Miscellaneous.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 147, 24 June 1887, Page 5

Miscellaneous.

The Queen's route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey on the 21st in st. has been revised and extended. Windows along the line ot march are letting for £40 and single first floor rooms for £50. Americans are credited with being the highest bidders and with forcing pricee up. The President of the Cambridge University Club asks individual members of the University to subscribe to send a Cambridge team to compete with Harvard's in America.

Turkey has formally ceded the Island of Cyprus to England. Lord Colin Campbell's schedule in bankruptcy shows L 9,000; for divorce costs, L 6,000. Sir Charles Dilke, in an article in the "New Fortnightly Review," praises the stand taken by Australian delegates to the Colonial Conference on the New Hebrides question, and says but for them Salisbury would have yielded to the French demands.

Parnell has somewhat recovered health, but is still precarious. Doctors advise perfect rest at the seaside. The disease, it is said, is cancer in the stomach. Heavy fire, Hamburg, June 2nd, burned Harbner's Quays, and British vessels, Gladiator and City of Dortmund. Mr Sexton is seriously ill in Dublin. He was nominated on June 2nd, by Lar- Jnellites as Lord Mayor of that city.

There was a tremendous fight between the Russian coal miners at Bach mouth, and lifty English brewers on June Ist. Three of the latter were killed in defending a brewery.