CABLEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Issue 10450, 23 September 1902, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

» (Per Press Associaiticm.—Copyright.) LONDON, September 20, Tho newspaper Guardiani describes the Bishop-elect of Melbourne (the Rev. Henry Lowthle* Clarke, M.A.,) as a moderate evangelical Churchman. The Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Wakefield strongly recommended the appointment. An. order for a battleship of th© type! of the Edward VII. has been placed with Clyde shipbuilders. The new first-class cruiser Berwick has beem launched ab Glasgow. The German and British steamship lines trading to La Plata have signed a three years!* agreement. Mr Percival Spencer, the wellknown aeronaut, in his own airship, sailed from, the Crystal Palace for 30 miles, with, detours across London, alighting at Harrow. Hydrogen was used as the motive power at a cost of £30. The speed was 15 miles an. hour. . The Tsar reviewed 89,000 troops at Kursk, and then started for Petersk>f. The Penzance express, when slowing to 20 miiles. an hour on approaching the station, collided with an engine shunting at Westbourne Park. The engines were locked togther. The first van, containing luggage, received the brunt of thie shock. Several passengers had limbs broken and others were badly shalten. The skull of one of, tho enginedrivers 1 was fractured and his condition is critical. SYDNEY, September 22. Madame Melba xm [ arrival at Albury, where she had arranged to meet her father, received, a shock on being informed that ho had been stricken, with paralysis, the result of extreme old flge, nnd the excitement at the prospect of meeting his daughter. The* attack is not: severe, bub as quietude is necessary, the father remains at Albury, while Melba proceeds to Melbourne. John Willetfcj a. miner, who had been prospecting- at Redbank, im the Avoca district, Victoria, decided to give up and removed his tools home. The* next morning, hiowever, lie determined to have one more try, and shortly after commencing work dug up a, nugget, of pure gold weighing l^lb and 4ozs of loose gold. Since then he has unearthed another and larger nugget.