LATE TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3690, 19 December 1874, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(Per Wonga Wonga.) • GENERAL SUMMARY. 1 London, October 31. 1 The cession of the Fiji Islands is generally f approved by the Press. 1 The sudden death of Mr Eddy on the platform of the Glasgow railway station, while attending the Social Science Congress, produced i a profound and painful sensation amongst colonists at Home. The cause of death was > chronic heart disease. J Two thousand two hundred and sixty two 1 emigrants have been forwarded to New Zealand during September. - A true bill for libel has been returned against Dr Kenealy, the prosecutrix being Mrs • Pittendrey, a witness against the claimant in L the late trial. L 1 FOREIGN NEWS. ; A union between Russia and France on the j Eastern question is on the tapis. > . Thei e have been great defection and mutinies m the Carhest ranks. Carlist atrocities are unr abated. Ihe rumor of Germany interfering is j revived, but not credited. The arrest of Count Arnim is generally con- ’ demned in German political circles. ) vr- A gainful sensation has been caused at Vienna by the publication of a pastoral by the Cardinal Archbishop, charging Germany with • endeavoring to extirpate Christianity. - • lhe m, uv^ tigaiion re Nana Sahib is proceedmg. The Cawnpore evidence is conflicting. By an earthquake at Cubal 7,000 lives were 1 lost. LATE TELEGRAMS, mi i. London, November 17. i The ship Isabella Kerr is supposed to have ; foundered at sea. ' V<?st pbalian ladies have been fined IUJ thalers, or three weeks’ imprisonment, for ■ presenting an address to the Bishop of Munster. Private bmith has confessed to the murder of Captain Bird, and has been executed. ' . Invercargill, December 19. T T „ lnornin o Judge Chapman sentenced d-hu Brennan, who pleaded guilty to attempting to murder Mary Hall, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. In answer to the u ual question, prisoner said, “ I have nothing to say. In courtesy I say nothing about it.”