CABLE MESSAGES.
o (Reuters special to the Press Agency. St. Petersburg, May 3. It is semi-officially stated here that the principle of direct negotiations between London and St. Petersburg has been adopted. It is expected that Russia will issue letters of marque in the United States in the event of war. The desire for peace is increasing. Todleben shortly retires, and will live at Tchamaldwa. London, May 4. The Home Secretary, on the 2nd May, said that England Avas bound to exhaust every effort for the maintenance of peace before entering upon war, but she insists that the existing treaties cannot be annulled at the will of a single PoAver. Count Bebanoff has been appointed Russian Ambassador at Constantinople. Mr Gathorne Hardy has been gazetted Viscount Cranbrook. Washington, May 3. Fenian agents are active in the United States. Athens May 7. The clannish insurrectionary movements in Thessaly and Macedonia have ceased, through British mediation. Constantinople, May 7. The Russians offer to retire to a straight line of demarcation with Adrianople if the British ironclad squadron is withdraAvn. The insurrectionary movement in Roumelia increases.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 190, 14 May 1878, Page 3
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183CABLE MESSAGES. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 190, 14 May 1878, Page 3
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