CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4024, 11 January 1875, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

London, December 26t&. The death is announced of Lord Romillir late Master of the Rolls.

The corn market is firm. No Adelaide wheat in stock. . :■"..'■:■:■ •>

Wool is steady. Stocks are low. with a moderate consumption. The next sales are fixed for the 23rd February. Hemp is inactive. Prices remain steady. Arrived.—Hampshire, from MelbourneWemington, and Dunedin, from New Zealand. •

A railway accident that has occurred aft bhipton is unparrelleled in the history of railway disasters. The train consisted of two engines, with sixteen carriages attached, and was proceeding at the rate of forty miles an... hour when the axle of a third-class carnage next the engines broke. After running thirty yards, and tearing up the rails, the back part of the train was precipitated over an embankment into a meadow, and part into a canaL The actual number of deaths is reported to be 31,' "and 50 persons are in the hospital at Oxford* suffering from injuries. ■ : . Another railway accident occurred yesterday. An express train on the NorthWestern railway dashed into a coal train a& Wigan. One person was killed on the spot and 20injured. .■••... .;. •;= ._

London, December 2Stb_ The emigrant ship Cospatrick, bouad. far Auckland, was burned off the Cape on the 19th of November. The mate and two of the crew were saved, but the remainder of the crew and emigrants, to the number o£ 460 souls in all, are supposed to have perished. ■

The New South Wales loan of a million sterling was announced on Saturday, and the Adelaide loan of six hundred thousand was announced to-day. Both were four pee cent., the mini'ininn being ninety. December 29th. The origin of the fire on the Cospatrick is unknown, but an hour after the flames broke out the vessel was completely gutted. Hintdreds cast themselves overboard, only to perish by drowning. . Captain Elmslie and DrCadsa staved by the ship until the last moment, and then, jumped overboard and were drowned Two boats, filled with 30 persons eacii, under the first and second mates, put off from the ship. Of one no tidings has beea received, but the other, after being afloat for 10 days, was rescned by the ship British Sceptre. *

Thig boat contained only three survivors out of thirty—Messrs Macdonald, Lewis, and S° • J a? d they subsisted on the bodies e£ tneir dead comrades. The others died ravmg mad. . i-:.':■.:.".

wtt. «. , January 2nd. .titty thousand miners have struck" work in various parts of Wales

c- tt " i ■ " January 3rd. fcir Hercules Robinson has been gazetted a Knight of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, and Mr Innes, Attorneygeneral, has been knighted, for services in. connection with, the annexation of Fiji.

A Cospatrick Relief Fund has been started. The Lord Mayor and the owners of the vessel (Messrs Sbaw, Savill: and Co.) subscribed £200 each. The three survivors have arrived in London. The Queensland mail, via Torres Strait, has been delivered. . The deaths are announced of M. Ledru Rollin, the French statesman, and the Duke •of Montrose. Sailed : Whampoa, -steamship, for Sydney. Berlin, December 26 th. An appeal is being prosecuted against the judgment in Count Arnim's case. Paris, December 31st. At a conference of party leaders convened ~by President Macmahon, it was unanimously jesolved to discuss Constitutional laws as a •whole, but a divergence of opinion exists the transmission of powers. Madrid, December 31st. .In an Alphonsist pronunciamento promulgated at Madrid, Don Alphonso, Prince of .Asturias, son of Queen Isabella, was proclaimed King of Spain. He was recognised sby the armies. January 2nd. Don Alphonso has arrived in Spain, and -was everywhere peaceably recognised, and *the monarchical movement effected without "bloodshed. The pronunciamento is generally acquiesced dn, and a new Liberal Ministry has been formed. Bombay, January 2nd. The supposed Nana Sahib, arrested by the •Scindia, has been declared an imposter. Galle, January 2nd. The Nubia arrived on the 24th December. THE GAOL. The following shows the state of H.M.'s <3aol, Dunedin, for the week ending the 9th -January, 1575 :— Males. Females. Awaiting trial... ... 1 0 Under remand... ... 2 1 Penal servitude ... 29 2 Hardlabour 7S 23 Default of bail 0 1 Total 110 27 Received during the week 16 4 Discharged 14 7