EUROPEAN TOPICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10237, 4 January 1894, Page 5

EUROPEAN TOPICS.

[Special to Press Association.! THE ANARCHISTS. PARIS, Jan. 2. The President, at an official reception of the Papal Nuncio, said that Prance’s most cherished wish was for universal peace. Jan. 3. On Monday last two thousand warrants to search the residences of Anarchists were executed in the French provinces. ST PETERSBURG, Jan. 3, The Czar has ordered the construction of thirty torpedo boats to strengthen tho Baltic fleet, ROME, Jan. 2. At his New Year’s reception the King of Italy said the prospect in Europe promised the greatest security and a continuance of peace. Owing to the acquittal of rioters who attacked aud killed a number of Italian workmen at Lignes Mortes, in the South of France, crowds gathered in front of the French Consulates at Turin and Genoa, and stoned the officials. The rioting and burning of the Octroi offices in Sicily continue. Jan. 3. Sicily is virtually in a state of revolt, and General Marra has been i invested with plenary powers to suppress disorder. MADRID, Jan. 2. The Spanish troops are withdrawing from Melilla. The Sultan of Morocco is organising a force to put down the Eiff tribes. J Jan. 3. Three Anarchists charged with being concerned in the explosion of dynamite bombs in the Chamber of Deputies in April last, have been convicted and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment.