LATE NEWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 439, 13 September 1877, Page 3

LATE NEWS.

(From our Exchanges.) London, September 4. Dr. Buchanan, formerly a resident of Dunedin, died to-day. Despite the fiction of the G-overnment, the French elections will give the Republicans an overwhelming majority. Bombay, September 7. Earl Derby, at Liverpool, said the present lime is unfavorable for intervention in the war by third parties. When the time arrives, and perhaps it is not far distant, England will not lose the opportunity. Mehemet Ali telegraolis that -Eyoub Pasha has driven the twelfth Eussian corps across the river Lom. The Eussian loss was 3000, and the Turks 900. Widdin has been reinforced.

Madame Thiers is claiming the right to arrange the cortege. She wishes the presence but repudiates the authority of the Senate, the Chamber and Government participating only by paying military honors. Bombay, September 8. Servia, in replying to British representation against warlike preparations, said she must be prepared for every emergency. Interviews will shortly take place between Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy, of Austria.

London, September 8. Ostnan Pasha reports that desperate fighting has now being going on in tho neighborhood ot'Loftscha (Lovatz). The main forces were engaged on both sides. No decisive advantage has been gained on either side, and the fighting still continue?. Osman admits a loss of 5000 in killed, and 1000 in wounded. The Russian losses cannot be estimated. A simultaneous attack on three different points of the Eussian line from Sistova to Gabrova is expected at once. When reinforcements from Adrianople come up the attack at the Chipka Pass will be renewed by the Turks. The English Press consider; the Russian position hopeless. The Russians admit a defeat at Kazeleno, fifteen miles east of Biela, with heavy loss. They had to fall back on Ostviza. The Russians are now concentrating at Biela, and have been compelled to raise the siege of Rustchuk. The Turks threaten the bridge over the Pirgos. A battle has commenced at Plevna, but the result is not yet known. The Auckland Harbor six per cent, loan of £31,400 has been subscribed for fivefold. The allotments ranged from 105 upwards. Bombay, September 9. M. Thiers' funeral passed off quietly. A Yienna despatch states that Nicksen has capitulated. There is nothing fresh concerning the engagement around Plevna. Servian (?) troops have entered Bulgaria.