EUROPEAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 206, 19 September 1874, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS

To September Bth. (java cable.)

Auckland, September 15. Abrived : Macgregor, s.s. She left San Francisco on tne IStli August, having been detained through the English mails having been sent via Boston instead of by New York. She left Honolulu on the 28th, and arrived at and left Kaudavauon the 10th. r ,lrser > Mr. R. B. Pringle ; mail agent, Mr. Matthews. The mail contains 25,<100 letters and B'o,ooo newspapers for New Zealand, and 132 bags for Australia. Passsougers—For Auckland : Dr. and Mrs. Buller, and Miss Kearns. For Lyttelton. Mr. C. A. Post. For Port Chalmers: Mr. and Mrs. Herman and family, Lieut. Bass, Mrs. Becker, and Mr. and Mrs. Shera. The mails are not yet landed, as the Captain refuses to give them up uulil the subsidy is paid. Later. The mail dispute is still unsettled. Negotiations are still proceeding, but the Post Oflice authorities do not expect to receive the mails for two or three hours. The Customs authorities have ordered that ue coals shall be W on board, the Macgregor pending the settlement. The A.S3P. Co. have served a writ, on the ship Macgregor for £267, for services rendered by the Star of the South while the Macgregor was on the reef at Kandavau.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

The Duke de Caze, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has complained to the British Government that Germany is seeking to quarrel with France on the question of Carlist matters iu Spain. He denies that France is conniving with the Carlists.

The inquiry into the assasination of Marshal Prim has resulted in the indictment of fifty more persons. Irish advices state that the reception of John Mitehell, the Fenian exile, on his return to Cork, was most enthusiastic. The streets were alive with bands of music and bonfires. There was a torchlight procession, in which 5000 persons took part. There has been a riot at Armagh, during a parade of Orangemen, which made it necessary for the military to clear the streets at the point of the bayonet, which caused the wounding of several persons. ■ An immense Home Rule demonstration has been held at Glasgow, and a similar demonstration took place at Dungannon. A Republic general has been captured at Vittoria by the Carlists, who, however, have suffered several reverses.

The President of Spain has thanked Germany for being the first to recognise his Government. The accounts of the famine in Asia Minor are of a very thrilling character. In one district 5000 persons have perished. Numbers of persons have had to subsist on grass for many weeks. Tiie bodies of the dead lay unburied for many days. Several villages are deserted. Bradlaugh and others have addressed 50,(XX) miners.

Eight hundred and six persons formerly connected with the Commune have been arrested at Versailles.

European crops are satisfactory. Respecting the war bet ween China and Russia, advices state that. China has pushed forward 190.000 picked troops to the Cashar frontier, has garrisoned all the frontier towns, and intends attacking Cashar, iu the event of which Russia will aid the latter State. The New Zealand Trust and Loan Co. has declared a dividend of £'s per share. A thunderstorm in London flooded the streets, and several persons were killed by lightning. •

The Emperor of Russia has presented £lOOO for distribution among the metropolitan charities. Great distress prevails at Florence, and arrests have been made of persons connected with bread riots. Advices from India state that the Bengal famine is still very serious. Il will lafive months before the rice harvest is gathered. The death rate is fearful, and in some districts the suffering is very great. The House of Lords struck out of the Public Worship Regulation Bill a clause authorising parishioners to appeal to the Archbishop iu the event of any Bishop refusing to suppress Ritualistic practices in a diocese.

After Bazaine’s escape a knotted rope was found stretching from the top of the precipice to the sea, and stained with blood, as if from Bazaine’s hands. Madame Bazaine has published a letter stating that she alone, with her cousin, planned the escape. Bazaine is in Brussels, and his extradition will probably be demanded. Some assert that the rope was put over the rock with a view to mislead the authorities, and take off suspicion from the guards through whose connivance it is believed the escape was accomplished.

Bluff, September 16. Arrived: Otago, s.s. She left Melbourne on the 10th inst., bringing 83 passengers. London, September 1. The Australian mails via Brindisi were delivered iu Loudon yesterday. September 3. Mr. George Berkely has been appointed Governor of Western Australia, vice Weld. Tallerman’s Meat Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. The Australian-Arctic explorers arrived in Norway after abandoning the expedition. They report travelling in sledges over mountain ridges beyond latitude 80. The Great Eastern has completed the laying of the new cable. The Marquis of Ripon has adopted Catholicism, and resigned the Grand Mastership of the Masons. At the wool sales, 100,000 bales were sold, principally to the home trade. The tone of the market is now weaker. Blaine and Co., wool brokers, report on the scries an advance on superior washed half-bred of Id to ljd; on greasy half-bred, |d to Id ; greasy merino, |d. W r heal is at a steady decline ; Adelaide, 55s to 58s.

Flour, 37s to 43s per 2801bs. September 5. Arrived : Loch Marie, from Melbourne; Hudson. Red Gauntlet, Robert Burns, Dallam Tower, and Abbey. Paris, September 5.

A disturbance occurred in the Department of Meuse on the 4th. The gendar-

merie intervened, when one rioter was killed and nineteen wounded. Slight demonstrations took place in other places, and at Lyons several arrests were made. Madrid, September 4. The Tabala Cabinet has resigned, and a new Ministry formed under Sagasta, with Badaya as Minister of War. The Ministerial offices of Finance, Colonies, and •Foreign remain unchanged. The Carlists have abandoned Pingcerda. The" Carlists at Qualaria fired at a German gun-boat, which replied by sending twenty-four shells into the town. Prussia, September 8. An extensive conflagration at Meininge destroyed half the town, rendering 3000 persons houseless. New York, September 1.

The Committee having investigated the charge preferred by Filton against the Rev. W r ard Beecher, acquitted him.