ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1046, 3 November 1877, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, November 3. The City of Sydney has arrived. Passengers for New Zealand—Saloon: Mr D. L. Murdoch, wife and son, Mr Morrow, Mrs Morrow, Mr and Mrs Urquhart,Miss Bassett, Messrs Barber, Roberts, Shakspeare, Begg, John Heeles, Mr and Mrs Grey, Mr Seer, Miss Gall, Mr Winstanley ; and 27 in the steerage. At Plevna the Russian and Roumanian sappers are close to the first Turkish parallel. The Turks re-victualled Plevna on September 23rd, sending twenty battalions of infantry, two field batteries, and a regiment of cavalry into the works. The Russian loss before Plevna to September 24th was 2,500 killed and wounded. On September 12th the Russians attacked Plevna and carried two detached redoubts, and the central Gravitza redoubt. After great carnage Osman Pasha drove General Skoveloff out of the flanking redoubts after they had been occupied for twenty-five hours. Osman failed to retake the Gravitza redoubt on the subsequent night. An attack in force by the Roumanians, was repulsed with slaughter in an assault on the second Gravitza redoubt. Since these actions there has been no fighting before Plevna. All is quiet at Shipka. Mehemet Ali, commanding the Eastern Bulgarian army, advanced all along the line on September 20th. There was fighting that day and on the 21st. The Turks failed at all points and fell back to their former position beyond Lorn. A large army is collecting at Orchanie for the relief of Plevna. There was heavy fighting in Armenia on the 2nd to the 4th of October inclusive between the Grand Duke Nicholas and Mukhtar Pasha. The Russians failed in their object to cut off Mukhtar from his base. The losses on both sides were over 1000. The Russians admit a loss since the commencement to the close of September of 52,000 killed and wounded. The Montenegrins were everywhere victorious in Herzegovina, the half which they occupy. The attack by them on the Albanian frontier failed.

Servia and Greece are preparing for war with Turkey. A special session of Congress meets on the 15th, to make appropriations for the army. A war between Mexico and United States is imminent. Hostilities may begin at any moment.

A storm occurred on the Atlantic coast on October 4th, resulting in wrecks and serious destruction of property.