EUROPEAN TOPICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9724, 13 May 1892, Page 5

EUROPEAN TOPICS.

[Special to Press Association.] PARIS, Mat 11. The police in Paris have been increased by 1100 men. The Premier will ask the Chamber to vote .£12,000 to indemnify the victims of the recent dynamite explosions. The President has ordered the salaries paid by the State to the Archbishops of Avignon and Amiens to be stopped. Telegrams from West Africa report that an attack by Dahoman troops on Portoaovo was repulsed. The Governor of the place was amongst the wounded. Cardinal Lavigene is ill. BRUSSELS, May 11. The Belgian Chamber has decided in favour of an important revision of tho Constitution, increasing tho franchise. ST PETERSBURG, May 11. It is now stated that Greasers, Prefect of the Police, who was said to be poisoned by Nihilists, really fell a victim to a quack injection for rheumatism. - Three hundred foreigners have been expelled from Lodz, in Poland, and forty others hav/j been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment as Socialists. [Received Msy 12, at 7.30 p.m.J PARIS, May 11. The reported attack on Portonovo is denied. [Received May 13, at 12.50 a.m.] ST PETERSBURG, May 12. M. Gresser, the Prefect of Police, died to-day. ROME, May 12. Signor Giolletti has succeeded in forming a new Ministry.