EUROPEAN NEWS TO 12th SEPTEMBER.
LONDON. 2nd September. The Australian mails via Brindisi were delivered in London yesterday. 3rd September. Mr George Berkeley has been appointed Governor uf Western Australia, vice Weld. The Austrian-Arctic explorers arrived in Norway after abandoning the expedition. They report travelling in sledges over mountain ridges beyond latitude 80. The Great Eastern has completed the laying of the uew cable. The Marquis of Ripon has resigned the the position of Grand Master of the Freemasons, having joined the Roman Catholic Church. 9th September. The Government of New Zealand has announced its temporary withdrawal from the San Francisco and Singapore mail services. Sir H. R. Storks and Lord George Manners are dead. 11th September. A terrible collision has taken place on the Great Eastern Railway, by which nineteen persons were killed, and thirty injured. 12th September. Mr Disraeli has stated that it is probable that Fiji will be annexed. A settlement of £15,000 a year has been voted !or Prince Leopold. The Duke of Richmond has given notice that he intends to abolish forthwith all betting on the Goodwood course. A baronetcy has been conferred on the Lord Mayor of London. , PARIS. sth September, A disturbance occurred in the Department of Meuse on the 4th. The gendarmerie intervened, when one rioter was killed and nineteen wounded. Slight demonstrations took place in other places, and at Lyons several arrests were made. BERLIN. Bth September. An extensive conflagration at Meininge destroyed half the town, rendering 3,00/ persons houseless. MADRID. 4th September. The Tabala Cabinet has resigned, and a new Ministry formed under Sagasta, with Badaya as Minister of War. The Ministerial offices of Finance, Colonies, and Foreign remain unchanged. The Carlists have abandoned' Pingcerda. The Carlists at Qnalaria fired at a German gun-boat, whicn replied by sending twentyfour shells into the town. 9th September. The Marquis de la Sernahas been appointed to the chief command of the army of the North. The defeat of Pingcerda has greatly discouraged the Carlists, who have also been defeated at Arragon. 12th September The Prince of Asturias will probably be proclaimed King of Spain. The whole of Spain has been declared to be in a state of siege.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1613, 22 September 1874, Page 367
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