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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2632, 25 June 1887, Page 2

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(United Pbess Association.) Auckland, June % \ Mr Bayley, the Yice Commodore : <fr the Boyal Albert Yacht Club, was cle-, eked a bankrupt on Ist June. His liabilities are £67,000. The Queen hasproposed to release all military prisoners confined on

jetty offences on the occasion of the rubiiee*. 'yj-

Oh 80tlrMii,y upwards of £4OOO had been subscribed by the present rnernbers- df. the: Boyal Household for a Jubilee presentjto the Queen. It will Sake the-place of a splendid.silver centre piece, , /. The subscription listof the Women's Jubilee' Offering closed oi 80'th.May, showhig J50,Q00 and a mllUonviM a half of subscribers;

; Mr Bell, tfot'oper-pf •Thistle, has espressed-Mmselfta-:the . effect that he conßideiaihe undertak-.. rog.of.an American contest <anyjbfo| but a light ihattet; but he was.ci^aiii;. : ; to receive fair play. Some yachting experts say" that the Thistle' is"Vth'e finest yachting craft' afloat, and the London Times'addß that there-is; certainly a hopefui chance thafeshe will bring back the Ameriorn Cup. Theracing yacht Thistle lost her bowsprit and was otherwise : damaged in a'galo during a trial run from the Clyde, where she was built,'- On 'the. 20fch May,.whilo on a trip, she rescued three men in a lifeboat belonging ~to' tho < steamer Harkaway; -which -had. foundered,,with'the loss of lG.lives.When the steamoi! went down tho lifeboat originally carried six. persons, throe of whom succumbed to privation. Mr Deßensande, husband to Violet Cameron,, the actress,;has obtained £I9OO damages against the Manchester! Umpire for libel contained in-an interview with Lord I»ongsdale published in that paper. '■.:;' •, . ; > ■■• A terrible explosion occurred in the Adston!cbal pit, Blantyre, Lanarkshire, on 27th May. Three hundred 'and twenty miners were entombed .in the deeps, forty-five of whom were released, from the upper seam, one dying after reaching the Burface, ' The explosion occurred in the lowest seam and access

to this was found blocked'-by the

debris resulting from the explosion. Twenty-five miners confined here are-, all thought to be dead. Seventyothermen were shut in the middle. 'seam,v and hopes were entertained .of 'saving most of them.' A despatch of May. 80 sayssixty-ou'e bodiesbad beenrecoverod : from the pit, many unrecognisable.' Thoy were horribly charred and the' limbs blown off.' ' • > : A dynamito bomb exploded., under the Police Court at Hepburn, Durham County, oh 28rd May,, partially destroying the building; ;The outrage is attributed to strikers. ;\ Lord. Colin'. Campbell, who recently brought a suit' against/his wife for divorce, was declared bankrupt on 28rd May, on the petition of the Duke of Marlborough, who was .co-defendant in' the. divorce suit, and who lodged the petition in the Bankruptoy.Court against. Lord Colin.for costs. His scliedulo shows liabilities..amounting to £9OOO, including £6OOO for divorce costs., '.. . - '■'

Panama despatches to the 16th May siy's-tbatin one of'the largest cuts water has been struok. The amount of rook and earth taken out of the section referred to, cost millions of dollars, all. which is. rendered valueless, as the water has washed from the side of,the mountain more than' sufficient to fill all the cut.

■ The Rev.i Mr McGlynn;refcaloitrant Roman•','Catholic' pastor of., St. Stephen's, New York, who refuses-to oboy the dictum of the Pope, jb- about to .embrace Protestantism; ■. lii his lecture, "The New Crusade" he does not hositate to freely criticise and even satirise the Roman Pontiff.

Mr Hewitt, Mayor : of New York) as' enforcing the Sunday • liquor law so 1 rigidly, that not only the saloons of that city are closed on the. first day of the week, but the landlords of hotels, are not allowed to serve' the guest's with beer, spirits, or wine. , Up to 19th May, .8000 persons, including metal workers, miners, and other trades had struck in the central district of Belgium. The troops are in constant demand to' prevent violence. The central crater of Mount Etna was active all the' morning of 81st May, and the lava flowed in large volumes. Masses of stone and cinders were : thrown to.a great '■• height, and heavy clouds of smoke enveloped the cone of the mountain.

A correspondent writes that the defeat of the favorite of the Derby was a foregone conclusion, the ring having laid too heavily against him to allow him to win. The ring'had suffered so heavily at recent meetings, that had the baron won, a large proportion of tho winnings of his backers could not have been paid, Others .'aire equally confident that the horse, was beaten on his merits. All, however, agree that the field was a poor ono.