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President Harrison has ordered the release of the British sealer Coquiltan.
Mount Etna is very active and the lava has reached nearly to Nicolosi and Belhaso. Five craters have opened on Mount Etna. The village of Giarre is ruined.
One hundred and fifty persona were overwhelmed by floods and a landslip at St Gervais in. Switzerland. The catastrophe was caused by a glacier of ice falling in and diverting a mountain torrent.
.; Tlie accident happened at 8. in the morning, and Was bo sudden that half the village was demolished. Two other villages were submerged, t and 75 tourists killed. A portion^ 'of the Bibhnay glacier fell, and diverted the flpod water*, which destroyed-ihe St Gervaia bathhouses, which were full of sleeping tourists.
It is feared that the death list will reach 200.
The -.water, at St Gervais,. was a. hundred feet deep. , ,
A physician who heard the noise saved 15 persons by a timely
alarm.
A balloon, with three persons in a cage, ascended from Havre". Three days later it descended at Devizes, in England. The cage was : then empty and the balloon covered with snow.
Madame Baymond, a French lady in a good social position, has been acquitted on a charge of murdering Madame Lassimonne/ in Paris on the night of the 21st May.
On that evening the accused proceeded to apartments, where she found her husband with deceased. After inducing the former to lea,ve, Madame Eaymond fired at Madame Lassimonne, who was in bed, and killed her.
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Manawatu Herald, 16 July 1892, Page 2
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251Foreign. Manawatu Herald, 16 July 1892, Page 2
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