LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 173, 27 June 1883, Page 3

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

(Per s.b. Waihoia at the Bluff.)

(Specials to Melbourne Age.

i (BY TELEGRAPH*), ! [PEBUmTEI) PBBSS ASSOCIATION]- ( ... r - , LoNpQN,; June; 12. " Anti-vaccination agitation is Vigorously reviwel m England. It js bn— lieved the Cabinet are inclined; as m < regard to the agitation against the Contagious Diseases A/t, Jo let Parliament decide, without maintaining any opinion. - "''" ! The Admii alty have decided to pay offall sailing ecbooners on the Australian stations, but . will replace" them with small, ' powerful r composite steamers. . The gunboats Raven and Goshawk: hare been selected, and will proceed to Australia.. \ „ The Fisheries Exhibition at Poutn Kensington is a great success, and has, been much crowded- -daily since the opening. Fishermen from several countries attendliii :'ifttionai tfostume. I The Chinese collection is most remarkable..,. The two -gunboats ordered by the Queensland Government -have sheen, commenced at Sir, W. Armstrong's shipbuilding yards, Elswick, N ewcastle-on-Tyne; and the. , two torpedo boats ordered are also . under construction at Tborneycfoft's yard, London. : ; \ The oouree adopteil by the Pope relative ta. the suppression of Irish outifges has aroused great indignation , amongst the Fenians at: Chicago. Two thousand of their number have^signed a manifesto, repudiating.^bb authority" of {'bis Holiness m the matter, and ur'tr-' ing the Irish people to disregard his commands. •"-■ :--".- ; -'- -'^"-ooa , . . . / June IJ9. In an article upon the proposal of the Suez Canal Company to construct a second canal, the Standard urges jthat iingiarid and Egypt shod d accept the terms offered by Lesneps, President* of the Company, and assist him in'obtaining the land-required for the carry :«_ ing out pt .the, project .. v !