EUROPEAN TOPICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9492, 14 August 1891, Page 5

EUROPEAN TOPICS.

SERYIA. THE DISTRESS IN RUSSIA. [Special to Press Association.] [Received August 13, at 10.20 a.m.] ST PETERSBURG. August 12. Russia has forbidden a proposed Polish pilgrimage to the tomb of St Louis, in Rome. The Government has assigned the sum of thirty million roubles, with which to carry on the relief works and the purchase of grain. VIENNA, August 12. The Emperor cordially received the young King of Servia at Iscbl. After a brief visit tho latter joins his father at Munich, And the two then proceed to Paris. There is much comment at the action of the King of Servia, when in Sb Petersburg, iu refusing to receive a deputation from Bulgaria on the ground that the country was unfavourable to the Czar. Paris, august 12. The Grand Duke Alexis forbade the display of French aad Russian flags from his hotel, and refused an ovation, at Yichy. The court has confirmed the sentence by which M. Turpin was ordered to pay a fine of .£2OO and undergo two years’ imprisonment on a charge of selling the secret of his explosive, melinite, to Sir W. Armstrong and Company, England. [Received August 13, at 7.80 p.m.] • great forest fire. PARIS, August 12. Owing to a mutilation in the telegram respecting the fire at Toulon, the word “ forests ” ,was changed into “fortresses.” Five thousand acres of woods are involved in the confligratioa. VIENNA, August 12. The woman Schneider, who was arrested with her husband for decoying and murdering servant girls, attempted to commit suicide. Her recovery is hopeless. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 12. It ia reported that the Sultan will pay the ransom demanded by brigands for the two Frenchmen captured at Omourdja, out of his privy purse.