CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4297, 17 December 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

v "'■■•' London, December 15. Lady A bdy's petition for divorce was dismissed. Madame Benitz swore that she had never seen either the petitioner or her husband till the trial, .'■■■'

. Gwyneth Maude's term of imprison-mi-ntiß three months, .

The explosion' in the colliery at Banfuiling, Wigan, orginated in tho engine«house, and Btopped the ventilation of the mines. It is feared that all thoseentombed have been hilled. Those engaged in thaworkof rescue are working long hours in an atmosphere almost suffocating.

Fourteen bodies have been' recoverd from the Bimfurlihg mine, Wigan, and it is feared the soarohers wll find dozens more.

The loss of the P. and 0. Company by the wreck of the Mhara is estimated at £200,000, The announcement that Sir Pryce Pryca-Jones had been unseated for the Montgomery district is notcorrect, the petition having been dismissed. The Judge disagreed on the matter. At the wool sales, competition is better and prices slightly firmer. Heavy burry. wools are neglected. Paris, December 15.

News from Dahomey states that Kingßehanzin is at the head of 20,000 troops, and threatens to resume the war on the ground that the French are violating the agreement, He offered to cede Whydah to 'England. The death isannoonced of M. JEmile Leinonnier, a well-known writer. Brisbane, December 16,

A camp of Dora Dora blacks h,a'a been discovered near Caboolture, and in it whs found a swag containing notes, which hayesinca been identified as belonging to a murdered man. The police are pursuing the blacks,

St" PEiEßSßUßo,Deoember 15,

A Russian otfioer, of hi'sh rank, has been ra ut rderetl at Kiev, and the outrage is attributed to Nihilists.