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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5113, 13 August 1877, Page 2

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f REUTER'S SPECIAL 10 PRESS AGENCY./ t WAR HEWS. ■ THE DEFENCES OF THE HELLES-' PONT INSPECTED BY ENGLISH OFFICERS.. THE PORTE . DETERMINED TO DEFEND THEM TO THE END. POLICY' OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. j Bombay, August 10. Admiral Hornby and General Dickson have inspected the lines of Gallipoli, and have reported to Layard, the British Minister at Constantinople; ■ • The Porte has informed the British Government that it will complete the forts at Gallipoli, and increase the garrison sufficiently to defend itself. ■ * ■ : " London, August 9. Motions on the Eastern question were withdrawn in both Houses of Parliament, it being considered injurious to the public interest to discuss them. The policy of the Government will still be one of non-intervention, so.long as English interests are not affected. Turkish accounts say that the Russians attacked Lovatz, and were repulsed. | EUROPEAN NEWS. FLOATING OF THE ADELAIDE LOAN. EUROPEAN COMMERCIAL INTELj LIGENCE. ; . ' London, August 10. The South Australian four per cent, half million loan was subscribed for fourfold. The minimum was ninety-six and a half. There were, a hundred and forty-nine tenders ranging from ninety-six and a half to ninety-eight t The average allotment. price is ninety-seven and a half. Wheat is dull. Adelaide, sixty-six to sixtyeight. ; New Zealand, fifty-eight to sixty.' The 1 weather is unsettled. j AUSTRALIAN NEWS. A ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP FOR AUCKLAND. I Melbourne, Saturday. Late London papers state that at a consistory held at" Rome on June 25th Dr. Ohareyne was appointed Archbishop of Auckland. i