TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1011, 21 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS.

|RETTTER'S SPECIAL TEIEGBAMS TO THE JPBESS AGENCY.]

THEWAR.

Enormous Russian Losses. Evacuation of Tirnova. Another Prussian Defeat. Bombay, September 16. A Russian official despatch says that the Turks unsuccessfully attacked G-rivitza, There was heavy cannonading on the 15th at Plevna. During the late bombardment the Russian loss was four hundred oJlicers and three thousand men killed. Total killed and wounded, twelve thousand. The Roumanians lost three hundred. A Turkish official report, dated the 11th, says the Russians have evacuated Tirnova to reinforce Biela. Sulicman Pasha reports on the 15th that the destructive cannonade on the Russian position at Trojan continues,

Mehoniet Ali on the loth defeated the twelfth Russian corps with great loss, and pursued them to Banikolm. Colonel Baker, with the cavalry, is operating successfully. Bombay, September 19. A Turkish official report says the Nicholas Redoubt at Plevna lias been abandoned, from motives of strategy. The Russian assault was repulsed, with enormous loss. The rumours of an armistice and mediation are semi-officially denied. INTEEPKOVINCIAL. [PEB PEKSS AG-ENCY.] Dunedin, September 21. A meeting of citizens is to be held for the purpose of having this province represented at the Australian Juvenile Exhibition. The " Times " this morning states that the Dunedin Museum will have to be closed directly if steps are not taken to supply means for carrying it on. It has no endowment nor annual grant, and for some time past the necessary charges have been borne by the Curator out of his own pocket.