YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1045, 31 October 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[SPECIAL TO TUB SYDNEY “HERALD.”] Retreat of Sulieman Pasha. London, October 24. Sulieman Pasha’s main army has retreated to Rasgrad, The retreat was threatened (caused ?) by Q-eneral Zimmerman’s advance from the Dobrudscha. The Indian Famine. Prospects More Cheering. Disastrous Bank Failure. Kaffir Outbreak. London, October 24. The Indian Viceroy’s latest telegrams report a further fall of rain, and that the prospects are more cheering. The Famine Relief Fund amounts to half a million pounds. Mr Gladstone is paying a series of private visits in Ireland. He addressed the students of Dublin University, and was warmly received. The Blackheath highwayman has been sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. The Pomeranian Bank at Stettin has failed. The liabilities are twenty-six millions of marks. The event has caused widespread disaster, and public worts have been stopped. There has been a Kaffir outbreak on the frontier. Two attacks were made by them but were repulsed. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, October 30. Mr Parkes has been elected for Canterbury. Mr Robertson has been nominated for several constituencies. INTERPROVINCIAL. [per press agency,] The Timaru Show. Auckland, October 30. Mr Long, surveyor, died suddenly at Onehunga. Morphia, which he had been using for neuralgia, lay by his bed-side, but medical opinion is favourable to the belief that death was caused from apoplexy. Wellington, October 30. Nominations for the Wellington Cup close on Friday, November 2nd. Timaru, October 30. The Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Show promises to be a great success. To-day the sheep and implements were on the ground. The former were a splendid lot. They were judged during the afternoon. Tomorrow is to be a general holiday, being the actual show day. The Primitive Methodist Bazaar, held in Jones and Hart’s repository, opened to-day, and was visited by large crowds of people. Dunedin, October 30. In answer to a requisition, Mr Leary has consented to contest the Mayoral election. George Millar, of the Otago Steam Laundry, was proceeded against this morning for a breach of the Employment of Females Act, by causing women to work in his laundry on Saturday afternoons. Judgment was reserved. Some interesting disclosures are expected to be made at George Proudfoot’s trial tomorrow.