EUROPEAN CALOGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 929, 6 June 1878, Page 2

EUROPEAN CALOGRAMS.

AUCKLAND, Hst night. The mail steamer has arrived, and brings 26 New Zealand and 10 Australian passengers. NBWS BY THE ,M AIL. - The Jiave% practically taken: Roiimahia an&^jßessarabia, th^: peasants paying tfreih taxes. Clears are entertained. ri that the Jesuit violent party.; has truimpliecl 7 at the Vatican. """'""• ■-"■- f A Sardinian r steamship was fired by a gas explosion, and burned. Forty persons were injured. Vatican negotiations with Russia have failed The Pope is suffering from inflammation of the liver. Fighting continues about Haski. 21 Mahomedan villages were destroyed, Russians aud Bulgarians being mutually blamed for the destruction. ..>*.. Recruiting m the British army is advancing,, and increased activity m Jfche dockyards. • , ; • Hea vyl failures ;at Liverpool. j lucendiary fires have occurred at jManchesteiv Two ,timbei\ yards, 'and ten houses- were burned with a lossofcSSOiOOO. . „ Shall pox epedemic m London. % ; The Turks plundered 90 Armenian villages. The Ottoman authorities refuse relief, and demand.double taxes from the impoverished villagers.. A Tuilleries. commission recommend the restoration of the Palace at a cost of four milliou francs. Orders are issaed to Prussian ipriests receiving* Government pay' to renounce salaries, or denounce German ecclesseatical laws. The Nihilist conspiracy is extending 1 m Russia. Garrisons are bsing strengthened for its suppression, p; . : )\]',': :-'■: {'"[ \y Russia refused to liberate 60,000 Turkish prisoners, pending a settlement of the war. The Puke of Edinburgh remains m the Mediterranean. Burton, the traveller, discovered valuable mines m the land of Midian. Indian troops are enthusiastic re • the expedition, «*nd are volunteering freely. A tornado at Japan destroyed thousands of houses, The Chinese army is slaughtering indiscriminately at Rashgar. The famine is unabated. A British squadron is watching Hadvotsck. The Home Rule party has split over the iLeitrim murder. A terrible typhus epidemic prevails at Stamboul. ... England is negotiating with Sweederi for a naval station at Favre Island-, m the Baltic. : Twenty thousand non - Union strikers are dependent on friends. Seventy British sfceamets, of various ports, are selected to be commissioned as cruisers. One London firm owning forty steamers offered all of them to the Government. American Communistic Societies, fully officered and drilled,' have been, discovered m Virginia. The Kearney movement is weakened by a split, and Kearney deposed; from its presidency.. The United States Court decided that Chinese are inelligible for citizenship. Canada is rapidly and extensively fortifyingThe Bennington rifle makers have suspended payment. The British Minister at Washington lias a list of Rusaiau agents and Irish agitatiors. A German attack is threatened on Canada if there is a Russian war. The House committee of immigration agree to a Bill making it a misdemeanour for a captain to introduce over fifteen Chinese. Reports show the largest crops iv the history of the States. A craft, supposed to be a Russian ! privateer, is fitting out at Frisco. German and Hamburg steamers are chartered by Russia with. Russian otticers and seamen. The Fenians at Vermont arc organising-