LATEST CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5116, 16 August 1877, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

LATEST WAR NEWS, HORRIBLE. ATROCITIES BY THE r. TURKS. THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS . KILLED. .. - - ... THE TURKISH BEY RESPONSIBLE. Sydney, Wednesday. A Sydney Morning Herald’s London special, bearing date London thellth, says the Daily News’ correspondent at Bucharest reports a wholesale butchery of the Christians south of the Balkans by the Turkish troops, incited by the merchants and landed proprietors. In the Tchirpan district thirty churches and five hundred schools and colleges were burnt, and from twelve to fifteen thousand Bulgarian fugitives were massacred or burned in the houses. The Turkish Bey ruling the district was personally engaged in the work. 1 The account of the slaughter has been confirmed by_ the London Times, with harrowing details. . .. .. -,■) I THE INSCRIBED STOCKS BILL j PASSED. SIR JULIUS YOG-EL’S EXERTIONS PRAISED. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT, THE QUEEN’S SPEECH. ; [The following telegram was received at the New Zealand Times office, at twenty minutes past three o’clock this morning];— : London, August 14, 6.55 p.m. ; The Colonial Inscribed Stocks Bill has passed both, Houses of Parliament. ' Earl Carnarvon during the debate on its second reading in the House of Lords highly commended the exertions of Sir Julius Vogel. The Economist praises the Bill. ;■ Bombay, August 15,1.5 p.m. The Queen’s Speech at the prorogation of Parliament declared foreign relations to be friendly, but regretted that the efforts of her Majesty’s Government to maintain peace in Europe had been unsuccessful. It was the intention of Government to preserve, neutrality so long as British interests remained unaffected. ! The extent and nature of these interests had been defined in a diplomatic note to Russia, which had elicited a friendly reply. Efforts will be made when an opportunity occurs to restore peace in terms compatible with the honor of the belligerents, and the general safety and welfare of other nations. If during the contest British interests should be assailed or endangered, her Majesty relied with confidence on the help of Parliament to vindicate and maintain the national rights.

AUSTRALIAN. NEWS. ANOTHER .MAIL STEAMER WRECKED. THE CHINESE DIFFICULTY IN NORTH AUSTRALIA. A POLICE CAMP- STUCK UP AND ROBBED. : ~ • " Stuxev, Wednesday. The Eastern and Australian mail steamer Normanby has been stranded on:the Queensland coast. All hands were saved. Some Chinamen stuck up and robbed the police camp at the Palmer River,- and took two hundred pounds. The orderly in charge had his head and feet lashed to a post, with a rope round his neck, and his head in a hag. He was nearly killed. Two of the Chinamen have been arrested. The following is the new Ministry:—Robertson, Premier; Docker, Vice-President-of the Executive Council; Long, Treasurer; Garrett, Lands; Combes, Works; Baker, Mines; Dailey, Attorney-General; Lackey, Minister of Justice and Education; Davies, Postmaster-General