ARRIVAL OF THE S. S. O M E 0 AT THE BLUFF WITH LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1879, 11 January 1875, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S. S. O M E 0 AT THE BLUFF WITH LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Burning of the Jship

Cospatrick.

460 lives lost, 3 saved.

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCI-

DENT IN ENGLAND.

Thiriy-one Persons Killed, and

Fifty Wounded.

(Renter's Special Telegram.)

Bluff, Sunday, 10.28 a.m. The Omeo, Captain Calder, left Melbourne at 3 p.m. on the 4th, and arrived off the Bluff at 8.30 p.m. on the 9th. She brings 25 saloon.. and 30 steerage passengers, and 300 tons of cargo, also 116 horses, for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 3 p.m. on the 11th.

London, December 26. The death is announced of Lord Eomilly, late Master of the Eolls.

Arrived: The Hampshire,, from Melbourne, and the Wennington, from Dunedin. f

A railway accident occurred at Skipton, which is unparalleled in the history of railway disasters. The train, consisting of two engines with 16 carriages attached, was proceeding at the rate of. 40 mile? an hour, when the axle of a third-class carriage next the engines broke. After running 30 yards, and tearing up the track, part of the train was precipitated over an embankment into a meadow and part into a canal. The actual number of dea hs is reported at 31, and there arc 50 persons in the hospital at Oxford suffering injuries. There was another, railway accident yeste day. An express train on the .North Western Eaiiway Jashed into a coal train at Wigan. One man was killed on the spot, 20 injured.

December 28.

The immigrant ship Cospatrick, bound to Auckland, was burned off the Cape of Good Hope on the 19th November. The mate and two of the crew wore saved, but the remainder of the crew and immigrants, 460 souls in all; are supposed to have perished. v

December 29.

The origin of the lire in the Cospatrick is unknown, but in an hour after ihe flames broke out the vessel was completely gutted. -..■•■

Hundreds cast themselves overboard only to perish by drowning. Captain A Elmslie and Dr Godsir stayed by the ship to the last moment, and then jumped overboard and were drowned.

Two boats were filled with thirty in each, under the first and second mates, and put off from the ship. Of one no tidings have been received, but the other, after being afloat for ten days, was rescued by the ship British Sceptre. It contained only three survivors out of thirty—Messrs Macdonald, Lewis, and Oottee—and they subsisted on the bodies of their comrades. The others died raving mad.

A Cospatrick Belief Fund has been started. The Lord Mayor, and the owners of the vessel, Messrs Shaw, Savill and Co., subscribed £200 each. The three survivors have arrived in London.

Berlin, December 26. An appeal is been prosecuted against the judgment in the Count Arnim case.

London, December 28. The New South Wales loan of a million sterling was announced on Saturday, and an Adelaide loan of £600,000 is announced to-day, both at four per cent., the minimum being ninety.. Madrid, December 31. An Alphonist pronunciamento has been promulgated at Madrid. Don Alphonso, Prince of the Asturias, son of Queen Isabella, is proclaimed King of Spain, and is recognised by the armies.

Paeis, December 31. At a conference of the party leaders, convened by McMahou, it was unsnimously resolved to discuss the constitutional laws as a whole, but a diderence of opinion exists concerning the transmission of powers.

London, January 1. Fifty thousand miners have struck in various, parts of Wales.

Madeid, January 2. Don Alphonso has arrived, in £pain. He is everywhere peaceably recognised, and the monarchical movement was effected without bloodshed. The pronunciamento is generally acquiesced in, and a new Liberal-ministry has been formed.

London, January 2. Sir Hercules Robinson has ben gazetted a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and bt. George, and Mr Innes, Attorney-General, a Knight, for services in connection with the annexation of Fiji. The Queensland mail, via Torres Straits, has been delivered. The deaths are announced of Ledru Roll in, French statesman, and the Duke of Montrose. • Sailed: The Whampoa, steamship, for Sydney. Bombay, January 9. The supposed Nana Sahib, arrested in Scindia, has been delared an impostor.