;Paß Pbjssb i\hboi'Jation.] AUCKLAND, Fkb. 16. The Home Eule Bill was disonssed at a meeting of the Auckland branch of the Irish National Federation to-night, and a motion, proposed by the Chairman, Mr Jas. Tole, and seconded by Mr W. J. Speight, approving of the measure, and hoping that the principle of self-govern ment for Ireland, as proposed by the Bill, would receive the assent of Parliament, and commend itself to all sections of the ' Irish people, was agreed to. The resolution ■ is to be sent by cablegram to Mr Gladstone •■' to-morrow^

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
r» [Special to Pbkss Association-.] THE IONIC DISABLED. CAPETOWN, Fbb. 15. . . The lonio has been towed into Capetown with a broken shaft. A FBIGHTFUL QOCURREiTOEn VIENNA, Feb. 15. ,' While a ball was proceeding in a .town of Hungary, uome children .'. accidentally exploded a cask of petroleum in the room underneath. ".''A terrible fire followed, in which the J i.. n^eCTy^makers wereat once enveloped. Seventeen or 1 them were burnt to ; ' ashes, and twenty- two were more or ' lesß injured. ' ; WEECK. SYDNEY, Pbb. 16. " The Sandfly, formerly a gunboat in the Navy, was completely wrecked in the '' : Solomon Islands group. The crew was saved.
