LATE EUROPEAN.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1935, 17 August 1886, Page 2

LATE EUROPEAN.

Special to Sydney Evening News.

PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, August IG.

London, August 5. —A cablegram from New York says that there is a split among the American members of the Irish Nationalist League. Widens of the New York branch denouncing Egan’s low ruffianism. The fear of a row will probably deter Parnell from attending the Chicago Convention,the proceedings at which are expected to be stormy as the extreme Nationalists complain of the failure of the appeal to British Parliament, and insist upon having recourse to the terrorism of dynamite. The Kempton Park Race Club is intent on emulating the venture of the Sandown Park Race Club by instituting a stake of lOjOOO sovs. to be called the Royal Stakes, similar to the Eclipse Stakes and to be run for in the Spring of 1889. The '.merchant Napier Cookson has just obtained a divorce from his wife with a £IOOO damages, on the ground of her adultery with the corespondent, the Rev. Mr Finlayson who is organising Secretary of the Colonial and Continental Church Society. August 9, The National Liberal Federation has just issued a manifesto in which the Liberals of the United Kingdom are strongly urged to demand from the new Conservative Government an unreseived disc’osures of its intentions with respect to the Irish question.

High European authorities have warned the British Government that Russia is actively preparing for a great coup. August 10,

Semi official reports from Belfast egtimate that daring the riots up to

date there have beeu 20 killed and 200 wounded. There are signs of -approaching trouble in other parts of Ulster and general rising of Orangemen is feared. Auckland, Aug. 16 The following London cablegrams were received per Mariposa : The question of a future Colonial Indian Exhibition is now under consideration. It is suggeste 1 that the exhibition should be closed in two months, and be reopened next year,an endeavour being ma lein the meantime to remedy the defects apparent insomeof the Courts. This proposal, however, is meeting with strong opposition, especially on the part of nearly all the Executive Commissioners, who are of opinion that it would be a prolongation which is unneessary, and would bo unprofitable. The proposed testimonial to the Prince of Woles, in recognition of his services as President of the Commission for the Colonial andjlndian Exhibition, has not been taken up so heartily as was expected. Up to the present there are only a few subscribers. The World predicts that the Prince will decline the testimonial.

The - advocates of Northern Queensland separation are making progress. At their request the Earl of Dunraveu has consented to introduce an Enabling Bill into the House of Lords.

The Republique Franeaise lias lengthy articles on the New Hebrides question. It declares that England wants the is'ands, and is, therefore, angry at the French Goverment, but it ridicules England’s claim, and asserts there is not the slightest justification for it. France, continues the paper, has forestalled England, and has practically annexed the islands. That being to she will never withdraw her flag or her troops despite all that may be said about her action.