CABLE NEWS.
Sydney, Saturday. The Easby has arrived, and the Wakatipu sailed. The City of New York sailed yesterday for Auckland. Melbourne, Monday.™ Newmarket Handicap— Tom Kirk, 1; Meto" 2; Don Alphonso, 3. Town Plate— Pride of theffllls,l; Sheet Anchor, 2; Union Jack, 3.. London, March 7. The Porte objects to the demands of. Montenegro for the cession of territory and seaport. Russia is still expectant, and, pending an answer to her circular, has issued, an ukase ordering the organisation of ninearmy corps. The, Porte maintains, the same confident attitude it assumed when the Conference was siting, and is prepared to accept war in preference to prolonged suspense. On the other hand, Russia objects to the suggestion of a year's grace, and will withdraw from the treaty of 1856 unless thePowers co-operate to obtain the acceptance by the Porte of the original programme of the Conference. In the Turkish Budget the estimated expenditure for the present year for the army is set down at. fourteen aud a half millions; for the navy, ten and' threequarter millions. Hayes has nominated W. Maxwell Ewarts as Secretary of State, and Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 61, 12 March 1877, Page 2
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192CABLE NEWS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 61, 12 March 1877, Page 2
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