Reuter's Telegrams.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 116, 28 August 1877, Page 3

Reuters Telegrams.

[Per Submarine Cable.]

Bombay, undated

Desperate fighting at Shipka, lasting thirteen hours. Russians maintained ground. Losses heavy. Col. Baker 'extinguished himself. . . . Eussian position in Bulgaria, at Eski Djuma' critical. •■ Both armies in Asia inactive. London, August 24. Agent-General's telegram states great "battle lasting two days took place at Shipkn pass. Turks repulsed, -with great loss. Osmond Pasha's attack on Selvi repulsed. Rustchinco suffered from bombardment. Three hundred Cossacks who had laid down their arms, slaughtered in cbld blood. Russians mobilising in great force. Important battle expected.. Insurrection in Crete, many Turks killed, Russian atrocities said to be chiefly fabrications of Turks. Stafford House subscriptions for wounded Turks almost all embezzled by Turkish'officials, and soldiers leit with- j out surgical aid. City of New York, with London mails of July 26th, left Frisco on 15th instant for Auckland, via Honolulu. 1 Zealandia, with New Zealand July' mails, arrived at Frisco on 22nd' inst.,making "passage in 21 days. Calling at' Honolulu has been resumed, and contractors notify intention to continue doing so.