LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.
London, Oct. 8. Princess Beatrice has been betrothed to the Marquis.of Stafford. ■ -• Prussia constructs a canal from the North Sea to the Baltic. The English Court is in. mourning for; ' the King of Sweden and Princess Holienlohn, sister to Queen Victoria. Agrarian violence continues in Ireland, and several landlords have been shot. 60,000 emigrants have left England for America. v . The wheat crop deficiency in England is estimated at thirty million bushels; Indian despatches state that Russian troops are marching to Khiva. • A collision of an Edinburgh train at Kertle bridge caused great loss of life. The station-master was arrested. A terrific coal-mine explosion occurred at Stanley ; 40 miners were killed. ; The Hilda was wrecked near South Shields, and all aboard lost. A Birmingham firm has contracted to furnish Prussia with 100,000 rifles of an ; , improved pattern. ; ; - The army is to be reorganised, and conscription abolished. The Cuban insurrectionis to be promptly quelled, and troops have been sent.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1336, 9 November 1872, Page 2
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