YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1007, 17 September 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS

[BBVTBE'S SPECIAL TEIEQ-BAMS TO • THB PBBBB AOBKOY.] Austria and Russia Allied. The Investment of Plevna. .Bombay, September 12. The Emperor of Austria, at a banquet, proposed the health of “ his dear friend and ally, the Emperor of Russia.” Gfambetta has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and a i|ue of two thousand francs. Bombay, September 12, midnight. A Russian official despatch stales that the bombarding of Plevna continued unabated to the evening of the 10th. The Russians capi ured another height commanding the town. The Russian cavalry defeated the Turkish cavalry on the Sophia road. September 13th, 7 p.m, Plevna is closely invested, XUo Turkish uurtiep tyre uwa ringed*

It is estimated that the Russian and Roumanian forces number 80,000 and 356 guns, and the Turkish forces 60,000 and 230 guns. __ The Loss o the Ship Avalanche. Karnes of the Passengers. London, September 13, 3.45 p.m. On Tuesday night the ship Avalanche bound for Wellington, when off Portland, was struck amidships by the American ship Forest, and sunk in three minutes. Sixtythree passengers were drowned. The passengers were chiefly returning colonists. Of thirty-four seamen three were saved, including the third officer. Of the Forest’s crew, numbering twenty-one, nine were saved. The bodies are being washed ashore. Among the list are whole families—eight of a family named Wilkins, six named Lees, and four named Chamberlain. Wellington, September 15. A telegram sent by Sir Julius Yogel, and dated London, September 12th, says that among the returning colonists lost in the Avalanche there wore—for Wellington, Mrs and Miss Cooper, Mr Cecil Walker, Mr J. C. Cooper, and Master Neil Pearce, eldest son of Mr Edward Pearce; for Wanganui, Mrs M. Watt, Miss Taylor, Mrs Shield, Mrs Wychododil, Mr J. M. Richards, Miss Foote. [per press agency.] The South Pacific Islands. The Whaling Fleet, Abandonment of a Coal-Laden Ship. Auckland, September 15. The Belle Brandon, from the Savage Islands, the Active, from Tonga and Samoa, and the Coronet, from Tahiti, have arrived. The Belle Brandon brings a cargo of cotton, copra, and fungus. The Coronet has a valuable cargo of cotton, lime-juice, and copra. Captain Rose reports that the iron ship Ada Fredale, which left Ardrossan with coal tor San Francisco on June 15th, 1876, was abandoned in flames, the crew suffering great hardships for twenty-six days. The ship was towed into Passette harbor, Tahiti, on June 20th of this year, still burning, after eight months’ tossing about, during which time she had drifted 6uo miles. She was picked up close to the land by a French frigate. The Active brings very little additional war news. The fighting had entirely stopped. Great damage had been done to the cocoa-nut and bread-fruit trees at Pavai. It is estimated that 35,000 trees had been wantonly destroyed. The whaler Alaska was at Vavan on 14th August, with two humpback whales. The whaler Splendid, of Dunedin, had taken four humpbacks. The James Arnold was at Hepeka Hapai on August 22ud. She had 360 barrels of humpback oil and a large quantity of sperm. She caught three whales While the Active was there, the Magellan Cloud, of Auckland, was at Tongabou. She had captured live fish, equal to 300 barrels. On the 26th August she made fast to a cow and a calf, but the second mate, in lancing, cut the lino, and the fish escaped. The Isabella, of Wellington, had been unfortunate, through defective equipment. Although the boats had fastened to fourteen whales, all escaped but two. At one time the crew ran short of provisions, and had no money to buy any, but they captured a fish, when friends and money arrived in plenty.