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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 22, 3 January 1877, Page 3

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The Turkish, commander of the Black ' Sea fleets addr^ing his men, said* " This year you/ are destined, to fight against enemjdis of our religion. Remember that^he sailors of the' Black Sea gained/glory at Sebastapol." Theresas been.' an -inundation at* Adrianople, and thousands of houses Lwashecfcawiiy. . " L'Opinion," a Roman journal, says that the Marquis of Salisbury's declaration excludes the idea of England and Russia" going to war, but regards war between Russia and Turkey as inevitable. ' Sir Julius Yogel, interviewed by a i Frisco reporter, said that, if. the Colonial Government, had negotiated for an American subsidy it would probably ■ have been secured-, but the contractors insisted on receiving it. He thought the colonies had not been fairly treated by America. The extravagant promises , of a subsidy made at the outset were never fulfilled. If the Australian line was worth having, America should as- ' sist, -If the present contract broke down, he did not think the colonies would take any further action whatever. The floor of Moore's opera house at Sacramento fell into a livery stable be^ low. .Seven hundred people were bre- *■" cipitated, of whom, seven were killed and a hundred wounded, c The ship Manchester has been lost ofiLQkaab. All hands, except the captain^tsteward, were drowned. She 7 y &4^ Di & from Liverpool to Calcutta. I Thirty-two of the crew were lost. '• Twenty-one battalions of infantry, and seven regiments of cavalry, with 80 gana. have been told off by the BriiaE-Government for service m the Eas^f necessary, for the protection of British interests. Bismarck has visited London. In a speech delivered on the 4th December, at Berlin, he said that, thanks to Germany, England would probably allow the inevitable Turkish war to be localised. Austria was placed m a most •difficult position by recent events. * The Roumanian Government have notified to the Prefect of the early arri> yal, on their way to the Danube, of a r hundred and fifty, thousand Russian troops. A" Times." despatch says that. Turkey has withdrawn her troops from Bosnia and Herzegovina with the intention of not resisting Austrian occupation of those pjpvinces. In the event of a Russian invasion Austria has ordered the occupation of the Transylvanian and Moldavia passes the monient Russia enters Moldavia. Russia has placed torpedoes at the entrances to ports of trade. Russia is m a perfect state of collapse and. bankruptcy. Three large islands, one 500 miles square, and with a population of 240,000, and a large extent of coast at the mouth of the Megna^ India, have been completely submerged by a storm wave. The people were m their beds, but many , escaped oy ascending." trees. It is believed that not one-third of the population survived. The stench from the bodies is insufferable, and cholera is feared. , . 120,000 persons perished m a cyclone which passed through Eastern Bengal. The Government are taking active measures for the relief of the sufferers. The Cuban insurgents gained another victory. . . r^>- • The American-English extradition treaty, has been re-arranged. Owing to a threatened insurrection, . Poland has been' declared m a state of siege; ' , - ' The Presidential election m America resulted— Hayes, 185 ; Tilden, 184 The accuracy of the return is disputed by the Democratic party, and it is not unlikely that the matter will come before Congress for settlement. The majority of . that body being Republicans, it is thought that Hayes* majority will be sustained. The new Extradition treaty having ' been agreed upon, immediate steps were taken to arrest all forgers, jfthe Spanish authorities at Havanna cftpfarea a boat near Baracbu with four insurgents, on board, carrying correspondence from Cuban refugees m New to the insurgents, stating that an ' expedition with arms, ammunition, and money was on its way to the island, under command of Quesada. The. steamer Monteizuma was seized by and the Captain and three-passengers were killed. "Forty-five thousand , men have been thrown out of employment at Bethlehem, Par/Oby the stoppage of the coalmines. A revolution, headed by Colonel Alsiha, Minister of War, broke out m Buenos' Ayres, which is m a state of soige. ' Telegrams from Europe m the middle of November related to active military preparations, but were less threatening . at the beginning of the present month. All^bldiers on furlough m Ireland have beeS ordered to join their regiments. All • furloughs have been temporarily suspended; The" authorities of Daven- . port-Dockyard have received orders to prepare the ironclad .turret ships Cyclops and Hydra for immediate active service. Great activity prevails m Woolwich Arsenal. An imperative ordefr> was issued ;that the production of riffe-ball cartridge should be increased to; two millions per week. This.wasexplained as being consequent on- the change to the Martini-Heiiri rifle m India. , . , The" <* Journal de St. Petersburg ".is responsible for* remarkable; statement made m its columns to the effect that the Pope" has designated Mgr. Beckr, general of the Jesuit Order, as the only person capable of successfully maintain-v ing after him the struggle m defence of" theXSurch upon, whicn he has entered. Father Beckr, seeing Romish . power to

be irrevocably doomed m Europe, hopes to gain a, footing for it m Asia. His Elan is to - buy Palestine as cheaply as c can get it from die Porte and make Jerusalem the Rome of the future. Mrs Florence Bravo, it would appear, is still as .attached to the G-erman oaths as m the days of her first widowhood ; for it is rumoured amongst returning tourists froih the Rhine district that sh,e has been seen daily— foot this year at Eissingen, but at 32ms—^listening to the afternoon band from amongst the cushions of such an imitation of a Bath chair as can be'provided at that select and charming German watering-place. Her appearance is-. .certainly altered since she was last seen at Balham, and she has not only assumed another name, but the colour of her. hair has-been changed from flaxetf to brown, and her widow's weeds have" been discarded. The correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus," writing from Philadelphia, says :— Travellers by rail m the United States are greatly annoyed by clouds of cinders from the locomotive chimney. On warm days . the oar windows must, be opened to prevent suffocation, but as soon as .they are lifted a stream of cinders flows m, unless the wind, as is seldom the case, blows from a favourable direction. In the journey which some Australians (portion of a numerous company) lately made through Pennsylvania, the- supply of cinderswas so abundant that it took each person about 20 minutes, at the close of the day, to wash the black grit out of his hair. The "Ottawa Citizen," of the 13th October, says that two young men entered a schoolhbuse m Ramsay, after the pupils had been dismissed for the day, and, -without any explanation, seized the mistress. She attempted to J scream, when they gagged and outraged her. Knowing both the men, she threatened to bring them to justice, and they seized her again and cut her tongue out. She fell to the floor unconscious, and the ruffians escaped. Some time after, the woman recovered her senses, and crawled -to the blackboard. Here, after much struggling, she managed to write on the board the names of her murderers and a brief account of the affair. At last, 1 weakened'from the loss of blood, she fell on the floor and died.