EUROPEAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 62, 18 June 1873, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

(FROM THE NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION, AND ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAM COMPANY.) London, May 21. In committee in the House of Lords on the Australian Customs Bill, Earl Grey proposed the exclusion of New Zealand from its operation After some observations from Lords Belmore, ' Lisgard, and Kimberley, this was negatived without a division. The Prince of Wales has left Vienna. Ho was brilliantly entertained throughout the whole of his visit. May 27. The Queen has presented to the Colony of Queensland six red deer from Windsor Forest. They were shipped in the Great Queensland to-day. The Tichbome trial is still proceeding. May 26. Miss Loder and the Wapping witnesses fully identify the claimant as Arthur Orton. May 31. The competition at the wool sales has been animated. Foreign buyers have been especially numerous. The sales concluded to-day. Tho attendance has been good throughout, competition firm, and prices well maintained to the close. Paris, May 27. M. Thiers .has joined the party of the Left > The Bonapartists support the new Government. Tranquility prevails 'everywhere. May 28. The Governfifent will pursue $ free trade policy, and will probably abandon M. Thiers’ commercial treaties. . Berlin, May 28. The Cabinet are considering the question of the recognition of Macmahon as President of France. After the receipt of the official notification from the French Government of Macmahon’s acceptance of that office, a rumor arose to the effect that it was the intention to proclaim a Republic and make Macmahon President for five years and irresponsible. Constantinople, May 23. The Russian press asserts that the Khifn of Khiva has organized a force of 14,000 men to. oppose the advance of the Russians. -» Boston, May 30. A terrible conflagration is raging here. London, May 28. The Derby was won by Mr Tatton Sykes’ Doncaster. For the second place there was & dead heat between Mr. Crawford’s Gang Forward and Mr. Saville’s Easier. The race Was a most exciting one. May 30. The Oaks was won by Mr. Merry’s Mary Stuart, Mr. Crawford’s Wild Myrtle came in second, and Mr. Johnston’s Angells third. The eldest son of the Princess Louise of HesseCassel (Princess Alice) fell from a window and was killed. June 3. A great trade union demonstration has been held in Hyde Park to protest against the laws for the punishment of workmen.

In the late wool sales, greasy softs showed a rise P 6l " lb’ received, “ three halfpenny ”) on their prices during the March scries. Paris. The Assembly has vetoed the reconstruction of the Vendome column. The Bank of France has advanced the Government 200,000,000 francs in gold for the payment of the indemnity, The German Government declines to enter into diplomatic relations with Macmahon, till assured that the new Government will faithfully adhere to the treaty. June 3.:: Macmahon authorizes Prince Napoleon to enter France, if he pleases. ■.>/;/ Madrid. g Figueras, the Spanish Premier, has announced the separation of Church and State, and t.he abolition of slavery in Cuba. i J / London. The Turkestan detachment of the Russian expeditionary force was encamped on the Khivan frontier on the 29th April. The lo?s by the recent conflagration at Boston amounted to 1,250,000 dollars.