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■ ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF NEW , ■ ■ . YORK AT AUCKLAND. ■' Auckland, Monday. General mail summary telegrams to Oc- * tober 10. A fire at Pickering and Abbot’s cotton mills, Blackburn, caused damage to the amount of £20,000, , The Industrial Bank at Newcastle-pn- ■ Tyne has suspended payment. Liabilities, , £IOO,OOO. ■ • _ _ Cape advices state that the position,in the Transvaal Republic is alarming. Owing to the defeat of the Dutch troops the Natives became unmanageable.] The Caffres have driven back the Boors, and the latest telegrams confirm .the report that there is an ‘absolute panic in the outlying districts. The Caffres triumphed all along the line, and while the friendly Amaswazie tribe of Caffres behaved with reckless bravery. The Dutch citizen troops displayed the white feather. President Burghers was so disgusted with the cowardice of the Boors that he implored them to shoot him then and there, that he might not survive the ignominy of defeat. According to the last intelligence the Dutch people fear a Caffre invasion, and there is a panic throughout the Transvaal. Gulu King . is leading forty thousand men to attack the Transvaal, and has threatened a wholesale massacre of Boors. For the present there is no danger of a native outbreak at the Cape, but it is manifest that the Transvaal Boors will require military assistance from us, and for this reason reinforcements have left for Cape Town. Lord Derby’s despatch to Sir Henry Elliott, the British Ambassador, re the Bulgarian at- . rocities, directed him to demand a personal interview with the Sultan, communicate Baring’s report, and demand reparation and justice to the Bulgarians, the immediate rebuilding of the houses and churches, and provision for the restoration of industries, and. assistance to persons reduced to poverty. The Sultan was favorable to the acceptance of Lord Derby’s programme for the autonomy of the provinces, but the Turkish Government was so exasperated by the P.ussian influx to Servia, that the Sultan would have been deposed had he accepted. Russia chose to interrupt the programme, assuming the virtual dismemberment of Turkey, which also prevented its acceptance. In the battle of the 28th September, one Servian battalion went into battle nine hundred strong, and next day only forty answered to . the roll-calk In consequence of the loss of the Strathmore, and the Admiralty having decided to order, cruisers to visit the uninhabited islands ‘ when passing, ’ the Wolverine now bound for the Australian station will, accordingly, examine the Crozets. At the Philadelphia Exhibition, the following New Zealand awards were made .up to the 3rd October —other exhibits remained to be examined :—Canterbury, five awards for wool—- ’ W. S. Peter, Samuel Bealey, Jo n Hall, J. O. ■ Wason, and F. M. Rickman. For wheat and ■’ cereals, Christchurch —W. D. Wood, R. Wilkin, E. H. Banka, P. Cunningham, and J. Cox. • Pbormium fibre—Charles Chimnery. Nelson, award for wool—George Austey. Wellington, award for wool—A. Braithwaite. Feathers and • fma Hector and Liardet. Kauri pine—Walker, ‘ Auckland. Wood extract, W. Sprayling, Tara- ‘ naki. Cape news states that Kaffir town had been taken, and 170 killed. Five thousand huts were burned. ■ The canal from Amsterdam to the North’ Sea has been opened. Disraeli, in a speech before the Buckinghamshire farmers, defended the Government ’ policy, and attributed the Servian declaration of'war to the action of secret societies.
Meetings protesting against the Turkish atrocities and the Government action continue throughout England. Intelligence from Dahomey states that the blockade has - been established, and is still maintained by Commodore Hewitt; but the King of Dahomey will not pay his fine of palm oil, and has got up a little blockade of his own, and has closed the inland lagoons against the English trade. He has strictly prohibited his subjects from dealing with E glish merchants, A war panic occurred on the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange. Stocks fell, and discounts raised to 14 per cent. There is a great religions revival under Moody and Sahkey at Chicago. A Spanish loan of fifteen millions for Cuban war expenses has been issued. The failure of the Iceland fishing season has caused great distress. Eighteen hundred emigrated to Canada. Grasshoppers are causing great destruction in Texas. Fifteen hundred armed Austrian Slavonians entered Bosnia, and urged the Christians to insurrection, ' A secret'alliance is reported between the Emperors of Austria, Russia, and Germany. A despatch from Borne reports a very serious, even alarming, illness of the Pope and Cardinal ’ Antonelli. The Pope has been able to take his walk in the gardens of the Vatican until lately. Sir Thomas White, a member of the Board ; of Aldermen, has been elected Lord Mayor of London. , . The Cork Ferry boat was swamped in Youghal harbor, and fourteen persons were ' drowned, nearly all being farmers and their . wives. Count Von' Arnim has been sentenced to penal servitude for one year. Further news of Chinese persecution Is to hand from Syschien. Placards hostile to ' Christians and Europeans were posted in various places in the market about 9 o’clock on the morning of 20th, and a line of 4000 or 5000 armed men drew. round to prevent the Christians from escape. They manufactured a large wooden cross, and tied on it all the Christians they could catch, and then cut them in pieces. The number of persons killed was eight. The houses of the Christians were pillaged, and about thirty other persons are missing. On the 22nd, the brutes went to the market of Pelinowchen, where they murdered four more Christians. (Communication interrupted.) The ex-Sultan Murad is dead. The Turkish Extraordinary Council was • willing for an armistice for six months, meanwhile carrying out reforms. Mukhtar Pasha advanced to'Montenegro, capturing the entrenchments without opposition. Fifteen thousand Spanish troops were despatched to Cuba in anticipation of a renewal of hostilities. The Servian General has called out all men ■ between eighteen and fifty. Boumania has mustered its army in readiness. Two thousand five hundred Montenegrins attacked -Mukhtar Pasha and drove him to the frontier, killing 800 Turks.
‘ The Montenegrins burned Lehuze and out off the Pasha from reinforcements. At a meeting at St. James’s Hall, Gladstone condemned the Cabinet for pursuing a policy opposed to the wishes of Parliament and the people. He expressed a conviction that making Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria independent of the Ottoman Empire, would settle the difficulty.- ’ . The revolutionists in Mexico are being driven from their strongholds. • - General Guerra has been taken prisoner. England proposed a conference of Great Powers re Eastern difficulties, but _it fell through. It is understood that Russia’s demands were such as could not be met by the conference. Russia offered Roumania absolute independence for permission to march troops through their territory. Roumania consented. ; War preparations in Russia are very active. Servia claims some successes in minor engagements with the Turks. In consequence of the damage done to British trade by the American protective tariff, representations have been made hy Sheffield to Lord Carnarvon, recommending that Britain should place a heavy import duty on American jgoods. The Cabinet, after consideration, decline. - An Imperial edict by China expresses regret for Margary’s murder, and admits the right of foreigners to travel through the country. An envoy was sent to England with a letter of apology. An enthusiastic meeting of Grecians resolved that the position of Greek Provinces in Turkey is intolerable, and resolved to strengthen the army. Russia proposes the occupation of Bulgaria. The Loudon Times declares that in insisting on this, the Emperor had mistaken the mind of Europe. Overtures have been made by Russia to Austria. The Porte grounds its resistance to the proposals of the Great Powers on its inability to control the mob, and the massacre of Christians is threatened. There is terrible suffering in some of the richest parts of Cuba. Forty thousand rations are distributed twice a week. A general insurrection in Algeria is threatened, , Terrible ravages by yellow fever have occurred in the Southern States of America. Lord Derby’s reply to a deputation expressed strong belief in the permanency of peace. He favored local autonsmy.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4876, 7 November 1876, Page 3
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