ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN ITEMS.

Southland Times, Issue 2142, 28 June 1875, Page 3

ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN ITEMS.

Two days' sale of pictures in London realised £100,000. Dover is about to be made a fortified harbor. Markbam, of tbe irctic Expedition, was presented to the Queen on Her Majesty's birthday. A meeting was held, presided over Mr Disraeli, to take steps for the erection of a monument to Lord Byron. Mr Warner, secretary of the Sun Building Society, has been committed for trial on tbe charge of embezzling £35,000. The Lord Mayor of London is to Tisit Dublin in June, on the occasion of an Irish banquet to the American Eiflemen. It will be the first mayoral visit in this century. Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, has issued a refutation of the charges brought against the judges who tried the Tichborne claim- i ant. Mr Cowan, member for jSTewcastle-on-Tyne, has tabled a notice condemnatory of the proceedings in reference to the trial of the G-uicowar of Baroda. Renewed hostilities on a large scale are pending in Spain. Consols, April 30, 931 to 94. Obituary — Baron Pigott, Professor Selwyn, Mr Pickersgill (artist), General Brooke, Dowager Lady Duff Gordon, General Smith, Countess Arnim, Lady Caroline Barrington. London, June 15. Tenders for the San Francisco service have been opened. The Pacific and Bailway Combination is the lowest for a service, via Fiji, £89,950 ; via Auckland, £74,749. A concordat between .Russia and the Vatican :s announced by the L'Univers. It is stated to be only a rapprochement. I Alex, Collie, commission merchant, London and Manchester, has fuspended payment, with liabilities stated at three millions. Arrived, on 4(h June, the Adamant, from "Wellington, five months out, The mail steamer Ceylon has left Galle for Melbourne.