EUROPEAN CALOGRAMs.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 953, 1 August 1878, Page 2

EUROPEAN CALOGRAMs.

[rkutek's special ca.ulkc.uum.] LONDON, July 2U. Tho Marquis of Lorno has been offered aud. has accepted the Governor-Generalship of (Jauada. There has been more hard lighting' iv the Transvaal. The British lo^s is reported severe. July 27. At the Mansion House banquet the Eavl of Bddconstbld defended

tho Turkish conveu'ion ou the ground thit the Berlin Treity wa* insufficient of itself to maiuhiin European peace. VIENNA, July 30. An Austrian-Hungarian army haa euttred Bosnia a nil Herzegovina. Vera Sassaleitch, t h 3 girl who attempted to as3a«rinvte the head of the Russian Police, received an ovation at Go;iova. At a dinnoi* given to her, she said she was a devoted Revolutionist The Russian people, she said, are fast beeomiug uudeceivod. The blood shod m the late war was the last that would be shed m combats instigated by the ambition of Prince?. The next combat would be that of the people against Kings. PARIS, July 29. Two hundred and sixty-nine Communists are, albwed a commutation or remission of punish men t in honor of the Exposition. At the same time the poor of Paris had 12,000 francs distributed among them. LONDON, July 30. Six hundred Mormons sailed from Liverpool. A paper is posted at all the cotton mills m the Stockport district, giving a fortnight's notice of five per cent, reduction of wages. The operatives seem m favor of resistance. A strike there would affect 24,000 people. There are increasing conspiracies against the SaltaD. A tunnel at Selwelen, m Germany, fell m, buryiug twenty-seven people. Large forces are massing on the frontier, to protect the territory against brigandage. The Culuinbia College crew won the Visitors Challenge Cup at Harvey Regatta, on the Thames. A Synod of Catholics earned a resolution m favour of marriage by the clergy. It is rumoured that the Princess Tuyra marries Louis Napoleon, and the Princess Beatrice tbe new Duke of Cumberland. BERLIN (undated). Telegrams call attention to endless prosecutions for treasonable utterances and seditious crimes Though hundreds are punished for publicly regretting the failure of the attempts on the Emperor's life,there is still no cessation of similar offences. AMERICA (undated). Indian disturbances are assuming serious proportions. A large reinforcement of troops is placed m the field. . <*. . — 1