EUROPE AN NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9660, 14 June 1882, Page 2

EUROPE AN NEWS.

(Per Wakatipu, at Wellington.) [news specials.] (pee united press association). LONDON. June 1. Abdulrahtuan, Ameer of Cabul, is urging upon the Shah of Persia to expel from his dominions the pretender Ayoub Khan, who is at present in Teheran plotting a descent on Herat. The Czar has given an audience to tho Chief Babbi of the Jews in Kussia. In the course of the interview, the Czar pledged himself to protect the Jews from further persecution to the utmost of his power. Extraordinary frosts have been experienced in British North America. The gulf of St. Lawrence is partially frozen over, and at the present time no less than fifty vessels are ice-bound in tho gulf. The Moscow Exhibition has been opened with the usual formalities. The Grraud Duke Vladimir, brother of the Czar of Bussia, performed the opening ceremony. The public library at Birmingham having been rebuilt, has been re-opened. The ceremony was performed by the BightHon John Bright, M.P., Chancellor of the Duohy of Lancaster. Jiine 4. The celebrated tenor singer, Guiaeppc Mario, has died from peritonitis, at the ago of 74. He v.'as the husband of the late Madame Grisi. The Attorney-General for Ireland, Mr W. M. Johnson, member for Mallow, has boon offorod a judgeship, and will bu immediately gazetted to tho bench.

Messrs Davitt and Dillon, recently released suspects, have sailed to America, where they intend to confer with, the American branch of the Land League with a view to further co-operation. The- Russo-Jews who have taken refine in America have been totally unable to find employment in "ew York, niul have been reduced to a miserable plight. The strike at Pittsburg is daily becoming more serious, and the number of men out of work is increasing. There is, however, abundance of funds in hand to prevent any distress occurring, and subscriptions are flowing in from all parts of the United States to assist the men on strike in maintaining the struggle with the masters. ! P. J. Quinn, secretary of the Irish Land League, who was arrested on the 14th October, 1881, and committed to Kilmainhatn gaol along with the other suspects, has been released-by order of the Government. The insurgent forces having again mustered'in the neighbourhood of Khartoum, capital of Nubia, have succeeded in entering the city. The station of the Grand Truak Railway Company at Quebec has been totally destroyed by fire.