ANOTHER TURKISH DEFEAT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 135, 2 November 1877, Page 3

ANOTHER TURKISH DEFEAT.

KARS BOMBARDED.

TOWN IN FLAMES.

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[Special to thb Mail.]

(Reuters, Per Press Agency.)

[Per Submarine Cable.]

London, Undated.

The Agent-General telegraphs :. : — Gouka hnstiiken and fortified a strong Turkish position near Plevi.a, capturing Achme Topai Pasha, together withithe Chief-of-Staff, many Turkish officers, three thousand soldiers, a whole regiment of cavalry, four guns, and other material. Russian loss great.

Prince Sergius Maximilian was killed in a,reconnaisance under the command of the Czarwiteh.

The bombardment of Plevna is still proceeding, A#airs at Shipka Pass are unchanged.

A large Russian force which arrived at Kohorazan compelled Mukhtar Pasha to change his head-quarters from Sevien to Kopucoi. At Erzeroum the inhabitants were all called to arms in consequence of the Russian advance.

Kars is being bombarded, and part of the town is in flames.

London, Oct. 26th. Leikhtenbnrg has been killed while making a reconnaisance on the Lorn.

At the battle of Kadikoi on Wednesday, eight hundred Russians were killed.

The Czar is at Poredin. His physicians are alarmed at the state of his health. He is profoundly affected at the death of the Grand Duke Sergius.

Turkish loan of five millions is announced in London.

between Austria and Germany for treaty of commerce collapsed through Austrian protectionist policy. War tariff's probable. The fortifications at Constantinople fire completed.