CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1862, 26 July 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN ENGLAND. THE MARQUIS OP SALISBURY BENT FOB, ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT HOBART. TWO PERSONS MISSING. London, July 22. The resignation of Mr Gladstone and his colleague* bag been accepted by the Queen, and her Majesty ha* summoned the Marquis of Salisbury to nudertake the formation of a new Ministry. Hobart, Jnly 23. As tbs express train from Launceston last night was crossing the viaduct at Bridgewater, about 12 miles tram this city, the swiag bridge opened and the engine fell and got jammed against the buttress. This prevented the carriages following, bnt the toodsr tuned topsy-turvy and dropped into tbs river. Tbs fireman and another person missing, and it is snppoaed they have bun drowned. TBI DILI*.CRAWFORD DIVORCE SUIT. ». , Jnly 23. , “ msnaiwneed that the Marquis of Balis■nw will to-day (Friday) bold s consultation wiu the leaders of his party as to the formaa new Ministry, and to-morrow Oabctno to obey her Majesty's ijjtihe Omwfaed divorce soil the jury has urdiot to tbs affect tbit the tyMP’ifMtu bnd Wled to sstobUsb his

case, and the decree of divorce pronounced by Mr Jnatioe Butt in January last was confirmed.

The Prince of Wales and Sir P. 0. Owen propose that a permanent Colonial Exhibition be established at South Kensington, and five colonists have guaranteed £SOOO a-pieoe towards its maintenance. The London Chamber of Commerce advocates the project, and proposes to have the building for it erected on the Thames Embankment, bnt admit that it will require a large colonial vote to carry it out.