ARRIVAL OF THE MARIPOSA. GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to Jan. 14.)

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 8 (Supplement)

ARRIVAL OF THE MARIPOSA. GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to Jan. 14.)

Wa^ preparations by the Great Powers are aofcrve.' France aud Germany are moving "troops in every direction, Lord Salisbury's mediation was declined. Emperor William is not expected to live two months. Portugal threatens to bombard Tung!, Africa, because kho Sultan of Zanzibar refuses a concession of territory. Mandalay advices say that Thawba ia in open rebellion, destroying all the \illage q favouring the British. Sir Charles Dilka was left a fortune by a distant relative of £200,000. There was a great miners 1 strike and rioting in Blantyre, Scotland, on February 8. It was quelled atter three days. The West London Commercial Bank foiled on Pebruai'y 8. The British steamer Blair Athol foundered, on January 30, in the Black Sea. Twenty persons were drowned. Baron Denman's motion in the House of Lords, on January 31st, in favour of the Woman's Suffrage Bill, waa rejected without diecuesion. Lord Colin Campbells library , Edinbui gh, wa? sold by auction, add realised a email amount. Lord Campbell i 3 threatened with bankruptcy, and is unable to neet the coats of the suit. Heavy rioting had occurred in Dublin, on January th& 29th. The people of Adnill, an island off the coast of Mayo, had beaten off the sheriff and a posae of the police. Sir T. M. Healy was elected to Parliament on February sth for the North Di\i, sion, Longford County. The opening of Parliament on Jin, 27this repreeented as being unusual!} dull. Cholera h making tremendous ra rapes in Cfei/i, and threatens to extend to the United States. Nmmbera of Alsatians are cic^sing ioto French territory to avoid German conscription, The American cardinals arriving at Homo ■were received by Archbishop Ccve, of Melbourne.