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Show ltrillNU 1S11S. London, 8. The British admiralty has a telegram announcing a boiler accident aboard the warship Pelican, by which three persona wore killed and a number injured. The fast train on the Great Eastern R.ilway ran off the) track at Manning-tree, Manning-tree, Essex. Tbedriverand stokorwere killed, and several passengers injured. Queen Victoria, to-day, at Windsor Castle, received the officers and men who distinguished themselves in tho Zulu war, and conferred iho Victoria crops and o.ber decorations n one corporal and three privates of llorke's Drift Garrison Generals Newdigate, L'realock and Pear-rons Pear-rons and other South African commanders com-manders attended the ceremonies. Operative cotton spinners of t)ldham ask 10 per cent increase of wages, in consequence con-sequence of the improvement in trade |