LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 194, 24 July 1883, Page 3

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

(AGE SPECIALS.) { UNITED PBBS^LSSeigiATION.) (Per Wairarap*a, at tfie Bluff.) . July 9. The French Chamber of Deputies are engaged m discussing a bill which pro* poses to construct a railway bridge over the Euglish Channel. fThe -bill provides that the starting point of the projected bridge shall be Cape Gresney Points-ten tdiies north of Boulogne, arid that its terminus ehairbe Folkestone, a seaport town m the^ounty of Kent. A. debate. took place^in the House of Commons lsfet night upon a motion in* -„ Produced by the ffon. H. Chaplin on the, subject of placing some restrictions upon the importation of live^ stock from' America,, Tbe { motion was carried. SrnifetTie departure^of^rainrs Carey, the informer, it haS transpired tnat his estate is bankrupt. .■ ........ EflForts to; raise 'the isteamer- Daphne, which sank while being launched m the JElWer Clyde^havß; so faf; been 7 successful. Eighty bodies -"have heen tecovered. .t; : ;jv.t^ • i -" ; ' : w " 5 '- i; <; '' . ' ' The Peterborough cathedral, which has been considered _unsaie for some time, has ,now been| condemned i as abfipluteiv dangerous.. , v The Englißh Government has decided not tp onforcequarantine TegulationK m ' consequence ot the spread of cholera m Egypt.— .r..-;---,-:-— -*-•■ ' T 1 1 K. It' h^r^eif^ra^intrtne Marqais of Lome shall^succed Lord Bipon as (invarnnr flflnp.rn.l of TndiiL.