj in gold. At Uftenbfge a young Scotchman named John Ord disappeared, and was found afterwards near the railway with a bullet through the laft temple and a revolver in his left hand. He was the accidental cause of a fire which destroyed hia brother's shop, an/? tibials supposed to have preyed on his mind.' *"•''" A farmer and storekeeper named B/uton, highly respected in the Barkly distript, acci : dentally killed himself while shooting on his farm. Greefdale, on Sunday, He had shot a stembuck from hia oart, and having reloaded his gun, he lumped down, and in order to give the buck tbe coup de grace, knocked it on the head with the butt of the gun, which unfortunately exploded, the charge entering his side. His wife waß in the cart at the s!me. Somo debris-washers made a lucky find at Kimberley. i'hay name across a picked parcel of diamonds, valued' at L 250, supposed to have been concealed in the ground cyan emploje" in league with the 1.D.8. fraternity. , x . After many months of patient watching and investigation, J. 11. Wilson, locally known as " lug " Wilson, has bean arrested on the charge of being implicated in the attempt to blow up with dynamite the offices of the De Beers Compauy on July 9 last, The polioe have been perpetually on Wilson's traok, following successive clues in Kimberley, Cape Towb, Prince Albert goldfields, and Klipdam River diggings, Tbe prisoner was arrested at Klipdam. At Kimberley influenzi is rapidly on the ipprflisp, and ia greatly impeding mining operations, The barque Qnaway, 480 tons, from New York, in attempting to make the purban anchorage, went ashore near tbe gouth breakwater. The crew were Bave*d, but the vessel became a total wreck. The Onaway is a British barque of 441 tonß burthen. She was built at Saokville, N. 8., in 1877, by E. W, Ogden, and is owned-at the same ?ort by J. Wood. Her offioial number is 1,317, and she left New York with a general cargo about the middle of October last.

Considerable migration to the Klein Letaba gold fields is expected during the coming wintor. Syndicates have been formed, and arrangements are being made to send plant and men to work in sober earnest.

The Pretoria ' Press' says it is satisfactory to learp on the best possible authority that the widely .-circulated report that the President, Bpeaking at Rustenburg, said that the majority of Afrikander? would be of no more service in the Government offices than go many baboons was an absolute fabrication.