NEWS SUMMARY. [Dates from Europe up to June 2nd.]

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 1

NEWS SUMMARY. [Dates from Europe up to June 2nd.]

The President of the Cambridge University Club asks individual members of the University to subscribe to send a Cambridge team to compete with Harvard's in America. Turkey has formally ceded the Island of Cyprus to England. Lord Colin Campbells schedule in bankruptcy shows L 9,00 0; for divorce costs, L 6.000. Sir Charles Dilke, in an article in the "New Fortnightly Roview," praises the stand taken by Australian delegates to the Colonial Conference on the New Hebrides question, and says but for them Salisbury would have yielded to the French demands. Evictions continue at Bodyke and elsewhere in Ireland. Fathers Kelly, Ryan, Slattery, recalcitrant witnesses, Averc released from Kilmainham Gaol on the 21st of May. Parnell has somewhat recovered health, but is still precai-ious. Doctors advise perfect rest at the seaside. The disease, it is said, is cancer in the stomach. Heavy fire, Hamburg, June 2nd, burned Harbner's Quays, and British vessels, Gladiator and City of Dortmund. Czar of Russia was fired at by a student diving Cossack festivities ot Novochernash, May 50. Mr Sexton is seriously ill in Dublin. He was nominated on June 2nd, by Parnellites as Lord Mayor of that city. Dispatch from India May 16th, mentions discovery of hoarded treasure in palace, j Gwalior, £5,000,000 ; Indian Government took possession. Heavy floods in Hungary and Germany have wrought devastation. British settlements in Gold coast, Africa, were attacked by natives, June 3rd, and were beaten off with great loss of life. There was a tremendous fight between the Russian coal miners at Racbmouth, and tifty English brewers on June Ist. Three of the latter wore killed in defending a brewery.