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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 85, 6 September 1873, Page 3

The Legitimists in France have offered the title of King to the Count de Chambord, which he has accepted. Two thousand insurgents were marched on Madrid. They were attacked by Republican troops, and utterly routed. Don Carlos fled. The insurrection is considered to be crushed.

A Spanish vessel has seized the British steamer Deerhound, while engaged in landing arms for the Carlisle. It was the Deerhound that picked up Captain Sernmes of the Alabama. Typhoid fever prevails in parts of London. The crew of the Deerhound are to be tried as pirates. There was a difference of no less than £281,000 between the highest and lowest tender for the erection of the new Law Courts in London. The highest was £1,000,000, and lowest £719,000. Cholera is spreading in Hamburg and Berlin. The wool sales closed firm. Victorian greasy, Is 6d; hot water washed, 2s 7id, cold water washed, 2s s|d. The Japanese have decided to call six days of their new week Light, Moon, Fire, Water, Metal, and Earth.

The Belgian Government has stationed a cruiser off Ostend in order to prevent English fishermen from encroaching on the Belgian fishery grounds. Reports from the Bordeaux and Burgundy wine districts state that most of the vines were frozen during the late cold nights. The prospects of the champagne vintage arc also seriously imperilled. At a grand banquet at the Freemason’s Hall, London, the Marquis of Ripon was for the fourth time installed Grand Master of England. In Bavaria, a Roman Catholic priest has been condemned to two months’ imprisonment for having, in sacred garb, read from the pulpit to his congregation a catalogue of all the sins of the village schoolmaster.