EUROPEAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 213, 14 October 1874, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS

To September 30th.

(java cable.) Bluff, October 6. The Gothenburgh arrived at 6 a.m. today, having left Melbourne at 4 p.m. on the 30th ultimo. She brings 7 saloon, 27 steerage passengers, 110 rams, and 159 tons of cargo for all ports. London, September 25. Mr. Disraeli’s contemplated visit to Ireland has been indefinitely postponed. He is suffering from bronchial affection. September 26. The Prince of Wales has accepted the Grand Mastership of the Freemasons. Money is tightening. Bank rate, 3 per cent.

The wool and wheat markets are unchanged. September 28. The Australian mail via Brindisi was delivered to-day. Pabis, September 25. In a speech recently, M. Thiers said with the help of Casimer Perier, he will found a Republic. Beblin, September 25. Dr. Conrad Morten, Bishop of Roderbort has been condemned to three months imprisonment for a pastoral he issued last March. It is denied at Berlin that Denmark remonstrated at the expulsion of the Danish agitators from Schleswig, and it is declared that the expulsion of foreigners from German territory cannot occasion diplomatic action. Hong Kong, September 29. There has been an awful typhoon here, which has occasioned the foundering of eight ships, and many vessels are missing. The damage to property is immense, and the loss of life estimated at 1000.

London, September 21. A Vienna paper asserts that the King of Denmark rejected the proposals of Bismarck to enter the German federation. Prince Gortschakoff, Russian Chancellor, has recognised the right of service to conclude a commercial treaty. September 22.

The Republic of Guatemala saluted the British flag, and paid an indemnity of twenty thousand pounds for an outrage on the Vice-Consul Magee. New Yobk, September 21. An alarming conflagration has taken place at Cotton Mill Fall Liver, Massachussetts. Forty persons were killed. Beblin, September 22. The Berlin Press, whilst justifying the expulsion of Danish agitators from Schleswig, affirms a friendly disposition by Germany towards Denmark.

Melboubne, September 30. Hospital Sunday was unfortunately very wet, and collections at all the churches and elsewhere were sadly interfered with. All the amounts were below the average, and the aggregate was probably not much more than £3OOO. A fire at the Cairon timber yards destroyed property to the value of £2500. Last month the Californian mail reached San Francisco three days ahead of the time.

By last mail the Government received intimation that an Act has been passed by the Imperial Parliament, remedying the difficulty experienced in the MountMorris case. The Act confers on Colonial Courts the same jurisdiction over offences committed on the high seas as if committed in the colonies.

Poor Hattie Shepparde (Mrs. Hallam), whose husband is now with the Allen Opera Troupe, is now dead and buried, not having survived her confinement. She is much mourned, and her funeral was a large one.

Sydney, September 30. The Postal and Cable Conference commences sitting to-morrow. Delegates from Queensland will be present. The s.s. Cyphrenes steamed for California on Saturday.

The Intercolonial gig race was won easily by New South Wales. The distance was four miles, which was pulled over in 21 min. 59 sec.

Bishop Tuffnel has resigned the bishopric of Brisbane, having accepted a living in Essex, in England.