LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1695, 17 May 1883, Page 3

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Thb .following, items of news cabled to Australian papers are per the Manapouri at the Bluff. They aro up to May Bth :— It is reported that 5000 French convicts will shortly be despatched in Noumea. The constitution which was assented to by the Khedive has been officially proclaimed. Mr Harold has been appointed one of the directors of the Australian Steam Navigation Company. Her Majesty's man-o-war Merlin has been commissioned for service on the Australian naval station. The British and Anstralian Trust and Loan Company has declared a dividend of 7 per cent. Latest advices from Russia state that the Czar has finally determined that his coronation shall take place on the 27th inst. It bas been decided by the German Government to refer the budget to a commission under the presidency of Prince Bismarck. Prince Gleorge, the second son of the Prince of Wales, has sailed for Canada as a midshipman on board a British man-of-war. In a leading article published in its issue of this morning, the Standard proteats against the proposed duplication of the Suez Canal. In consequence of the unsettled condition of affairs in Armenia, brought on by Turkish misrule, Russia is massing troops on the frontier. It is stated that Patrick Delaney, one of the men connected with the Phoenix Park murders, will probably be reprieved on the 2nd inst. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to death. O'Donovan Rossa has commenced an agitation in the United States, with a view to arousing the dynamite faction of the Fenian party to a renewal of their explosive tactics. Lords Wolseley and Alcester have agreed to accept a lump sum in place of the pension of £2000 per annum which Government proposes to pay them in consideration of their services in the Egyptian War. It is probable that M. Tirard, Minister of Finance in the French Cabinet, will be aj^pointed Consul-General at Algiers, anti that his seat in the Cabinet will be filled by the appointment of M. Leon Say. A discussion on the proposed annexation of New Guinea arose in the House of Lords on Friday night. In the course of the debate Earl Carnarvon and Earl Northbrook expressed their admiration of the zeal and activity displayed by the Australian colonies in endeavouring to extend the limit of her Majesty's possessions. The Indemnity Commission, which was appointed to consider the claims preferred by the residents of Alexandria, on account of damage to their property by the bombardment of the town by the British, has sent in its report. The commission recommends that a sum of £645,000 be voted for the purpose of meeting claims. In the French Chamber of Deputies, in reply to the Ducde Broglie, M. ChallemelLacour, Minister for Foreign Affairs, admitted that Germany, Austria, and Italy, had entered into a tiiplc alliance hostile to France. He added, however, that he attached no importance to the alliance, as he considered that it would not injuriously affect tho interests of France.

The grease-spot man tried to sell an old larly a bottle of his lightning eradicator, but she told him she hadn't any lightning to eradicate. Pretty girls arc like confectionery in more ways than ohc. They are sweet ; they are expensive ; and they are conducive to heartburn, A woman who had acted as a small carrier in a country distiictin Scotland lost her "cuddie" by death. The old woman was in a bad way about her loss. One Sunday she suddenly left the parish church. The minister, calling in a day or so on, remarked. "I noticed, Mrs Jones, you left thp church on Sunday. Was anything wrong V "Wcel minister, I was much affected, ye see, when ye warmed up to your subject and got to the height of your argument, your voice reminded nio that much of my pmr wee dead "cudclie."