LATE MAIL NEWS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 129, 12 October 1877, Page 2

LATE MAIL NEWS.

(By Telegraph.)

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(Per s.s. Chimboraro, via Melbourne.) -The-three.Police Inspectors, Druscoviteh, Palmer, and Meiklejolm, and the solicitor Froggart, were again brought op at Bowstreut, charged with conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice jn co»H,eajuHi with the ttff fraud*. The examined, and in his evidebofretritcd tHat, dir,e.ctly. or indirectly"/he had given money to 11 members of the police force. He also mentioned several inferior members of police and prison warders to whom '..bribes had been given. • The Queen and members of the Royal family paid a visit of inspection to the Thunderer on August 11. , Snlieman Pasha telegraphs that 10,000 Mussulman woman and children escaped tbiSjjmassacre by Bulgarians and Russians at jlCezanlik, the remainder of the men being killed, and the women carried away prisoners by the Russians to the Balkans. In August last, it seems that the Russians only had 150,000 men on the Danube and the army of invasion in Armenia did not exceed 50,000. The difficulties of transport and commissariat have been found very great, while the army suffered horribly from sickness. Advices from Panama dated August 2, state that the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Exen was lost on July 15, 70 miles north of Valparaiso. It is estimated that 60 persons were on board, 43 of whom had reached the shore tip to July 18. Twenty others took refuge on a rock, and the British war ship Amethyst went to their assistance,; but the bad weather prevented their rescue being accomplished. The survivors on the rock, after experiencing horrible suffering from exposure and.want of food, threw themselves into the sea to end their misery. Only three of them were saved, and it is believed that altogether upwards of 100 perished. ; . . ,