LATE EUROPEAN NEWS. ("AGE" SPECIAL CABLES.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1515, 21 March 1882, Page 2

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS. ("AGE" SPECIAL CABLES.)

Berlin, March 10. During a visit which he paid to Berlin Academy, to-day, the Emperor slipped as he was descending the steps, and fell heavily. His Majesty was somewhat seriously bruised, and is now confined to his room.

London, March 7. The Select Committee of Lords, appointed to enquire into the working of the Irish Land Act has commenced to take evidence, and has examined the Secretary of Land Commission. Obituary: Earl Wilton, aged 83 years. One of the Eton College boys who pummelled the would-be assassin, McLean, for which he received the special thanks of Her Majesty, was a son of Sir Samuel Wilson. March 18. The Budget proposes to abolish import duties on cotton, and reduce tax on salt. Proposals are also submitted for the extension of free trade. The deficiency this year reaches £4,000,000, but revenue of next year is estimated as yielding £66,500,000, leaving a small surplus. The outlay in connection with the late Afghan war amounted to nearly £20,000,000. Disastrous floods in the valley of the Missisipi are increasing, and have caused further destruction of property. Many people are starving. Several huts were found in St Petersburg filled with explosives. The Sultan has ordered Hobart Pasha to place the Turkish fleet in a thorough state of efficiency, and be ready for any emergency in the presentstate of European complications. Two more arrests in connection with the Hatton Garden jewelry robbery, have been made at Paris. The judicial committee of the Privy Council have decided that the natural daughter of the late Mr Rhodes, Wellington, New Zealand, is entitled as ressiduary legatee, to upwards of £200,000. The Tunisian insurgents surprised a column of French troops, and killed 100. Nine Europeans have been murdered at Nairwai. Hostilities are been actively carried on between the Boers and some Zulu chiefs. Montisba Longa, one of the most powerful of the chiefs, with a large force, attacked the Boers and defeated them on two separate occasions. Moutisba Longa was killed in the second engagement. James Rourke, partner of Patrick Egan, the Irish agitator, has been placed under arrest for intimidation. The relatives of the late Earl Crawford, are employing clairvoyants, in order to discover the body of the Earl. The persons arrested charged with the murder of the two bailiffs, whose bodies were found in Lough Mark, hrve been discharged, the evidence being insufficient to secure conviction. They are, however, still kept in custody as suspects. March 13. Mason, who fired at Guiteau whilst being conveyed from the court to prison during his trial, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Outrages at Cork are f requent. The Pu>man Catholic Archbishop of Dublin has issued another pastoral against secret societies. In County Kerry a man named Fallon and his wife were shot at. It is feared they are fatally wounded. The ringleander of the anti- Jewish riots in Warsaw has been tried and found guilty. He will probably be sentenced to a slight punishment.

Tenders are invited by Messrs Keals and Son, architects, Auckland, up to the 29th inst., for the erection of a dwelling-house at Cambridge. , ' Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co. will, sell at the Cambridge Yards on Thursday, March 23rd, fat' cattle, fat' sheep, dairy cows, store cattle, &c. On April 6th, they will sell at Ohaupo, fat and store cattle, dairy stock, horses, sheep, Sec. They will also-have for i private sale on arrival, about the zBth, inst, a draft of crossbred wethers, mostly fat, from Napier. On Saturday, April 1, they will hold a sale of horses at their new horse bazaar at Cambridge. TiMES^cannot be so very bad, at least in Yorkshire, .where all -Sir George Woriibwell's fanns'are well let at a reduction of rt only.-10 per cent: j^and.^whenj one of tUemi, recently yacamt,.,was keenly competed fqr by tbree^exwllerit tenants".