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Loxdox, August 17. Relations between Austria and Turkey continue unsettled. No convention is yet signed.
Great military preparations continue in Bosnia. Three Austriau regiments, refusing to advance, were decimated ; and continuing mutinous, more executions followed. Those remaining were then sent prisoners to Austria. The Servian loan of seventy four million •francs was negotiated with a Paris banker.
The Monitevr announced a change of the Egyptian Ministry to-day. The administration of the country is entirely out of the hands of the Khedive. Mr Rivers Wilson is Finance Minister.
The pretended ultimatum of Germany to the Porte is discredited.
Hoedal, (who recently attempted to assasBinate the Emperor of Germany) has been beheaded.
Colonel Stanley stated in the House of Commons that news from Cyprus was favorable, but he did not explain the difference from the Daily News' account, which says : * The efficiency of tbe corps is paralysed by fever. Two-thirds of the medical staff are down, very ill. Five deaths."
The Bank of England minimum is unchanged. There have been heavy losses on the Stock Exchange settlement. The Bank reserve is slightly hettei*. Business in all departments of the Stock Exchange is dull. The market for Australian securities shows do sign of recovery. Corn Market.— Wheat has advanced from ft shilling to eighteenpenee,
The second innings of Lancashire closed ior 162. The Australians in their second innings made 47 without the loss of a wicket, when the game was drawn. Heavy rain spoilt tho match.
The Royal assent bas beeu given to tbe Fiji Marriages Bill. The assassin of General Mesentyne, chief of the St. Petersburg private police, has escaped,
Austria is still further mobilising troops. Consols 95. Bunk rate 5 per cent. Market rate 4 3- percent.
Adelaide wheat and flour unchanged i
New Zealand fives, 101. Constantinople, August 18. • Tho Russian troops at San Stefauo embark to-morrow, and the British fleet in the Sea of Marmora leaves immediately afterwards.
The evacuation of Batouui takes place in a fortnight.
VIENNA, AugUSt 18. The Austrian* have gained a complete victors over the Bosnians at Delilovas.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 173, 20 August 1878, Page 2
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