EUROPEAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 225, 25 November 1874, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

[By Submarine -Cable via Australia.] Auckland, November 21. Abbived : Wonga-Wonga, from Sydney, with the English and American mails.

The Tichborne Claimant has been visited at the Newbank Prison by- his wife. Lord Livers and Dr. Kinneally. The Claimant has lost 7 stone in weight, and his hair is grey, but he is in the enjoyment of good health.

Mr. Bright has refused to present the petition to the House of Commons for the n base of Orton, and for which he Jias been abused by Lord Onslow and Mr. Meredith.

H.M.S. Sappho has been commissioned for Australia, but has met with an accident which will detain her for some little time. The Daring 4 guns, has also been appointed for the Australian station. A published statement that the Queen has paid the debts of the Prince of Wales has been declared void of foundation no debts are outstanding above what, during the year, will be discharged. Lord Stanley is.busy with the preparation for a scientific investigation of Africa.

Another expedition to the interior of Africa is being prepared,at]Berlin, under the leadership of You Stormayer the ornithologist.

The Liverpool women have commenced a whiskey war, and are praying that the hearts of the Licensing Magistrates may be inclined to withhold licenses.

The proposal to substitute cremation for interment at Hartlepool, has provoked a riot among a crowd of wiorking women.

Mr. Turnbull a solicitor who made the proposition, was followed from the Town Hall with the exeerationsiof two thousand excited people. A formidable strike threatened in the cotton trade is supposed will be averted by a spirit of mutual conciliation. For several days 24 mills at Bolton were closed, 13,000 persons were thrown out of work. The employers then withdrew the notices of reduction of wages, and the hands resumed work.

Harvest being over, some farmers are locking out the laborers belonging to the Union, while others are reducing wages to the old standard on the plea of cheap bread.

Three hundred souls chiefly from Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, have sailed for New Zealand.

One thousand persons principally from the Eastern counties have left for Canada under LTnion auspices. The safety of the whole Austrian arctic expedition (with one exception only) has occasioned great joy. Preparationshave already been commenced to send a fresh expedition next summer to ascertain whether the newly discovered land is part of the continent or an island. Captain Wiggings who started in June last in the steamer Diana ter search for the lost Austrian expedition has just returned to Dundee.

The Petroleum springs in Austria caught fire, and the conflagration did immense damage.

The cattle plague has broken out in Russian Poland; 1000 cattle have perished in two days. r Russia is augmenting her standing army' by 160,000 for service in Asia, and to render conscriptions less distasteful concessions have been made regarding hair and beards,

The Tartars are rapidly emigrating from Crimea to escape military service.

An insurrection has broken out in Bhokand ; Russia declines to interfere. Tiie position of the Khan is considered desperate.