CABLEGRAMS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT. Reuter's Telegrams.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 44, 5 April 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT. Reuter's Telegrams.

Received 4th, 2.20 p.m. Melhournk, Friday. The inquiry info the Little River railway collision coni nonces on Saturday. Hiekman Molesworth (County Court Judge) will act as President of the Court of Enquiry* Craik, diivcr of the passenger train, has died from injuries received by the collision. A list giving r.lio names of 23 persons seriously injured has been published. Many others slightly. Everything tends to confirm tho frightful nature of the shock. The trucks were heaped upon one another for a ilistance of twenty foot, and tenders atop the engines. The scene was one of desolation. 1 lie state of the injured was most pitiful until assistance arrived ; t'.iis was not till four hours hail elapsed. Middle Wen'iboe, stationmaster, confessed his responsibility for the catastrophe. The staff system is, it appears, partially in abeyance on the Victorian linos. Accounts from the Sunbury disastei state that the explosion was terriffic. several trucks smashed, and a fire box weighing half a ton blown to a distance of 300 yards. Humours are current that Berry will shortly relinquish, the portfolio of Postmuster General, rctaiuiug only that of Chief Secretary. London, April 3rd. Telegrams to hand from Cherbourg, announcing 1 that tiic body of the late Duke Albany was embarked from that pott to-day tor England, the. Prince of Wales precedes with the steamer. A most disastrous fire occurred today in Paternoster Row, it raged fully five hours, ami resulted in the destruction of several houses an 1 immense damage to property. The loss will, it is expected, prove to be enormous*