CABLEGRAMS.
Lo_\ ix»r, Juno 27. Turkish despatches state that tho Commander of thu 'Pinkish forces in Asia Minor attacked and defeated tho Ilussiaus at Bafcoum.
The Russians have commenced to bombard P-Ustchuk, and the Turkish batteries are replying vigorously.
June 28, Viscount- Canterbury is dead.
Tho wool sales closed firm. There was great Jlueluation during the series. Dor the first throe weeks there was a general recovery, subsequently and to the 'closing the rates were good. Combing fleece being ii penny higher ; lambs' wool realised high prices; greasy partly recovered their fall at. the opening : cross-breds were tho most depressed ; of 290,700 bales catalogued, 17)0,000 sold for export, including 0000 for America, and 00,000 were carried over.
The.L\u*ksh:.v-*ab.mdonedDohnidsi*hk.i. Tho Grand Duke Nicholas, at the head -of the 1.-ilh division and the eighth army corps, crossed the Danube at Sivnuitza and carried the first position of the Turks (Sistova.) June 20. The (-fraud Duke and two corps of tho Russian .'iruiy have crossed the Danube at Sis (ova. Stocks appear to rise with D.ussian successes. Do.mi.ay, Juno 28. Tho Governor of South Australia has lieen ordered to Western Australia vice Mr VV. Robinson, who h;is been ordered to the Straits Settlements, Sir W. Jervois going to South Australia. Si.voAPOia-, June 30. The "Russian headquarters have been removed from "Ployesti to Siuerditza, just below tho junction of the Pavers Toliornian and Vode, and almost opposite to Sistova. The Russians have occupied Sistova, the Turks having been driven from their entrenchments thero. Severe lighting and a heavy cannonade are going "on at all points along the Danube, from Kalafat to Oltenitza.
Turkish despatches state that the Russians attacked Gelvin but were defeated with heavy loss.
July 2. The ncivs received from Batoum of movements in Asiatic Turkey is substantially confirmed by a Russian dispatch, stating that the Russians carried the advanced entrenchments near Zewin.
Thirty thousand Russians have crossed the Danube.
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Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 156, 6 July 1877, Page 6
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