LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 194, 13 August 1878, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

f Rbdter's Telegrams per Press Agency.] London, August 10. Sir Julius Yogel vindicates the Municipal loan for Dunedin against the depreciatory remarks of the Times. The Daily News reports that there is serious sickness among the troops at Cyprus, but not any deaths. The armed population at Batoum are preparing to resist the Russian occupation. Twenty thousand Turkish volunteers have gone to tfce frontier,

'■ A tornado visited Wallingford,ConneQticiit, ! And thirty .persons were kilte_ aM many j houses demolished. i Martiallh,w hk's been proclaimed iv Bosnia. , _ Sir Sta!ff6*_d Northcote states that the estimates for the Kaffir war were within ■ .£-00,000. Lepard's paper-making establishment at Covent Garden has been burned down. The loss is £.30,000. Parliament is now te'xpe'cte'd td fee -pro rogued on the 16th insltft-nt. The corvette Cormorant, bound to tbe Australian st*4Ho_, sp'runk a, Teak *__. *t_.'e Channel, fhfe ifefftirns 'to 'C'lVaM^. The hJo.e'y .Vnarke*'} 1_ stringent. The bank minimum is unchanged. The bank is j charging o per cent. Australian securities continue depressed with other stocks . The increasing value of money is prcd_ci_°temporary inactivity. ° The corn market is flat. The weather is spl&ndid for harvest operations; Tbe first innings of the Liverpool eighteen closed for *1, and the -Second for 91. The Australians \V'o'_ in one innings. , Later. Consols, 95 J. Bank market rate, 4 per cent. Adelaide Wheat, 50s to 51s. Sew Zealand 5 per cent loan,Jlol. August 11.' On the 6th instant the Austrians obtained a victory over Jthe Bosnian insurgents and captured a battalion of Turkish troops of the reserve. A Bangniuary engagement ensued the next day at Lynhingi. Const A^Tixoi'LE, August 11. The Russians have occupied Varna. Greece is making efforts to obtain Crete ns a concessibn in the interests of peace. The Porte refuses to grant snch a demand. August 12. Safat Pacha bas been created a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India. Much sickness continues in Cyprus. Vienna, August 9. The resistance to the Austrian advance in Bosnia is increasing with continuous fighting.

[Special ] London, August 12th. Mr Forster's refusal to pledge himself to accept the decision of the Liberal Committee of Bradford at the next election is causing much comment as affecting the attempt to attempt to establish the Caucus system iv England. It is believed that the Bosnian insurgents number 100,000 fighting men. English, French, and Austrian railway schemes have been submitted to the Porte, including one through the Euphrates Valley. The Chimborazo has arrived at Plymouth in 39 days from Adelaide, having anticipated the Suez mail. The Canadian papers exhibit enthusiasm at the appointment of the Marquis of Lome and the presence among them of the Princess Louise. They say this policy has sealed the union of the colonies with the empire. A portion of the Indian Contingent bas \ embarked for India. •' There haTe been serious riots at Odessa. Democratic meetings in favor of tbe annexation of Tyrol and Trieste have re-com-menced. The Irißh Sunday Closing Bill has passed the House of Commons.