EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Kumara Times, Issue 545, 26 June 1878, Page 2

EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

[PRESS AGENCY.] London, May 10. The Prince of Wales on visiting die Colonial Courts at the Paris Exhibition, is said to have greatly d-lighted the Colonials by holding out the prospect of a not distant visit to the antipodes.

It has been finally arranged that the Duke of Edinburgh shall continue in the Mediteranean.

The Duchess returns to Russia oh a visit to her parents. The Bishop Selwyn Memorial Committee have resolved to erect a monument in Lichfield Cathedral, and to found a Selwyn College at Cambridge, to include provision for the education of mission students. Liberal subscrip* tions are flowing in. An impressson generally prevails that the Ministers will appeal to the country at the close of the present session, which will be abridged, whether there be peace or war. '

By a terrible squall which passed along Biscay and the Coast on the 20th ult., 80 boats were destroyed and 320 men and boys perished.

A boiler explosion took place at the Dublin Foundry on April 27th. About 20 lives were lost, and the premises reduced to ruins.

The unfortunate Eurydice is still at the bottom of the’sea. All attempts to raise her have proved unsuccessful. There is much grumbling at the want of skill displayed. The number of persons dependant on those who perished is estimated at about 300, to relieve whom £20,000 .will be required, aud nearly that amount has already been raised.

Advices from the Cape continue disquieting. Fighting from day to-day is reported farm one quarter and another, with indecisive results in each encounter. Fifty or sixty Kaffirs are killed, and sheep and cattle taken, but the enemy retires into 1 his fortress, and so prolongs the contest. It has required £19.000 a week to afford a. moderate amount by relief to the distressed people on account of the strike in Lancashire.