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[Special to the Mail.] (Reuters, Per Press Agency.) London. August 16. Parliament was prorogued to-day. The speech from the Throne praises the patriotic offers of military aid from the colonies. Affairs in South Africa are causing anxiety, but it is thought that serious ended. St. Petersburg, Aug. 17. The Director General of Police has been stabbed by an assassin and killed. Constantinople, Aug. 17. Thirty Turkish battalions have joined the Bosnians. [special to the press agency.] London, Aug. 17. The relations between Austria and Turkey continue unsettled. No convention is yet signed. Great military preparations continue in Bosnia. Three Austrian regiments refusing to advance were decimated) and continuing mutinous, more executions followed. Those remaining were then sent prisoners to Austria. •
A Servian loan of seventy-four million franks has been negotiated with a Paris banker. The Moniteur announced a change of the Egyptian Ministry to-day. The administration of the country is entirely out of the bands of the Khedive. The match with Lancashire resulted in a draw. The pretended ultimatum of G.rmany to the Porte is discredited. Hoedel has been beheaded. Colonel Stanley stated in the Commons that news from Cyprus was favorable, but did not explain the difference from the Daily News accounts, which say the efficiency of the troops is paralysed by fever, that two-thirds of the medical staff are down very ill, and there have been five deathfi.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 218, 20 August 1878, Page 2
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