LORD MAYORS BANQUET.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9538, 3 November 1892, Page 2

LORD MAYORS BANQUET.

Mr Gladstone has declined the invitation to the Lord Mayor's banquet on the plea of ill health. PAN-BRITANNIC COMMIT fEE. Tho Duke of Fife has joined the Pan-Britannic Committee.

OVERDUE STEAMERS ARRIVED. The overdue Atlantic liners have arrived safely.

MURDERS IN POLICE BARRACKS. It has been ascertained that tho murders at Bilrincdea police barracks, in Ireland, were tho act of a constable, who subsequently commitned suicide. It has now been ascertained that he was insane.

RISE IN BANK RATES. It is expected that the bank rates of discount will shortly advance to i per cent. PROHIBITION IN PACIFIC ISLAND. The President of the United States has accepted England's proposal to prohibit the sale of arms and spirits to Pacific Islanders. MATATUA ARRIVED HOME. London, November 2. Arrived : Matatua from Lyttelton (September 0). 'FRISCO MAIL CONTRACT. Mr Arnold Morley, PosttnastorGoneral, has definitely refused to renew the 'Frisco mail contract. A HEAVY FAILURE. Hobbs & Co., contractors, whose business is now in liquidation, aro indebted to the Liberator Buildiug Society for over two million pounds.

COLLISION ON MERSEY RAILWAY

Fifty persons were injured by a collision on the Mersey railway. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. The Scotch express, travelling southwarns, came into collision with a goods train at Manor House siding. All but two carriages were completely consumed by the fire which broke out. Eight persons wore killed, and eleven injured, and it is feared that several others have perished in the flames. The sufferers >verc ttiken to thc'Thirsk Hospital. Tho accident occurred during a fog when the

trnin running a mile per minute. Lords Tweedalc and Iluntly, who were asleep in tho Pullman car, had a narrow escape. FROZEN MEAT FOR FRENCEI ARMY". Weddell's party and a number of French War Office officials lunclied at Havre upon the s.s. Otarama's frozen beef. They considered the meat nnd freezing arrangements aboard the Otarama were excellent, and tho guests all expressed warm admiration. The officials will report to General De Larbe, member of the Superior Committee of War. Mr Weddcl considers the bei'f in capital condition as far as he has seen. RUSSIAN LOAN. Paris, November 2. The Rothschilds have declined to float the Russian loan, on tho ground of the crnel treatment to which the Jewish residents were subjected. HAMBURG FREE OF CIIOLEBA. Bkrmn, November 2. Official announcement is made that Hamburg is free from cholera. PANIC IN A CHURCH. Vienna, November 2. During a panic in a church at Viudora, twenty- five of the congregation were trampled to death and many injured.