EUROPEAN TOPICS.
[Special to Press Association.]
LISBON, Apbil 29.
Portugal is following the example set by England, and is building gunboats suitable for the navigation o£ the Shird and Zambesi rivers. England and America are insisting upon Portugal referring the Delagoa Railway dispute to arbitration. BERLIN, Apiiil 29. Bismarck -will shortly leave on a visit to Scotland. Germany has offered a protest to the projected conversion of the Turkish debt. The Emperor William is at present on a visit to Eisenach, in Central Germany. BT PETERSBURG, Apbil 29. The Russian Press is commenting on the dauger which ■would accrue to the Russian Empire through China throwing in her lot -with England, and lending her assistance in case of in outbreak of war. The order committing Schmidt, Mho is alleged to have betrayed the plans of the fortresses of Cronstradt, to penal servitude in Siberia has been countermanded, and he was shot. It was ascertained that he secretly divulged Russia's scheme for mobilising her troops in the event of war with Austria.
VIENNA, Apbil 29. An agrarian agitation has broken out in Galicia.
PARIS, Apbil 29. Lord Lytton, British Ambassador at Paris, has notified the French Government that England desires the regulation of October, 1889, relative to the salvage of wrecked vessels, made applicable to Queensland.
LONDON, Apbil SO.
The Emperor William of Germany wil pay a visit to Queen Victoria in tbe autumn.
The Paris correspondent of the Dcily News telegraphs that a Royalist conspiracy in Paris to take place on Mar 1 has heen discovered.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6841, 1 May 1890, Page 3
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