TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1025, 8 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS

[EBUTEE'S SPBOIAIi TBLEGBAMB TO THE FBES3 AGENCY.]

THE WAR.

Another Turkish Victory. Bombay, October 3. Mukhtar Pasha has gained a complete victory, and driven [the Russians] beyond the frontier. The bombarding eastward of Plevna con-

tinues. INTERPROVINCIAL.

[pee pbess agency.] Roman Catholic fission Services. Wellington, October 8. The last of the Roman Catholic Mission services of the Rev. Father Henneberry, was held last night at St. Mary’s. About one thousand people were present, the aisles and even sanctuary being crowded. After the sermon every Catholic in the church held aloft a lighted wax taper, and repeated after the priest the baptismal promises made at the font. The rev. gentleman will hold mission services throughout the Wellington district, after which it is understood he will visit the principal towns of New Zealand. During his stay he has administered the temperance pledge to over fifteen hundred people, and yesterday about two thousand walked in procession from the one Catholic Church to the other, headed by Bishop Redwood. The Hon. Wm, Fox was on the one side and the Catholic Priest on the other. Such a revival has not been seen in Wellington before. For the last fortnight St. Mary’s has been crowded three times daily, from 5.30 a.m. till ten at night. Another suicide has occurred at the Hutt. Fanny Mason, a girl twenty-one years of age, was found dead in her bed. Three empty chlorodyne bottles were beside her. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [Per Albion via Hokitika.] Melboubne, October 3. It a preliminary meeting for forming an India famine relief fund, the Q-overnor being present, the sum of £2BOO was subscribed, includ ug £2OOO donated by Mr W. J. Clarke. Sevoa gentlemen gave £IOO each. The movement is being warmly supported. The Tararua left hero last Wednesday for the Bluff, but broke down on Thursday near Wilson’s Promontory, and wais towed back on Saturday morning by the Claud Hamilton. She had her crank shaft broken. The passengers all folloiv on to-morrow per Claud Hamilton, An old man seventy-seven years old, named Arnold, was murdered on Saturday by a young man named Black, who, after brutally kicking him, cut his head open with a bill-hook. The murder is in custody. A considerable quantity of rain lias fallen, and the country is looking splendid. Business is improving. Charles rope, tragedian, visits New Zealood shorty.