ADDITIONAL NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Kumara Times, Issue 505, 10 May 1878, Page 2

ADDITIONAL NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

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Auckland, May 7. The Pera correspondent of the Daily Telegraph .says terrible distress exists at Schoulma, where some 250,000 fugitives are now collected. A formal note was sent to the Porte by the English Embassy, representing that unless something was immediately done immense loss of life was certain, in consequence of the appalling destitution that prevails. The utter exhaustion of means hitherto at the disposal of fie Ottoman Government quite precludes, it is stated,-the possibility of offering trauspoit to the sufferers, and the k .Russian and Bulgarian atrocities preveut the wretched . Mussulmans from returning home, even if transports were ready. ! The Porte declares' itself unable tq decide on a place to send these people 1 to, as being used to /the climate of Bulgaria they would soon die if in Syria.,

Hard? times causing more numerous- inquiries in England about New Zealand, especially amongst farmers. : >-.v ; V ', >

Earl Leorim's body was found in a ditch j with the left side'of-his head battered in. The fatal shot was.through the heart, and his left arm was broken; the driver and clerk: were shot in the head. The ground where the murder was committed showed traces qf a hard struggle. A fowling-piece and' part of another gun was found near thie spot. A deep feeling pie vails/every where, on the subject. In the House of Commons, Under-Colonial Secretary Lbwther said there was the. best reason to suppose that the crime was of an agrarian character. The'funerai took place, A vast crowd' assembled,' outside : the church and hissed, hooted, ami cheered.' ' : " ' ' '"' '' ' •"'■' : : j y '' '

MiyQgle, war correspondent of, ,the London Juries, was murdered by the Turks near Maoriritza. '- Drought an r d Fauiine prevail fatfa disastrous!extent in^.lSloqoccp r , v. "** The organiser' of the' Scottish ; hierarchy, Rev: Father FrsLut, rector of the Scottish College, died, atfd ibeqtieathed his private fortune to. the Gatholic Church, in, Scotland, in consequence of the establishment of nisi hierarchy. The Pope nominated the Scotch Episcopate on the 2nd as follows :—Eight Bev. John Strain, D.D., Metropolitan Archbishop of St. Andrew at Edinburgh ; Charles .Eyre, Archbishop of Glasgow ; Macdouald, Bishop of" lachlan, Bishop of Galloway;, arid Macdonald, Bishop of Argyle! r