NEWS BY SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 121, 14 September 1877, Page 3

NEWS BY SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

In Asia Minor the Russians advanced upon Apulkia. General Tergukassoff advanced to Balikloute, and Ismail Hakee is returning from the Russian territory towards the frontier. An official despatch from the Governor of Schildin, in Anatolia, states that 1000 Russian infantry were encamped between Kabravon and Alasgenl, and a body of Russian cavalry at Arpachicr. A St. Petersburg official despatch of August 11 says, the Turkish right wing assumed the offensive along the line from Tehiazzi Pass to Karavansarn, and drove in the Russian posts with a small loss. They attempted to take Khalfalu, but were repulsed. Russians reinforcements to the Asiatic and Caucasus armies are stated to number 90,000. 15,000 crossed the frontier, and occupied a strong position north of Oni, threatening the right flank of the Ottoman army. The Russian centre is divided into three columns, at Anigloverna and Kurudara, and numbers in all 68 battalions of infantry, 16 batteries, SSOO cavalry. Ismail Pasha is a few hours march west of Bayazid. General Turgukassoff is on the frontier at Karodondok with 16 battalions of infantry, seven battalions and seven regiments of cavalry. Mukhtar Pasha telegraphs that 1000 Karapaka horsemen defeated two Russian battalions near Ardahan.. He further telegraphs, that several hundred Russians were killed in an ambuscade in Koult, south of Ani.

The Russian outposts near Oni were, defeated with a loss of 1000 killed. The Turks withdrew on the approach of Russian reinforcements.

A convention for the suppression of the slave trade has been signed between England and Egypt. The Cattle Plague Committee of the House of Commons agreed to stop all importations from Germany, Russia, and Belgium, and to enforce the slaughter at place of landing' of all Cattle from other countries. A communication from' Sir Stafford Northcote to the O'Connor gives hopes of the release of the remainder of the Fenian prisoners. A steamer has arrived at Rouen from La Plata with a cargo of. fresh meat in fine condition, 112 days after commencing to load. On August 3 3 a riot took place at Londonderry. The military were called out, and several people were wounded. Riots occured in Belfast and lasted several days to August 8. The military were called out.

The Clyde shipwrights agreed to submit their disputes with the masters to arbitration. A great strike is anticipated. A special from Alexandria says that the Abyssinians are massing troops on the Egyptian frontier, and threaten an invasion unless the traitor Walldamikall is delivered up immediately.

The village of Garnsel, was burnt, and 800 families are homeless.

The town of Sundsold, Sweden, was totally burnt.

At Athens on August 12, large crowds were parading the streets, shouting War ! War ! War !

The public mind in Greece is very uneasy. Troops are setting out for the frontier daily.

1 DIA. A Calcutta despatch says that the famine at Madras and Mysore will rage at least six months'longer. The situation in India is critical. There is great danger of an almost universal famine. Fearful riots were caused by strikes all through the' States in the end or July. '* At Chicago and St Louis threefourths of the manufacturers stopped. The military were called out, and fired at the mob at Chicago, killing fifteen and wounding over fifty. Riots took place at Harrisburgh, Columbus, Toledo, Detroit, Scanton, Pittsburgh, Omaha, Jackson, Indianopolis, and a score of other towns. At Baltimore, 8000 miners. are on strike. Cabinet Councils were held at Washington to devise measures for the public safety. Detachments of military are in all directions, and the destruction •of property is enormous. At Baltimore, St Louis, and other places the strikers signed a requisition for an eight hours' law. At Reading, six people were killed. A compromise was effected by the beginning of August, and work resumed in most districts.

At San. Fransciseo a mob of Hoodlums arranged a plan for exterminating Chines and burning the docks of the Pacific Mail- Company, which brings Chinamen to the country. The Vigilance Committee was "revived and prevented the outrage. Detachments of soldiers are stationed along the central railway linos to sc.-ure the safe transit of mails and passengers. The insurance losses at St John's fire were 6.700,000d015. A workhouse has been burned with seventeen inmates. The village of Talen, Wisconsin, was destroyed by a fire, communicated from Fort street, which burned for five weeks. One family peiished, and several are missing. The Chinese question occupies the colums of American journals.' The San Francisco Post of August 8 has a letter stating that hundreds of officers in the civil war are now earning a bare sustenance at the washtub. August 8. A dastardly outrage has been committed at New York. All the fish in the Aquarium were poisoned. The Idaho Indian war continues. General Gabbin attacked the ludian camp at Big Hole Basin. After a severe struggle he routed them. The troops lost 70 of all ranks, and the Indians 150. The hardest fought battle was that of Rayo. The Indians are retreating.