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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 71, 23 June 1877, Page 2

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June 16. Money cheaper. Bank muMmnm unchanged. Reserve thirteen millions. Consols, 94|. - Colonial securities firm. Woof m keen demand. Prices higher.. Salesclosed on the 26th. Wheat dropping; Adelaide, 63s to '655 ; New Zealand,"s6s to 60s. The ship Cairo is posted missing at Lloyds. The levy of conscripts m the Basque is. regarded as dangerous. ' r "■ ' [From the "Post."] xr * Hobart -Pasha's daring defeat of the Russians on the r Danube is F the common subject of table talk. 'While' his vessel was lying near Rustchuck, about 130 miles from the '•mouth 'of the river, he was informed that the navigation was unsafe, as the , Russians were laying '• torpedoes ; it would be the safest plan for him to leave his ship and go. to Constantinople overland.- , This he declined - to do, -and at once made Teady'to run the gauntlet of the Russian guns. 'It was already dark .and upon nearing Galatz he found; .that heavily armeji Russian batteries commanded "the river._ The batteries (writes the corres- _ pondent of the Daily Telegraph) were reached, and by the light of Russian <• lanterns, heavy guns and soldiers' "m f i great numbers, were clearly visible to those who manned- the Retnymo, when a rocket was sent up from the Roumanian shore to apprise the Muscovite j Generals of Hobart Pasha's conung. j | His boat went by at twenty knIVKcC \ hour, and soon -all danger was dverV When satisfied .he had nothing to fear ' from his enemies, Hobart ordered the crew of the Rethymo,* which carries 40- '■ pounder Armstrong guns, to throw one shell into the centre of the Russian camp, an order which was quickly., obeyed, the missile bursting m the midst of the Muscovite tents. - Disclosures of Russian cruelty Kaye justl -been'made r ? iai- _ a^^PjEMu^acntary: \ of the treatment of union- 'Greeks- m Poland, on the ground that these, were , gradually beißg^ahsformedin^ Roman- ■ Catholics. The Rjissian:authorities deterniined to reassert the'ldy^iy of J their : co-religionists to \ Oriental jCSiristianity. • jColonel Mansfield, British^ 0 Goristu-' " at ! Warsaw^ was ; on :tKe spot' - and saw how this^was effebted/Dy whipi ; shot; knout, : lance, Vatid gaol, and those ' whoirefusWl to sign a declaration pro-' posed-by the ßussian authorities re^ ■'■ ceived from Cossacks, every-adiilt man: fifty blows, every woman twenty-five,/ ' /every child ten ; some women rece^d f 100. Cpn -January 1; :1875y Colonel Mansfield reports that i the details jof antagonism between the authorities and „ peasants have bebn ; most harrowing. ,\fii one village a peasant suffocated himself and family with ".-; charcoal rather than have his children baptized . v by' ; the i Government parish -pope. Peasants were 'assembled and beaten by. the Cossacks until the military surgeons stated : that more blowff^ would^endanger fVi&i'li. They were then . driven^through halffrozen rivers up to their waists into the parish j church, ithrougK^filesr Of soldiers, where their names were en- ■ tered m petitions ;e^pressjng;- their .., ■boundless devotion t6^ their - august / sovereign liberator, and their readiness to walk m. the course traced but by: his • powerful imperial will. ; SucK- is the pious "zeal with-which holy Russia propagates Christian orthodoxy. ; '■■-■>_