TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LATEST FROM EUROPE
[by submarine cable, pee pbess agency.]
THE WAR.
E/ussians crossed the Frontier Hostilities Commenced.
Turks Defeated.
London, April 27. Lord Derby neither accepts nor adopts either the conclusion or arguments of Grortschakoff's circular. On the 26th hist, the Russians crossed the frontier at Alexandropol. The main army is moving towards Dalramcha. It is considered doubtful if the Turks will ai-rive in time to prevent the passage of the Danube. The Russians commenced hosilities at Ardahan to-day, and routed the Turks near Batoum, with a loss to the latter of eight hundred.
Commercial-
The Loan and Mercantile Agency reports the wool market dull. Antwerp sales flat. The May series comprise about three hundred thousand bales. Tallow is in good demand, and the market firm. Holders demand higher rales. Mutton, 43s ; beef, 41s. The wheat market is firm. Off-coast cargoes have been advanced since last report. Adelaide is worth (5Ss ; New Zealand, 625. The following ships had arrived at Loudon on the 21st:—From Melbourne, North America and Rodney; from Dunedin, the Timaru.
INTERPROVINCIAL.
Wanga'NUT, April 30. The railway between Wanganui and Turakina will be formally opened in about a fortnight, but a special train will be run to-day to Turakina, starting from Wanganui at one o'clock.
Bluff, April 30. The Arawata arrived yesterday. She left Melbourne at 3.30 p.m. on the 23rd, and passed the Ringaroonni in Port Philip Pay. Light easterly winds and line weather prevailed until mid-day on the 26th, when a heavy S.E. gale, with a, head sea, was encountered until making tho South West Cape at noon, on the 28th. She brings 48 saloon and 34 steerage passengers, and 300 tons cargo for all ports ; also five boxes, containing 30,000 sovereigns. Passengers —Saloon for Lyttelton: Messrs George, Buckley, Allan, Well, Jack, Mrs Smith, Palmer, Rodger, Misses Smith, Cattern, and ten in steerage, and 45 tons of cargo. Pout Chalmers, April 30. Arrived —Arawata, from Bluff.
Suicide in Dunedin.
DUNEDIN, April 30. Alfred Goldsmith, Caversham, committed suicide yesterday morning, by hanging himself with a clothes-line on his bedaoom door.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 888, 30 April 1877, Page 2
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