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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 16, 18 March 1890, Page 2

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London, March 14. Viscount Dunlo, vjho created a sensation in July last by marrying Miss Bilton, a singer at the Alhambra Music Hail, is petitioning : for a divorces on the grounds of his wife’s adultery with a bric-a-brac dealer. March 15. The strike of 200,000 colliers is causing a great deal of excitement throughout the ; country, and" short production, from the Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Leicestershire, Warwick, and North Wales mines. Members of the Union are attacking non-unionists at’'Liverpool, and a body of 500 .troops have been ordered there to preserve order; ■ March 16. It has been discovered that ■ the»explosion in the Aorfa colliery, resulting in large loss of. life, was caused by a miner firing shot without permission. New Zealand hemp has further declined. Quotations: Good, £25 ; fair, £22, with poor ' The Glenrock Company have decided to reform with a capital of £3ISJXK), and td absorb the Premier Goldmining Company of New Zealand. . Pajsis, March 15. News has been received that the bombardment of Aborney and Kilavy by French gunboats', has caused great excitement among the I}ahomeyans, and a ! pahic resulted. . . . ,1 San Fbancisoo, March 16. In a glove fight tc-dayßilly Murphy, of New. Zealand,.knocked put Tommy Warren, of ’Frisco in four rounds. Bmcbane, -March 14. Most disastrous,floods, have, taken place the last'few days,' the mghest ever recorded. Hundreds of houses in the ' suburbs alre enlirely subhterged, and boats are plying night and day rescuing the occupants. Four cases of drowning are reported.