LATEST NEWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 450, 1 December 1877, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

*. SUPPLEMEN TAET TELEGKAM3.

(Prom our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Friday, Nov. 30. Duneciin Races —Maiden : Luna, 1; Sapphira, 2. St. Andrews : Unknown, ] ; Cloth of Gold, 2. Selling : Larry, 1. Spring Handicap : Blue Peter, 1 ; Swede,.2. Trotting: Snip, 1; Black boy, 2-

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL,

1500 TUBES PRISONERS

DEFEAT OF CHEFKET PASHA

CAPTUBE OF GURUIGI DUBRUK BY THE RUSSIANS, AND 30.000 TUBES TAKEN PRISONERS.'

CLEARING THE TURKS FROM THE BALKAN PASSES.

The 'Frisco mail has arrived at Auckland, and the Suez at. Glenelg. Immediate danger from the Indian famine has disappeared.

Lord Derby declares that England has ro chance of mediating at present. The last 'Frisco mail wis landed in London in forty-two days from Sydney. in a battle before Ear's on' October 15 the Russians captured 18,000 men, 2000 horses, and a large quantity of munitions. In Bulgaria General Gourko has completed the investment of Plevna, defeating Chefkej Pasha in sevpral bloody engagements. Oil October 24th Guruigi Dubruk was captured, after a day's engagement, two Pashas, 30,000 infantry, and one regiment of cavalry being taken prisoners. Teliche was subsequently carried by an assault of. the Imperial Guards, who attacked the position simultaneously with the assault on Guruigi Dubruk. The attacking force were nearly decimated, and Orchantie was threatened.

Ibe general position, according to Incest dates, is that Plevna is closely invested and that Kars is ready to capitulate. ' ' i Erz [f"m is occupied by the Russians, who have Mukhter Pasha beate* on aU points. buheman Pasha u chewed by the Czarewitch along the line oj the Lorn and remains inactive, his communication with Silistria and Varoa bemg menaced by the advance of ueneral and the massing of a array between Tirnova and Osman

. J - fle Porte is Unable to put another army Ui the held. J

The Russians are calling out all their reserves and Cossacks, and are embodying 103 infantry battalions. Armenia, is practically lost to the Porte, and the Russians are clearing the Balkan Passes of Turks.

PARLIAMENTARY. • • . (From our Wellington correspondent.) _ Mr. Bowen is now writing for the ' Ivew Zealand Times,! .which ft .is understood he edits after the Ist of January. The Loan Bill will be opposed. The Supplementary Estimates come down to-night. The Education Bill will r*ceiT« tha Cfovfci-

nor's assent, to-day, the Council not haying persisted in itß amendmants. The Lands Bill has been read a second time in the Council, arid referred to the Waste Lands Committee.

The Mines Bill advanced sixty-six clauses last night without amendment, and will probably go tbrotigh to-day, and will law.

No progress was made in either House ro--day. For two hoars the Housed disputed_ about- Ministerial residences, and the Council - about Standing Orders. Nevertheless a lot of business will be got through before midnight. ... Last night the Bill to reduce Ministers, salaries was thrown out after a division by a majority of one—thirty-otie to thirty. The ex-Ministers opposed the Bill. Mr.. Stafford and several Government supporters' joined them. It is not thought that the House will sit after Wednesday next.

Messrs. litdeb and Geoege will hbld their monthly sales on the 12th December. Messhs. Jjenjtison and BEADSHAvrw-ill.Sell the premises lately occupied by Louis Goy Tan in Levea-street, Naseby, on Monday next, 3rd inst.

A notice in our advertising columns warn ß persons who have not yet paid their rates tha*> they will be liable to be proceeded after Ist January neit for their recovery. It is notified that the pound lately erected by Mr. P. M'Uluskey is the County pound, and that Mr. M'Cluskey is appointed poundkeeper.

In the short discussion which took place in the House of Representatives on the postal subsidies, Mr. Llacandrew took occa-' sion to l egret that the Colony had not long ago established a direct steam service with Europe, via the Cape or the Straits of Magellan, both, for postal and immigration purposes.

At the last meeting of the Tincent County Council it was resolved that the "Chairman's salary be £3OO for the enduing year. A letter was read from Yincent Pyke; Esq., resigning his position, as Chairman, but afterwards, on the unanimous vote of the Council he was re-elected. A large amount of business, in the shape of accepting tenders, principally for roads and bridges, was transacted, among which was the agreeing to a proposition by Mr. Pyke that the sum of 10,000 be deposited hi one of the banks at interest. Happy Vincent!

An unfortunate accident occurred yesterday to' the oceupants of a buggy which was heing driven down the cutting into the town. Shortly after entering the siding the breeching got out of order, and the horse commenced playing up, the result being that the buggy was capsized over the bank. Mrs. Joseph Creighton, one of the occupants, sustained a fracture of her arm and had Ker head very badly cut A little child—the daughter, we understand, of Mr. Jno. Tait—received some severe injuries, but is at present progressing favorably towards recovery. The other occupants of the buggy fortunately escaped uninjured. The horse managed to' extricate itself scathless, but the buggy is considerably damaged. It is strange the only accidents that have occurred since the cutting has been made—about nine years—have taken place lately. It was only about a fortnight ago that a horse and cart belonging to Air. James Blown backed over the bank in almost the same place, the only damage then being a broken shaft.