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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 60

In the Soelzer and Nenak mine, Esseu-on-Ruble, Germany, 24 miners were injured, some seriously, by the cage in. which they were being conveyed down the shaft coming in contact with the ground at the bottom of the mine. The House of Deputies of the Ep:scopal Church, according to a Boston telegram. has now accepted the amendment of the House of Bishops to the compromise resolution with regard to the Divorce Law. A bishop will not be required to issue a licence for the remarriage of an innocent party in a d vorce suit, but will merely be called on to declare in writing that in liis judgment the circumstances of the applicants case confirm to the canon requirements. Fifteen Chinamen arrived from Australia by the Warrimoo on Wednesday. Eleven of these are new to the country. and tlio Treasury chest will be augmented to the extent of £llOO by way of poll tax. Mr George Paradise (of the firm of Messrs Wbitcombe and Tomb t and Airs Paradise leave on a trip to England in April next.