TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 942, 2 July 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS. [pee, peess agency.] THE WAII.

Singapore, J ane 30. The Russian head-quarters have been transferred to Sunnitza, and the Russians have occupied Sistova. The Turks were driven from the entrenchments fighting. There is a heavy cannonade along the Danube, from Kalafat to Oltenitza. Turkish despatches state that the Russians attacked Gelvin, and were defeated with heavy loss. • Bombay, June 28. The Governor of South Australia has been ordered to Western Australia, vice Governor Robinson, appointed to the Straits Settlement. London, June 28, Obituary —Yiscount Canterbury. INTERPROYINCIAL. fPEE PEESS AGENCY.] Dunedin, July 2. A man named James Darrah was killed on Saturday through some sand, which he was undermining at Anderson’s Bay, having fallen upon him. An inquest will be held at the hospital at noon to-day.

Tlie following arc the vital statistics for the half year of 1877, ending 30th June. Births, 891 ; deaths, 311; marriages, 198. ■ From professional reports published this morning in reference to the Oamaru and Strathtaieri railway routes it appears that the latter involves a cost of £160,000 and throws open 360,000 acres of land lib for settlement, not to mention some few hundreds of thousands acres more of good land further in the interior. Various alternative Oamaru routes will cost from £298,000 and upwards, and open up 200,000 acres.

[from our own correspondent.] Dunedin July 2.

The Judge has granted Mr Stout’s application for a special jury for Mrs Reid, whose trial is fixed for the 12th. John Ferguson and Thomas Williams, convicted at last session of assault, were sentenced to two months. There is nothing of interest in the charge. Margaret Ryan and Honora Sheehan have been arrested as accomplices in the case against Bridget Ryan for abandoning a child. A woman was sentenced, in the Police Court, to three months’ imprisonment for passing an imitation bank note, being a business advertisement. The Bench said the issue of these notes tended to crime.