YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1005, 14 September 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

(by submarine cable, per press agency.) Wellington, September 13. The s.s. Easby has arrived from Sydney. The “ Herald ” contains the following special cable message, not yet published in New Zealand : London, September 4. The battle which took place on the 31st ult. at Porediu Palisat began early in the morning. The Turks attacked the Russian position in great force. The Russian entrenchments were thrice taken and recaptured. McMahon, who was an eye-witness, says at four o’clock in the afternoon the Turks were everywhere retreating. . The Russians admit that in recapturing their first position they lost 1000 men, and thirty officers. The Turkish losses were heavier. A. sortie by the eight battalions from Rustchuk on Friday cos), the Russians seven killed and thirty wounded. The Russians in possession of Shipka Pass have been reinforced. There was again severe fighting on Saturday. A sword, bearing a suitable inscription, has been presented to Gfeneral Radctskch on behalf of the Czar for his successful defence of the Shipka Pass. The whole of the Roumanian army crossed the Danube on Saturday, and fixed their head quarters at Parix. Nicopolis is now garrisoned by Roumanian soldiers. INTERPROVINCIAL. [per press agency.] Railway Accident. . The District Railways Bill. Auckland, September 13. As the Waikato train was entering the Huntley station the engine driver saw a cow and calf rushing from the road to cross the line in front of the train. He reversed the engine and blew the alarm whistle. The engine, however, knocked down the cattle and ran on to them, one being thrown into the air by the concussion. The stoker was pitched head first out, while the engine was driven several feet off the rails. None of the passengers was even shaken. They thought the train had stopped at a station. On the following Tuesday another similar event took place. A mare and foal leaped from behind a furze bush just in front of the engine. Both beasts were knocked down by the buffers and crushed into an indistinguishable mass by the engine. Dunedin, September 13. The Chamber of Commerce met this afternoon to consider the District Railways Bill. It was resolved —“ That a minimum term of years, say seven or ten, be fixed within which Government could not exercise its power of purchase, except in special cases, where unforeseen circumstances might arise to render it desirable or necessary in the public interest to purchase. In any such exceptional cases, however, companies owning such lines should be paid a fair extra bonus beyond the 10 per cent, contemplated by the Act, according to length of time the minimum period may have to run. The proposed guarantee of 7 per cent, shall be paid direct from the Colonial Treasury, and the proportion proposed to be contributed by boroughs and counties through which railways pass shall be recovered from them by G-overnment.” “That Clause 63 be amended in such way as wifi permit of railway company raising money by debentures for long period, and, in event of the Government taking over the railway, provision be made for security of the rights of debenture holders.” “That, in the opinion of the Chamber, if these amendments are given effect to, the proposed Bill as a whole would give reasonable and liberal facilities for the construction of branch railways wherever the circumstances of districts require them.” Timaru Harbour Board. (from the correspondent of the press.) Timaru, September 13. At the Harbor Board meeting to-day the date for receiving applications for the engineership was extended to the second Thursday in October. A letter was read from Sir John Coode, refuting evidence given by Mr Carruthers before a Parliamentary Commission last year on the Timaru Harbor works.