NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3991, 17 December 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

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London, December 14,

The Portsea Building Society, with mortgages to the value of £700,000 has suspended payment. In Scotland many deaths have resulted from attacks of influenza. It is believed that the Prince of Wales will allow the Duke of Clarence and Avondale £20,000 a year and a residence. St James' Gazette states that the marriage will be celebrated in Westminster Abbey in February, unless Her Majesty the Queen insists on it taking place in St George's Chapel at Windsor. December 15. The Daily Telegraph asserts • that the Duke of Clarence's honeymoon will be spent at Sandringham, and that the bride's trousseau will be entirely of English manufacture. Obituary—W. G. Wills, dramatist. The World states that Her Majesty the Queen will open Parliament in person.

The Phonograph has been applied to 55 inmates ot Johnson's Deaf Asylum, and 53 of the patients heard the reproduced sounds. Probat i has been granted on the wills of the late Mr Hemming, needlemaker, and Avery, weighing machine manufacturer. The value of their respective estates are £750,000 and £170,000.

In the Divorce Court to-day, in the case in which Miss Florence St John petitioned for a divorce from her husband, Mr Justice Jeune summed up in favour of the petitioner. The jury acquitted the petitioner on the charge of adultery with Arthur Cohen, financial journalist, and found respondent guilty of adultery, but acquitted him on the charge of oruelty. The ship Enterkin wrecked at Ramsgate is insured against a total wreck. I

The ship Enterkin struck on the Gallopers Sands. The lifeboat was stove in and drowned most of the crew.

Those left oh board, conetisthig of four hands; were washed overboard; the apprentice alone regaining the ship and taking to the rigging. He was five hours in this perilous position before' being rescued by a passing smack. Captain Sinclair, who nas to have taken command of the ship, whs seized with an attack of influenza prior to her departure and was succeeded by Captain Stephenson. December 15. Two of the Enterkin sailors were rescued in the Channel.

FOREIGN. Athens, December 15. The Kii*g of Greece, who was suffering from « mild attack of smallpox, is recovering. Colombo, December 15. While ir) .Ceylon, General converted 16 Mahommedans and Budhists. Vienna, December 15. The Arcbduke Sigismund, brother of Archduke Henry, died in Vienna of influenza. Hong Kong, December 15. China declines to exhibit at thoi Chicago exhibition. New YoiiK, December 15. Edward Field, Bon of Cyrus Field, has been arrested on a charge of stealing bonds belonging to his father and brother/ A thousand cages of influenza are reported at Norfolk, Virginia. Major M'Kinley is one of the sufferers. JsAN2raAi{, December 15. Eruin Pasha has encountered prolonged opposition in bis march to Equatoria, and there has been much fighting. At latest advices he was in if pracarious position, ■ . f