YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

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

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[eeDTHB'S SPECIAL TELESEAMS TO THB PEESS AOENOY.] The Investment of Plevna. Enormous Eussian Losses. Sulieman Pasha Successful. Evacuation of Adrahan. Bombay, September 18. A Russian official despatch reports that the Turks on the 12th inst. recovered three positions lost on the 11th. The Russians have completely invested Plevna by lines and trenches. The Russian losses were enormous. Sulieman Pasha has silenced the Russian batteries and now holds the Trojan road. The Russian army, after several sanguinary engagements, has wholly withdrawn to the west of Jantra. Ardahan has been evacuated. AUSTRALIAN. [PEE PEESS AGENCY.] Defeat and Resignation of the Sydney Ministry. Sydney, September 20. The Government were defeated on an attempt to pass the Supply Bill. The House has adjourned to enable them to consider their position. Arrived —Easby and Tararua. The Government has refused a dissolution without supplies. The Government have tendered their resignation. INTERPROVINCIAL. Another Fire at Auckland. The Suicide at Nelson. The Australian Cricketers. Accident to the Schooner Zior, and Loss of Two of her Crew. Stranding of the Steamer Wallace. The Kumara Bank Kobbery. Dunedin High School Commission. Auckland, September 20. Waikato, a noted old chief, died on Monday. A fire broke out at seven to-night in a two-storey boarding house in Hobson street, occupied by Johnson. The building was blazing fiercely, the whole contents being on fire. When the hose was fixed to the hydrant of the new water supply the force put the fire out like a candle. This is the first occasion on which the water was tried for fire. The result excites general admiration. But for the prompt extinguishment of the fire a large block, including the Governor Browne Hotel, must have been destroyed. The burnt house was completely gutted. Scarcely anything was saved. It was insured in the Imperial; amount unknown. Wellington, September 20. According to a letter received here from Conway, of the Australian Cricketers, it is gathered that the proposed trip of the Australian team to New Zealand is not now likely to take place. It appears the Australians calculated upon the takings at the Wellington cricket ground, which is_enclosed, to go a considerable way in recouping their outlay, but the terms offered by the Wellington cricketers were considered the most illiberal of any town in the colony, and it is thought that all arrangements for playing in New Zealand will break down in consequence. The letter adds that arrangements for a trip home are going on well, that all members of the team have signed articles, and that there is a strong probability that they will secure the services of Evans, the famous bowler. Nelson, September 20.

An inquest was held this afternoon on Dr Bligh. From rambling letters, written a few hours before bis death to a friend, it was clear that he meditated suicide ; but Dr Boor, who made a post-vwrtcin examination, failed to detect any indication of the presence of sufficient poison to cause death. He found a very small quantity of pruesic acid, but he knew that deceased had been taking it as a medicine. The brain was lively, but the lungs nil showed symptoms of old and serious disease, and Dr Boor's opinion was that a man in deceased's state of mind might have raised the poison to his lips, and the mere idea of committing suicide would cause such shock to the system as to cause death. The jury returned a verdict "That death was caused by paralysis of the heart, produced by shock to tlie system." The melancholy affair has cast quite a gloom over the town, as Dr Bligh was a general favorite, professionally aud socially. The schooner Zior, which left Timaru for Hokitika on August Ist, put in here last night. She had been for a long time in company a fleet of other small vessels waiting' to enter Hokitika. Last Sunday, the ...jlj fleet had to run for it. On that evening, a tremendous sea broke on board, bursting in 'the cabin house; one of the timbers striking Charles Aitkin in the face with such force, as to kill him instantaneously, and

washing Moreton Mathieson, who was steering, overboard. The vessel is considerably damaged, and will have to repair here. Hokitika, September 20. Scarlet fever prevails among children here to an alarming extent. Several deaths have occurred tbis week. Judge Weston has lost a son and a daughter. Numbers of families are absent from the public schools. The steamer Wallace got ashore on the North Spit on entering the river this morning. She is expected to get off in a tide or two. Other steamers and vessels crossed safely on the same tide.

At the Supreme Court J. Heenan, for perjury, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment.

Robert Ho?g, for robbery of the Bank of New South Wales, Kurnara, in which lie was accountant, was to-day sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labor. Dunedin, September 20. At Roxburgh yesterday Warden Simpson refused to allow six applications for land, out of sixty-three, as not being bona fide. Henry John Tancred, Wm. Fraser (Dunstan), and W. H. Pearson (Invercargill), have been appointed by the Governor to act as a Commission of Inquiry regarding the Dunedin High School.