LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 79, 20 April 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Special tothe Mail.]

[Per Press Agency.] London, April 16. War feeling at Petersburg is exciting interest. Czar going to Kichnen. Dunedin, April 18. Escort arrived to-day, bringing down 6437 ounces gold. M'Laren and a lot of loafers, encouraged by a paragraph in the Guardian and Evening News, held a meeting this afternoon, and inten d present a petition to the Governor, asking for employment. Timaru, April 19. Tremendous surf rolling in from the south-east, with no wind. Vessels in roadstead are labouring heavily. The threemasted schooner Annie Bow, for the safety of which some anxiety was felt at Melbourne, is safe in roadstead here. Dugald Blue, a substantial farmer, was committed for trial yesterday on a charge of stealing sheep from Canterbury and Otago Association. Blue's brand had been put over the Association's, and ear-marks altered. The case lasted all day, defendant's counsel contending there was no criminal intention. [By Submarine-Cable.] Sydney, April 18. At Kaongsee a thousand Chinese are dying daily from starvation. The population reduced to last stage of emaciation. Sutsyana rebellion in Japan is more serious than was at first anticipated. Two thousand Chinese troops deserted, and on being followed, large numbers were killed