EUROPEAN NEWS.

Lake County Press, Volume VIII, Issue 448, 11 December 1879, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

Telegrams from Dunedin Dailies.) __ London,. December 1 \* Considerable business is doing mwool at full rates. To-day 9,029 bales were sold. New Zealand wheat is quoted at 49s per quarter (f.0.b.); tallow dull, at a slight decline;, Australian wheat, ex store, 45s to 47s per 4961b, according to quality. The Ameer is seriously indisposed.' The Ameer Yakoob Khan has been taken to Lahore to be tried on a charge, of complicity in the massacre at Cabul.. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 200,000,000qr5. The report of the indisposition of the Queen was based on a paragraph appearing in the ‘Globe,’ and is not yet confirmed. London, December 2. John Gedfroy, sen., a Hamburg: merchant, has failed for £500,000. Under-Secretary Bourke’s recent speech .at Lynn, announcing Government negotiations with the Powers in the interests of the peace of the world, caused considerable rnmm<'«t T ' : ' no.

jnd Germany arranging with France ind Austria acquiescing in a political scheme securing the control by Great Britain of Asiatic Turkey, giving fim- 1 proved seasboard to Germany, and the ! jomplete isolation of Russia. The I xmtinued collapse of Turkey will i lasten the denouement, the first probable j step being the Austrian occupation, of ! Stamboul. | It is intended to retain the Ameer of 1 Lffgham in. India, under restraint. London, December 3. An attempt to murder the Czar was made at Moscow, but he escaped uninrt. St. Petersburg, December 3l Mirski, the Nihilist, has been reprieved, and. sentenced to penal sor.viude; An unsuccessful attempt has beenmade on the life of the Emperor of lussia, who arrived at- Moscow yester!ay,; The train following with his bag:age was blown up, seven carriages »eing completely destroyedi The perletrators are unknown, but are unioubtedly Nihilists. The Emperor in eply to a deputation, presenting a coniratulatory address, thanked God for lls escape, and appealed to the aid of ds subjects in exterminating sedition. Later.—The carriages which exiloded were not railway cars, bufeordilary baggage carriages following the Jmperor in the streets of Moscow. London, December 4th. The Chiliads were defeated by the ’eruvians and Bolivians at Tarapaca, rho are continuing offensive operaions, and are now blockading Arica. Brennan, Secretary to the Land jeague. has been arrested in Dublin Or seditious language at Balia. The trial of persons recently arrested or sedition commences on the 11th iistant. St. Petersburg. December 4th. Further particulars of the attempted nassacre show that the Emperor esaped solely because the order for the leparture of the trains conveying the Smperor and the baggage respectively ras reversed, otherwise the result rould certainly have been fatal; It las been ascertained that the mine ras fired, from a house in the vicinity f the route taken by the Emperor, [he criminals escaped undetected, [he matter, has caused a.profound sen? ation., December sth, The Emperor arrived here to-day, . December 6th. Two persons, have been-arrested at loscow on suspicion of being conneced with the attempt, made on. the ,'zar’s life. [Several, words previously omitted i transmission show that the railroad o Moscow had been tunnelled, and lie explosion fired as the train.passed ver.j