EUROPE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 18, 29 April 1908, Page 10

EUROPE.

Hi s Holiness the Pope o nApril 22 received the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin (Dr. Michael Verdon). Baron Nathaniel Rothschild’s estate yielded the Austrian Exchequer a sum of £835,000 in death duties. Two millions of the guaranteed 2| g)er cents will be issued to the National o>ebt Commission in connection with the Irish Land Act. The police have discovered a plot to murder Manuel 11., King of Portugal, at the opening of the Cortes. T heßepublican Press advise King Manuel to remember the fate of h’s father and brother. The death is announced of General Dinevitch, who. at the time of the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, was commander of the Russian troops in the far East, but who was subsequently superseded by General Kuropatkin. At the instance of the Imperial Government the Semite of Hamburg is organising an institution to train colonial judicials ami sett Ir<. While work was proceeding on a new ,iving of the co-operative stores at Milan the building suddenly collapsed. Forty masons were at work at the time, and of those fifteen were buried under the ruins and were killed outright. The remaining twenty live escaped with their lives, though many of them were injured. The St. Petersburg police discovered an extensive plot to blow up the whole Imperial family at Court during the marriage ceremonx of the Grand Duchess Pavlovla to the second son of the King of Sweden German Mail Subsidy. A bill has been submitted to the (Federal Council of the German Empire, authorising a subsidy to the Norddeut scher Lloyd Company of 500,000 marks a year (about £25,000), in

consideration of a resumption of its service between Australia and the Far East.

The company intends .replacing its service from Sydney to New Guinea and Singapore, which was discontinued some time ago, by a monthly service between Sydney and Japan, calling at New Guinea, Hong Kong, and Yap, one of the principal islands of the Carolines.