CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4285, 21 July 1899, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Pbr Pbbss Asrooiation.— By Electric Tblbobaph— Copyright. London, July 19. Mrß Gladstone was thrown from ber carriage into a ditch at Hawarden and is suffering from a severe nervous shock. I Ihe fiev. P. P. Macdonald has been elected President of the Wes leyan Conference now sitting in London, for the ensuing year. Bbblin, July 20. Tbe German Empress slipped on a wet plank and badly sprained her ankle. Bomb, July 20. A shark fhock of earthquake, lasting Bsec , occurred here, and created a panic. The chief damage occur ed to suburbs, but there was no fatalities. Received July 21, at 10 a.m. Pbbth, July 17. The fourth body from the wreck of the City of York has been washed ashore. The official enquiry found the wreck tbe result of carelessness and want of judgment on the part of the captain One body has been washed ashore from Carlisle Castle j Washington, July 20. Serious agitation has at last induced Alger to resign the Secretaryship for War. MeKinley accepts his resignation shortly. Capetown, July 20. A statement by the Times in London that the Transvaal crisis was ended by Great Britain's acceptance of the Volksraad'fl concession of seven years prospective and retrospective franchise to the Uit landers has caused consternation in Capetown.

Romb, July 20. The earthquake alarmed the Pope while having bis afternoon eiesta in his villa. He fled into the garden. Mount Etna, Sicily, is in violent eruption.

Nbw Yobk, July 20. The trouble amongst the railway employees has spread to New York. Many fights with the police have taken place. One hundred arrests were made.