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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1165, 29 June 1894, Page 34

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Buda Pebth, June 21. Floods of an appalling character have been experienced throughout Hungary. Thousands of houses have been swept away, wlrle tho loss of sheep and cattle is enormous. Numbers of peasants have also been drowned. The damage is estimated at six million pounds. Buda Pesth, Juno 21.

The Hungarian Upper House, by a majority of four votes, has approved of the Civil Marriage Bill. Paris, June 20.

The Chamber of Deputies has agreed to the first reading of a Bill conceding Home Rule to Paris. ,■«,,■* M. Doloncle, addressing the Chamber of Deputies, urged that France should demand tho free navigation of the Nile, and a free passage through Egpyt. St. Petersburg, Juno 22.

Nine warehouses in Finsburg were gutted by fire, the damage being estimated at .£150,000. The fact of telegraph wires becoming red hot and falling to the ground was fraught with considerable danger. St. Petersburg, June 22.

A mine has been discovered on the railway line between Orel and Vitebsk, which it ip supposed was intended to demolish the Imperial train going to the army manoeuvres. St. Petersburg, June 26.

A mine was found near a church at Borki, which the Czar was expected to consecrate. A number of bombs and infernal machines were also discovered in a cellar at St. Petersburg. It is reported that two Cabinet Ministers are compromised by the disclosures. Berlin, June 22. Kootze, Master of Ceremonies at tho Emperor's Court, has been arrested for writing anonymous letters to leaders of society accusing them of scandalous offences. Berlin, June 23. The Emperor desires that Kootze, the Master of Ceremonies at his Court, should receive immediate and exemplary punishment. Berlin, Juno 25. The Kaiser, in tho course of a speech at Kiel, the great German naval depot, recalled the days of Waterloo, when the English and Prussians, fighting shoulder to shoulder, crushed their hereditary foe. The Kaiser, in his speech to the Marine Service at Kiel, said he would keep the sword of Germany naked and sharpened. His son, Adelbert, had been destined from the first for the service of the navy.