EUROPEAN TOPICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 9092, 1 May 1890, Page 5

EUROPEAN TOPICS.

~ j [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHTS ] j [Special to Press Association.] j i LKecoived April 30, afc 12.55 p.m.J ! LISBON, April 2D. \ Portugal is following the example | set by England, and is building gun- j boats suitable for the navigation of j the Shire and Zambesi rivers. ; England and America are insisting i upon Portugal referring tho Delagoa j Eailway dispute to arbitration. | HEELIN', April 29, ] Bismarck will shortly leave on a I visit to Scotland. ! Germany has offered a protest to j the projected conversion of the | Turkish debt. j The Emperor* William is at present on a visit to Eisenach, in Central Germany. ST PETERSBURG, April 29. The Russian Press is commenting on the danger which would accrue to the Russian Empire through China throwing iu her lot with England, and lending her assistance in case of I an outbreak of war. j The order committing Schmidt, who is alleged to have betrayed the plans of the fortresses of Cronstradt, to penal servitude in Siberia has been countermanded, and he was shot. It was ascertained that he secretly divulged Russia’s scheme for mobilising her troops in the event of war with Austria.

[Seceivad April 30, at 1.30 p.m.] VIENNA, April 29. An agrarian agitation, has broken out in Galicia. fSecoivsd April 30, at 8 p.m. [ PARIS. April 29. Lord Lytton, British Ambassador at Paris, has notified the French Government that England desires the regulation of October, 1889, relative to tho salvage of wrecked vessels, made applicable to Queensland. [Received May 1, at 1.80 a.m,] LONDON, April 80. The Emperor William of Germany will pay a visit to Queen "Victoria in the autumn. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs that a Royalist conspiracy in Paris to take place on May 1 has been discovered.