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Kumara Times, Issue 1150, 5 June 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, May 9. The election of Scotch Peers to rc-« present the Scottish Lords in Parliament, resulted in the choice of 15 Conservatives and one Liberal. England intends to hold Austria to a strict compliance with the Treaty of Berlin, and will require the ultimate evacuation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, being in favor of the development and independence of these nationalities. Dr Pearson is consecrated Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales. It is announced that a steamer which touched off Kundy Island, at the entrance of the British Channel, named Helena, has a cargo of 15,000 rifles, four million cartridges, and a torpedo launch. . These were, to be landed in Crete, about the end of May, when a revolution is to break out in various parts of the Island. Two passengers are Cretan agents, entrusted with the purchase of arms. This, as some American correspondents say, was intended for a raid on Cuba. In the event of the law not allowing Bradlaugli to make an affirmation instead of taking the oath registered by members of the House, a Bill will mediately be introduced to legalise stfilfl an affirmation. AMERICA. James Cook, a clown, well known both in Europe and America, died in New York on the 28th ult. His real name was Pat Kayn. He was Irish by birth. He refused the last rites of the Catholic Church, saying Masonry was a good enough religion for him, and as he had lived in the Order he would die in it. Hartmann, the Russian Nihilist, and

here of the Moscow explosion, is being interviewed by the New York Press. CANADA. , bar rooms in New Brunswick, have beCh closed by the Temperance Act. Colonel W. J. Lovell is commanding, in the absence of General M‘Dougall, the British forces in Nova Scotia. GERMANY. Princess Pauline, of Wurtemberg, is to be married to Mr Young, physician. Her father gave his consent, but insisted that she take the name of Fraulein Yon Kirchbick. The marriage of the Princess of Hanover to her father’s secretary has Caused ■a good deal of sensation in the higher circles. Hartmagh, a Socialist journeyman ’shoemaker, has been elected to the Reichstag. A Berlin correspondent says that the discontent in Germany may be judged by the tide of emigration. It is estimated that during the past 39 years two and a half million people have emigrated. FRANCE. Edmon De Prissence, Protestant DiVine of Paris, has been appointed Secretary of the Legation of Washington.