ENGLISH NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1819, 4 January 1888, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

Melbourne papers recently to hand •contain the following items of cable news which were either not sent to New Zealand at all or sent in a very abbreviated form :—

LONDON, December 13.

The Asia Minor steamer Bellona was overtaken in a gale off Salonioa, Turkey. There were 400 Greeks on board. During theVtorm a false alarm of fire was raised, and a great panio ensued. The people on board took to the boats, one of which was capsized and 50 persons drowned. In the rash for the boats others were crushed to •death. During the oonfusion, tbieveß •entered the cqttn, and stole money to the amount of £2000. 1 December 14.

The Bey. Berijaroin Waugh, the popular Mtbor of the Stnday Magazine, and also "well known fo? bis exquisitely written « fevotioaal papers entitled " Evenings for Children," has been violently handled by a ruffian. He was assaulted, severely inj and, and sobbed of money and valuabUw. His aamilant was arrested, and has been sentenced to 15 months' impriso.tßttent with hard labor and twenty iasheav

December 18. The Spectator names the Bight Hon. John Money, M.?. for Newcastle-on-Tyne, as likel.V to suopeed Mr. Gladstone in the leadership of the Liberal Party. . Lord IBandolph OhurcbiJl, speaking at Btookport. described the hopes of the party declaring for the maintenance of the onion between Bnglatid and Ireland, as brighter than ever. The Irish National League, on the other hand, he said, was growing weaker, and its condition could 'now only be desoribed as " wobbling." Dr. Gross* of Cork, .who had an intrigue with a governess, has been convicted of poisoning his wife. He has been semenoed to be banged.

The Duke of Norfolk, who was appointed Special Envoy from the Court of Si James to the Pope, has tern received at Borne with great pomp and ceremony. He handed to the Pope a private letter from her Majesty ; and the reports from the Vatican state that his Holiness was deeply moved on receiving woofs of the friendship of the Queen, i He expressed a hope that the custom of the exchange of eentitnents between European Courts and himself on great international questions of vital important to' the whole world would be extended. The ceremonial meeting of the Pope and the Special Envoy from Gnat Britain was of the most impressive ebtracter.