BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 857, 20 September 1878, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

—o-n (By Cable.) (From our Dunedin Exchanges.) London, September 10. Germany proposes that common action should bo taken by the Great Cowers to make the Porte execute the Berlin Treaty stipulations. England and Italy have con»a ited, contingent on the other contracting Powers also agreeing. There are 103,000 destitute people in the fever districts of the United States. The deaths are. increasing, and the fever is spreading. There has been severe fighting at Los Bihoes, where the Austrians were defeated with the loss of several hundred men, and returned to Tavalaye. A fourth of the British forces at Cyprus are sick with fever. The European factories at Dahomey ha/e hcen pillaged. Greece solicits the mediation of the European Powers in favour of making the Vistritga the Turoo-Gre.ian frontier. September 11. Serious opposition to the Austrian octu pation continues in Old Bosnia. It is impossible that the campaign will be concluded this season. Thirty-six thousand of the insurgents, with >lO guns, have collected for the defence of the country. Five of the Australian cricketers have subscribed LUO towards the Princess Alice relief fund. Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of Fiji, and the King of Siam have been created Knights Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. Gcarge. The Austrians are likely to o< c ipy Albania. The island of Pulago will probably be ceded to England. At the wool sales the attendance falls off with the progress of the sales. Prices show a general decline on previous quotations The fall is most strongly marked in scoured and inferior greasy. i Berlin, September 10. Dr Nobeling died to-day. September 11. The Imperial Department of Justice is showing more toleration towards the Socialists. London, September 12. The seat of the Duke of Aborcorn, in South Wales, has been injured by fire. All officers and men absent on leave have been recalled, as a measure of precaution. A fearful colliery accident has occurred a' Kedou Vale, by which 300 minors were killed. Eighty were rescued. Eoumania hesitates to occupy the Dobrudscha, and apprehends resistance from the inhabitants. Some strongly worded despatches have been sent to St. Petersburg by the British Government regarding the action of the Bussian Government towards Afghanistan. A conspiracy of a serious nature h.as been discovered at Seville, in Spain. The object of the conspiracy was the overthroav of the Monarchy. llussia has advised Servia not to disarm, and continues the payment of the subsidy. The following cablegrams are taken from Melbourne papers : London, September 4. There has been a terrible loss of life in the river Thames. One of the large steamers had taken a great number of persons on a pleasure excursion down to Sheorness, at the 'mouth of the Medway. The steamer had started on the return trip, and had not proceeded far when signals of distress were made, and almost immediately afterwards she sank. The cause was the dividing of the steamer Into two parts. September 9. An insurrectionary movement has broken out amongst the' Mahoraedan population of the province of Albania, and the insurgents have massacred Mchemet Pasha and a number of the Turkish authorities at Topeka, Tehfp.aw, September 6. ■ A meeting has been held here for the promotion of a railway connecting this capital

with Tiflis (in the provihca of Georgiy) and, Armenia, atfd an eiteusioa to Herat, on the border of Afghanistan, is in contemplation, Tho Porto refuses to appoint a delegate for tho rectification of tho frontiers of Greece. The number of persons on board tho excursion steamer which sank off Woolwich is now ascertained to be 675, of -whom 600 were drowned. The Queen has’ expressed her deep regret at this deplorable accident, and hur sympathy with fhe sufferers. A division of the Austrian army attacked and completely defeated the' insurgents at Dohoi, a town on the river Bosnia, about “thirty miles from the northern frontier of Bosnia, . •