EUROPEAN NEWS
To July 30.
(By Submarine Cable, via Australia.) z SIR DONALD M'LEAN. GERMANY THREATENS FRANCE. . BRITISH FLEET ORDERED TO PANAMA. FIRE AT LIVERPOOL. DISASTROUS FLOODS IN AMERICA. 200 PERSONS DROWNED. THE CARLIST WAR. Greymouth, August 9. The s.s. Alhambra arrived to-day from Melbourne, and was tendered this morning. She reports leaving Hobson’s Bay on the Ist inst. London, July 24. The House of Commons has voted unanimously an annual income of £15,000 to Prince Leopold. The prorogation of Parliament is to take place on the eighth of August. July 25. Donald M'Lean, C.M.G., Native Minister of New Zealand, has been created K.C.M.G., and Colonel Ward, the Deputy Master of the Melbourne Mint, a Companion of the Order. A good harvest is reported. July 28. It is asserted that the German Ambassador has notified to the French Government the intention of Germany to send a squadron to the north of Spain, unless there is a more rigorous surveillance on the frontier. The British fleet in the Pacific has been ordered to rendezvous at Panama, to enforce payment by the Republic of Guatemala, of an indemnity of £lO,OOO to Mr. Magee, the British Consul of San Jose. The landing-stage at Liverpool, half-a mile long, has been entirely destroyed by fire.
Berlin, July 22. The police have closed several Catholic Societies in Berlin.,
New York, July 27. Most disastrous floods have occurred in Pennsylvania. The loss of life is appalling. Pittsburg and Alleghany are inundated. July 28. It has been ascertained that over 200 persons have perished by the floods in Pennsylvania.
Spain, July 28. The Carlist war is increasing in vindictiveness. Several Carlist partisans have been arrested and imprisoned at Barcelona, as reprisals for shooting prisonersby General Dorregaraty.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 196, 15 August 1874, Page 2
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