YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 991, 29 August 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by submarine cable, reuter's special telegrams to the press agency.] The Capture of Shipka Pass Unconfirmed. Bombay, August 27, 8 p.m. The capture of Shipka Pass is unconfirmed. Gambetta is to be prosecuted for a speech hostile to the French Government.

EUROPEAN NEWS BY THE RINGAROOMA.

♦ Additional i War News to August 19. Bismarck Declares Mediation Impossible. Projected Visit of English Amateur Cricketers. Trickett Challenged by Boyd. [prom the dunedin correspondent op THE I'RESS.] The Ringarooma has brought additional war news up to August 19th. The Russian Imperial Guard is to he employed in skirmishing duty in the neighborhood of Rustchuck.

The Turks carried all the advanced Eussian positions at Batouni on the 19th inst. Powerful Russian reinforcements are proceeding by forced marches to Armenia. All the available Turkish troops in Constantinople are leaving for Adrianople. The Russians never crossed the Balkans at Clupka, but at Demir Kapa Pass. Bismarck declares that mediation is now actually impossible. Letters by the mail mention that there is a strong probability of a team of English amateur cricketers visiting the colonies shortly. Boyd offers to come out to row against Triclcett if £3OO is allowed for his expenses, and Trickett lays £ISOO to £IOOO. AUSTRALIAN. Sydnef, August 28. The Premier and the Minister for Lands have been re-elected.

INTEEPEOVINCIAL. [per press agency.] Westport, August 28. A meeting of the Koromu Coal Company arranged with Mr Bochfort, surveyor, to complete permanent surveys and supply the estimated cost of a branch line, and of the cost of delivering coal at Mr Eochfort's main line. The Company will call for tenders and actively push on the work immediately that the estimates are furnished.

The Colonial Prize Firing. Dunedin High School Rectorship.

[I'ROJI THE CORRESPONDENTS OP THE PRESS.] Dunedin, August 28. The Government have refused positively to hold the next prize firing at Q.ueenstown, but will aid any encampment similar to the one held there last March. Mr Nome's resignation of the Rectorship of the High School arises through the Board demanding to know r by what authority Mr A. Y. Smith, one of the masters, left his duties and accompanied the Football Team North. Mr Nome replied that, before answering the letter, which was signed by Mr Pryde, acting secretary, he wished to know by whose instructions the latter acted. The Board replied with a pretty peremptory demand for the required information, adding that Mr Nome's letter was wanting in courtesy. Mr Nome replied, explaining that he had given Smith leave, subject to his finding a substitute, claiming his right to act so, and forwarding his resignation. The sharp manner in which the Rector was dealt with, and the very extreme opposite course being adopted in the case of the Girls' High School, gives rise to a deal of unfavorable comment. Mr R. S. Smythe is a passenger by the Ringarooma for the North. He goes to meet the Rev. Charles Clark, who is expected by the next Californian mail steamer.