EUROPEAN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 385, 26 August 1874, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS.

The Scotch team won tho Eleho Shield at the Wimbledon meeting. England was second, and Ireland was third. The English Insurance Company have lost a case before the Court of Exchequer, in which a question whether a policy holder had a right to travel without the Company's permission was concerned. Dr. Beasley insured his life for £1000 sterling, and west to New Zealand and died. His heirs were refused the mouoy on the ground that the Company had not allowed him to go to New Zealand, but the Court compelled them to p«,y. Mr. Gladstone's wife has inherited property to the extent of £15,000 per annum, by the death of her brother. The London papers say the Liberal party will lose its leader in conseqnence. Mr. Gladstone is pro posing to take his ease in Italy. Nothing has yet been heard of the Anstrian expedition which'started for the Polar Seas in the ship Legthoff two years ago. All travellers and seamen who may have received any news with reference to the expedition are requested by the Austrain Government to communicate with the Foreign Office. Vienna, or with the Admiralty, St. Petersburgh. London telegrams to July 24bh say that an alarming outbreak of the smallpox has taken place at Newmarket. Upwards of sixty cases were already reported. The authorities asked the Jockey Club to permit them to convert the grad-stand into a hospital where afflicted persons might be quartered. Mr. John Mitchell arrived at Cork, on July 17. He is ill, but will go to Dublin. The Fenian Amnesty Association walked at a torchlight processipn. A banquet will be given in his honour.' The committee of the Agricultural Labourers TJnion, London, adopted resolutions declaring that : "As we are not justified in appealing to the public for support for locked-out laborers in the Eastern Counties during harvest, therefore we offer them the alternative of emigration or depending on their own resources." The committee is negotiating for easier terms for emigration to Canada. Messrs. Goscell Bro?., cotton merchants, Liverpool, have failed. Liabilities, 480,000 dollars. A special despatch to the " Daily News •' reports destruction by floods in Moravia. Two hundred persons diel, and many houses were swept away.

A man, named William Arthur Haselup, was, taken into custody at Waipori, charged with obtaining money at Naseby, St. Bathans and Blackstone Hill on various pretences. Boston has produced a new reading of the old ? proverb, " A rolling stone gathers no moss." It is "A revolving fragment of the palaeozoic age collects no cryptogamous vegetation." The "New Zealand Times" hears from Dunedin that his Honor the Superintendent, Mr. Macandrew, lias recommended the appointment of Mr. J. L. Gillies, M.H.R., to the office of Secretary to the Harbour Board, at a salary of £500. The "Times" gives a long and highly interesting account of the preparations at Greenwich for the observation of the transit of Venus in December next. The Astronomer Royal has chosen five principal stations for our share of the enterprise, viz., Honolulu, Rodriguez Island, near the Mauritius ; Christmas Harbour, in Eerguelen Land ; Christchurch, New Zealand ; Alexandria. To each of these will be sent a party consisting of a chief astronomer in charge, one or more solar photographers, and several assistant astronomers. Other parties will be ssnt to the three subsidiary stations. The instrumental outfit is said to be the largest and most perfect of its kind..which has ever been brought together, The telescopes will be driven by clockwork in such a manner as to remain steadfastly fixed on the sun after having been once pointed to it, thus leaving the free use of his hands for other purposes. The most trustworthy observations hitherto ■ made leave an uncertainty in the computation of the sun's distance from the earth of about 90,000, miles, The observations of next December will probably result in the determination of the, distance within 50,000 miles. As already stated, France, Germany, America and Russia will cooperate in this great undertaking, and " altogether there will be at least 70 or 80 stations scattered over the illuminated side of the earth, from which between the hours of about half-past one and half -past six, Greenwich time, on -the morning of the 9th of December, a small army of as"trenomers will be anxiously scanning, measuring, and photographing the movements over the sun's face -of the little black spot which is to afford us a solution of one of the sublimest problems of the universe. HoLXOWA's's PILXS — Jn" the oomplaii a pc uliar to females fhese Pjlla are uurlvalleu. Tli eir use by the fair sex has become so univeral for the removal of their ailments that cew toilets are withouf them. Amongst all classes, from the domestic servant to the peerrss, distinguifched favour is accorded to those fenovating Pills ; their invigorating and purifying properties render them safe and invalu able in all cases ; they may bo taken by females of all ages for any disorganisation or irregularity of the system, speedily removing fcha cause, and restoring the sufferer to robust health. As a family medicine they are invaluable for subduing the maladies of young and old. < 5