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La .Tuesday. - '* Suez mail news per Ajawata :— The potatoe disease has- broken outto a frightful extent near Goole. There iSi every^ iprospect of a potatoe famine, which wilTordy be met by importations from abroad. On October Ist all general officers 76 years old were placed on the retired list. ' t XY yX'---XyXyX'xXX-yX The trial trip, of the new ironclad Shannon was unsuccessful; She was over-masted and , her engines did not wtJrk properly. A Most disastrous floods have devastated South- Walea. Railway traffic suspended. One millions' worth of crops for a<. circuit of miles has been destroyed.-.: ._ ■• L The inhabitants of the Caucasians are leaving for Asia Mmor,:Russia's attempt '.'to interfere being unsuccessful. A The 0 ttoman Bank has negojkXZjk a loan of five 'millions sterhng _o|^pirkey. 7 '■.-.;. -,"_..- ." . ... L , : -.yYXI.y ■■'■:: ■General Schieldehi commanding the Russians, at the battte; of Plevna on July 25th, has been sent to Moscow to be tried by court-martial. ; In many "Htmgariah; churches the "Te Deum" was sung in-hbnbr of Turkish victories. ; Kossuth, appeals *te;hiß countrymen to take up arms against Russia. "*
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 104, 17 October 1877, Page 2
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